The Flying Eyes Release Burning of the Season this Month; Stream “Sing Praise”
Usually I might like to make it deeper into a record than the third track before I add it to my ongoing list of the year’s best releases, but with my initial impression of The Flying Eyes‘ fourth full-length, Burning of the Season, which I have on for the very first time as I type this, the truth is I barely made it that far. Set for issue via Ripple Music and preceded by the stream of the track “Sing Praise” which you can hear at the bottom of this post, Burning of the Season is one I’ve been waiting on for a while, as the Baltimorean four-piece tracked it in Brazil with Gabriel Zander in 2016 and it’s been four years since their last proper album, Lowlands (review here), came out in 2013.
Of course, they’ve been plenty busy since then, touring in South America and Europe multiple times over, putting out shorter releases like the Poison the Well 7″ (discussed here) and this year’s split with Lazlo Lee and the Motherless Children, but golly it’s good to have a new record from them on the way. Like, really good. Like, one of the best albums of 2017 good.
Art and details follow via the PR wire:
THE FLYING EYES – Burning of the Season – New album on Ripple Music | Released 22 September 2017
With a name taken from a 1962 science fiction novel about giant, disembodied eyes that descend from space to control humanity, Baltimore’s The Flying Eyes are a heavy psychedelic rock band with a difference.
Primarily operating as an organ drenched, blues riffed rock’n’roll outfit of wayfaring journeymen, with a driven, hard rock sound; thunderous drums and distorted guitar leads The Flying Eyes have been compared in recent times to Blue Cheer, Hawkwind and Dead Meadow.
In 2007 they founded Farm Fest, a DIY music festival in Maryland which ran for six years and featured the likes of Black Moth Super Rainbow, Celebration and White Hills among many others. Yet hardly strangers to the stage themselves, since their formation over ten years ago they have supported the likes of The Raveonettes, The Black Angels and Dan Auerbach, and achieved an impressive following in Europe with extensive club touring. Not to mention countless festival appearances at Burg Herzberg Festival, Rockpalast Crossroads, DesertFest (Belgium) and the Synchronicity Festival in India.
Produced last year by Gabriel Zander (Mars Red Sky) at Super Fuzz Studio in Rio de Janeiro while on tour in South America, Burning of the Season is a return to the band’s roots of fuzzed-out blues and soulful psychedelia and is released on 22nd September 2017 through Ripple Music.
Track Listing:
1. Sing Praise
2. Come Round
3. Drain
4. Circle of Stone
5. Fade Away
6. Farewell
7. Rest Easy
8. Oh Sister
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