Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Eagle*Seagull

Your Beauty Is a Knife I Turn My Throat On
Photograph
Death Could Be at the Door

I just heard this band and my ears dropped the extraneous noise it was holding and zeroed in on what was coming out of the speakers.

A seven piece straight out of Lincoln, Nebraska - Eagle*Seagull



The vocals immediately make you think of Robert Smith, Win Butler, and then Isaac Brock. The music also sounds like their respective bands. It's not derivative though - it is its own thing. Bright, yet brooding. Sad, but optimistic in some odd way. Loose, but controlled.

It features great instrumentation without that feeling that they raided the miscellaneous closet in the recording studio. With seven members they are able to create a very thick sound, but will cut it back for the correct effect.

"Photograph" is currently my favorite of these three. It's epic and gorgeous and really works the uptempo feel to its favor in the first half of the song. And then the vocals leading the end are just the right way to end the song.

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