Artist - Eulogies
Album - Here Anonymous
Label - Dangerbird
LA-based band Eulogies make the kind of music that isn’t immediately apparently great.
On this second album, there are two perfect songs – This Fine Progression (like Grizzly Bear but better) and Two Can Play (with Nikki from Silversun Pickups) – that are both improved when played live and acoustic.
Elsewhere, the songs progress nicely enough, but without stirring either passion or interest. However, there is the slightly uncomfortable thought that this is because you’re not listening well enough.
If all you had heard was those two songs, you might have been of the view that the best new band of the year had arrived – the voice is vulnerably lovely, the playing tightly right and the feel is comfortably laid back. Unfortunately for the album, it pads them out.
If Peter Walker can manage to write more great tunes, you should keep tabs on Eulogies.
Rating 6/10
Mike Rea
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