| CD REVIEW The Flying Eyes |
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Band : The Flying Eyes Will Kelly, Adam Bufano, Marc Hewitt and Elias Shutzman have the rock star attitude and look to go far in the charts. It would easy to dismiss The Flying Eyes as another bunch of yuppie garage rock wannabes. Imagine the musical talents of The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Black Angels and you can begin to understand what you’ll find on this album. The opening track "Lay with me” features a swampy Jon Spencer style nerve wrecking guitar riff against a memorable Ray Manzarek-like organ and a head-nodding drum. Will Kelly has a quirky Morrison/Danzig voice that is instantly likeable and full of character. The keyboard pipes remind me a bit of the old 60’s rock bands in a way, but modernized to some extent. “Bad blood”, “She comes to me” and “Around the bend” share a laid back psych feeling that recalls The Cult, Fraction and more recent Black Mountain, Sleepy Sun and Wooden Shjips. Difficult to pick out highlights on an album where each song contains several of its own, but "King of nowhere" which floats like a strangled Bob Dylan spinn-off, "Don’t point your God at me” a catchy groovy song Danzig never wrote, the thrilling "Red sheets" with a Blue Cheer-ish clash of thumping bass and screeching guitars, sound fantastic. 92/100 Cosmicmasseur. |