“Eels” is the second studio album by American rock band Being Dead. It was released on September 27th, 2024, through Bayonet Records. Arriving over a year after their debut studio album “When Horses Would Run”, the album was met with universal acclaim from critics. The trio, consisting of Juli Keller, Cody Dosier and Nicole Roman-Johnston, was formed in Austin, Texas. Their music seems “bare-bones”, it includes a variety of “unexpected” instruments, such as “Mellotron, banjo, Casio drums”. With a recurring theme throughout the record was “motion” as it is “constantly changing” and “speeding along”.
Being Dead knows how to make an entrance – within the first several seconds of “Eels”, the duo’s new record, the bright, hard-strummed guitar line on “Godzilla Rises” conjures cinematic immediacy, a creature emerging from the depths of the ocean in campy, freaky stop motion, fittingly so. Being Dead’s records are mosaics, technicolour incantations, each song its own self-contained little universe. And while the dreamlike “Eels” probes further into the depths of the Being Dead’s psyche, it is, most importantly, in the 16-track record that is genuinely unpredictable from one track to the next: a joyous and unexpected trip helmed by two true-blue freak bitch besties holed up in a lil’ house in the heart of Austin, Texas.
The bands ability of “writing great songs” but to push their music into “interesting, unexpected places”. “Eels” is a compilation of “sharp zig-zags and even sharper hooks”
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