Drum Eyes - Gira Gira

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4...according to our Dave on Thu 12 Aug, 2010.

The love child of DJ Scotch Egg and the drummer from The Boredoms comes on like a seventh sense (cheers Mr. C!!) It doesn't actually come on like a seventh sense, it comes on like a hybrid of John Carpenter and some krautrock act. Its all atmosphere and minimalism one moment then quite heavy and grinding the next. It proper takes you into farthest reaches of space, takes off your brightly coloured space suit and leaves you with the most attractive alien girl you've ever seen.. Only once she falls under the sun's rays she turns into a multi headed, snarling creature that wants to eat your insides and cut off your head, scoop out the insides and give it back to your mother as a vase. It's production is fucking ace too. It's layered and quite mystical and primal. A healthy dose of madness from the Dr. they call Drum Eyes...

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* Set to be UTR's biggest album thus far, Drum Eyes is Shige (DJ Scotch Egg) and E-DA (The Boredoms) with a motley collection of other performers. Their stunning live show recently earned them a Gig Of The Week feature in NME.

* This is their debut album released on UTR and comes in high end digipack and limited colour vinyl with printed inner
sleeve.

* M EYES are DJ Scotch Egg's drum thunder worship gang. Experts at whipping up a hypnotic maelstrom of tribal
drumming trip-outs infused with sludgy doom and weird electronics. It makes a lot of sense that Eda from the Boredoms
is a member of Drum Eyes as the songs can twist 180 degrees and equally sound as beamed in from some alien
kingdom, taking the weirdest forms of krautrock and hurling punk synth ideas, crushing walls of ambience and 8-bit
frazzle into the mix with relish.

* With his five-piece band Shige has finally realized the full extent of his intent with Drum Eyes. The resultant album Gira
Gira pushes his musical vision to the limits and in scope is truly cosmic.

* ‘50-50’ starts out life as a dreamy ascending can-workout only before regenerating into organic flailing drum-off
computer wrangle. Of the two tracks from the album concerned with time travel ‘Future Police’ builds like a nightmare
Moroder adventure into the depths of a worried mind, whilst ‘Future Yakuza’ is a fairly malevolent blackened beast of a
metal track only lethargically transmitted from a unidentified solar system. It’s a real monster of a song, seeing Drum
Eyes make light work of 10 minutes, flashing bright with promise and reward they make the song a pivot of the record.

* The second half of the album boasts the more abstract wooziness of ‘Gyanza’ coming over as a more dreamy Black
Dice and the fuzzed out chilled dub moment of the album called ‘Hana B’, but it’s probably ’13 Magicians’ that leaves the
greatest impression. The song bristles with barren electronics, doom-drenched drums and guitars until drowning into
sirens and foghorns and emerging ever more victorious.

* It’s a real triumph of an album and finally sees DJ Scotch Egg make an album deserved of attention not only from his
loyal fan base but far and wide across the metal, ambient and electronic worlds of modern music, it’s an album that
obliterates genres with pride and grace, whilst remaining true in it’s identity and ability to lodge in your mind.

* For Fans Of: DJ Scotch Egg, Boredoms, Ruins, Melt Banana.

* TRACKLIST: 1. 50-50 2. Future Police 3. Future Yakuza 4. Gyanza 5. 13 Magicicans 6. Hana B

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