Band : The Flying Eyes
Album Title : Done so Wrong
Label : Trip In Time
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux.
Release Date : 18/03/2011
Review : CD

Guitar driven hard rock with a drummer that just smacks the living shit out of the skins. Crunchy distorted guitar leads and steady beats make this one great release. The Flying Eyes churn ahead with a thick-riffed sound, buoyed with fuzzy guitars and charismatic vocals. Vocally it is slightly similar to Jim Morisson of The Doors in places. Will Kelly has a well suited voice for this style of psych retro rock. He, like the band, harkens back to all things ‘70s without sounding derivative of anyone specific. If I didn’t know better, Done So Wrong could be an unearthed classic from 1970, from the production on down to the vocals and riffs. Besides which, the band can do it all, straight ahead bulldozers (“Death don’t make me cry”, “Poison the well” , “Heavy heart”), country (“Sundrop”, “Nowhere to run”), space rock (“Done so wrong”) and an introspective Neil Young-inspired song (“Leave it all behind”)

The Flying Eyes are criminally underrated on a global scale. Done So Wrong is proof of that The Doors, Black Keys, Danzig, Black Angels and The Rolling Stones fans need to search this one out – you’ll not regret it.

90/100

Cosmicmasseur.