Being Dead / EELS
Album: | EELS | Collection: | A-File | |
Artist: | Being Dead | Added: | Oct 2024 | |
Label: | Bayonet Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2024-10-19 | Pull Date: | 2025-01-18 |
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Week Ending: | Dec 8 | Dec 1 | Nov 24 | Nov 17 | Nov 10 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Dec 05, 2024: | elemenohps & qs
Love Machine |
4. | Nov 19, 2024: | Phone Scam
Godzilla Rises |
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2. | Nov 30, 2024: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles
Rock N' Roll Hurts |
5. | Nov 16, 2024: | where's my snail?
Firefighters |
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3. | Nov 21, 2024: | Comes to Mind
Big Bovine |
6. | Nov 14, 2024: | Oh Messy Life
Blanket of My Bone |
Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2024-10-19
Reviewed 2024-10-19
Fantastic weirdo-freak jangly sugar-pop rock goofy twee catchy catchy catchy stuff out of Austin; Being Dead is a duo, Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy (co-ed), who (with help from their occasional third member, bassist Nicole) creates weird soundscapes that sound like a whole deranged army… every song is very much its own thing, intricate, rich arrangements with so many vocal timbres; FCC clean… play anything, but some are nichier short pieces that fit into larger suites;
RIYL everything from post-punk to post-punk influences (grass widow), to fuzzy garage rock, to twee stuff… hard to say, it’s a weird stew that’s hard to pin down
1. (2:47) ****** Nice driving intro, singalong back-and-forth male/female vox, a love song to Godzilla… sweet and tender and jangly and rocking and weird, great hooks; glassy torch song vox at end, wild stuff
2. (3:33) ***** Spoken-word intro, into slightly mathy chant-y rock beat, monotone about office line drone, with spacier/kookier chorus; ends on a “Van Gogh” soft stinger
3. (3:13) **** Rocking, insistent intro, keeps on this mode until a spacier, bliss-y, slow chorus; your head in the clouds, kinda early 2010s-nostalgia psyche
4. (3:41) ****** Minor-key mid-tempo strumming into doom-y psyche-y chanting…. resolves a minute in into sunshiney hippie bliss, syruppy weekend bliss; then back into nightmare neurotic doom about “PROBLEMS”
5. (4:30) ******* Fast fuzzy rockin beat… spooky angular vox and sounds; very Grass Widow, keeps at its sugar-high spooky drive, tambourine resolution with a minute left… slows down and chills out, slow ending
6. (2:00) *** medieval-influenced folk little tune, sour male vox into sweet fem vox
7. (2:55) ***** nearly a capella opening, haunting and simple; into straightforward rock groove, snarly vox, with occasionally glitch-tune accompaniment; great hooks (sorta-near-fcc: “bitch”, fwiw)
8. (2:17) ** Spacey noodly guitar and whatever in slow groove for a while, ghost-y warbly vox eventually join; pretty minor
9. (2:49) ***** insistent math-y keyboard-driven beat, spooky vox, cuts into chorus which is goofier and slow and foot-stomping, into bizarre cowboy-inflected little song, then back and forth; weird stuff
10. (0:33) ** Short, sweet synthy glitchy little instrumental
11. (1:49) **** Fast, funky mathy squeaky dance (??) song, cartoony; really hooky though; weirdly ends with the same cowboy refrain as #9, heh
12. (2:08) ***** noodly intro with some weird computer sfx, into a doo-woppy little sweet song about “rock and roll hurts”, with some weird noise… cuts into them breaking up and laughing while singing, infectious; sudden ending
13. (2:03) ***** jangly fast wistful start-stop, gets all tangled up, great hooks
14. (1:00) **** very short, but beautiful little bedroom fem vox pop ballad, muffled to hell, pretty
15. (3:36) ***** stompy folk-pop intro, call-and-response ballad, glassy sweet fem vox add real buoyancy; chorus nightmarish, breaking into waves of sunshiney reassurance; eventual grand conflict into pure radiance
16. (0:46) * small little MIDI tune, lol
RIYL everything from post-punk to post-punk influences (grass widow), to fuzzy garage rock, to twee stuff… hard to say, it’s a weird stew that’s hard to pin down
1. (2:47) ****** Nice driving intro, singalong back-and-forth male/female vox, a love song to Godzilla… sweet and tender and jangly and rocking and weird, great hooks; glassy torch song vox at end, wild stuff
2. (3:33) ***** Spoken-word intro, into slightly mathy chant-y rock beat, monotone about office line drone, with spacier/kookier chorus; ends on a “Van Gogh” soft stinger
3. (3:13) **** Rocking, insistent intro, keeps on this mode until a spacier, bliss-y, slow chorus; your head in the clouds, kinda early 2010s-nostalgia psyche
4. (3:41) ****** Minor-key mid-tempo strumming into doom-y psyche-y chanting…. resolves a minute in into sunshiney hippie bliss, syruppy weekend bliss; then back into nightmare neurotic doom about “PROBLEMS”
5. (4:30) ******* Fast fuzzy rockin beat… spooky angular vox and sounds; very Grass Widow, keeps at its sugar-high spooky drive, tambourine resolution with a minute left… slows down and chills out, slow ending
6. (2:00) *** medieval-influenced folk little tune, sour male vox into sweet fem vox
7. (2:55) ***** nearly a capella opening, haunting and simple; into straightforward rock groove, snarly vox, with occasionally glitch-tune accompaniment; great hooks (sorta-near-fcc: “bitch”, fwiw)
8. (2:17) ** Spacey noodly guitar and whatever in slow groove for a while, ghost-y warbly vox eventually join; pretty minor
9. (2:49) ***** insistent math-y keyboard-driven beat, spooky vox, cuts into chorus which is goofier and slow and foot-stomping, into bizarre cowboy-inflected little song, then back and forth; weird stuff
10. (0:33) ** Short, sweet synthy glitchy little instrumental
11. (1:49) **** Fast, funky mathy squeaky dance (??) song, cartoony; really hooky though; weirdly ends with the same cowboy refrain as #9, heh
12. (2:08) ***** noodly intro with some weird computer sfx, into a doo-woppy little sweet song about “rock and roll hurts”, with some weird noise… cuts into them breaking up and laughing while singing, infectious; sudden ending
13. (2:03) ***** jangly fast wistful start-stop, gets all tangled up, great hooks
14. (1:00) **** very short, but beautiful little bedroom fem vox pop ballad, muffled to hell, pretty
15. (3:36) ***** stompy folk-pop intro, call-and-response ballad, glassy sweet fem vox add real buoyancy; chorus nightmarish, breaking into waves of sunshiney reassurance; eventual grand conflict into pure radiance
16. (0:46) * small little MIDI tune, lol
Track Listing
1. | Godzilla Rises (2:47) | 9. | Big Bovine (2:49) | |||
2. | Van Goes (3:33) | 10. | Storybook Bay (0:33) | |||
3. | Blanket of My Bone (3:13) | 11. | Ballerina (1:49) | |||
4. | Problems (3:41) | 12. | Rock N' Roll Hurts (2:08) | |||
5. | Firefighters (4:30) | 13. | Love Machine (2:03) | |||
6. | Dragons Ii (2:00) | 14. | I Was a Tunnel (1:00) | |||
7. | Nightvison (2:55) | 15. | Goodnight (3:36) | |||
8. | Gazing at Footwear (2:17) | 16. | Lilypad Lane (0:46) |