...according to our Phil on Wed 17 Jan, 2007.
Big Eyes return with their new album (Love is Gone Mad) and once more it is a thing of beauty with classical guitars and beautiful musical arrangements. It's less French coffee shop than last time and possibly it reminds me more of Dirty Three but it still sounds really European. Fantazimo.Second full-length album from the Leeds/Sheffield ensemble, explores the theme of love songs in all their many manifestations. Perhaps less experimental than its predecessors, but more visceral. "Big Eyes make music that's perfect to smudge your mascara to: velvety instrumentals streaked with unfurling string glassandos, droplets of Spanish guitar and the tears of a million broken hearts.
"Love Is Gone Mad comes on like a morphined-up Ennio Morricone, yet charms it's way into the inner ear with a beguiling beauty all it's own" [Amber Cowan, Sleazenation]
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