![]() ![]() The band have built up a cult following, selling out gigs across the UK, as well as gaining support from 6 Music and Radio One. The Lovely Eggs have been nudging towards a heavier sound with their previous album This Is Our Nowhere, which was praised by the NME, who called them 'One of the country's most beloved underground bands.' Having formed in Paris in 2006, they named themselves after a pigeon laid two eggs on an abandoned nest on the windowsill.To celebrate their 10th anniversary last year, they reissued their first three albums on coloured vinyl. We still write about everyday life and the stuff that goes on in our world, it's just the new album is more fierce'. It kind of sounds like a chip shop on fire. It's much heavier than anything they've done before. The result is a gratifyingly rich sounding record, which still retains the raw energy of the band's sound but harnesses a real power and dynamism. They then went out to Dave's Studio in New York State, for mixing. It was just totally bizarre!' The album was self-recorded at Lancaster Musician's Co-op and the Eggs'own house. He had got our answerphone message, listened to our stuff and wanted to work with us. 'We received an email from Dave Fridmann. It's a bit like the Twin Peaks of Great Britain.' The town has a rich history of the witchcraft, notoriously it was where the Pendle witches were hanged'.įor the first time ever, the pair worked with a producer on the new album, welcoming in legendary Grammy award winning engineer Dave Fridmann to their world. As Holly explains 'On this album we're saying it's OK to live life differently, we're doing it and you can do it too! 'Living up here in Lancaster is kind of mad. They have also remained in their hometown of Lancaster, despite its cultural and geographical isolation. Since having their son in 2013, the pair have taken him on tour with them, racing round the UK with 2 fingers up to conventional family life firmly out of the window. The album is about being an outsider and doing things differently, eschewing society's conventions as they have done. It is a comment on the current state of modern Britain. The album title is a cheeky nod to Shane Meadows'series, This Is England. They create their own world and invite us to join them in Eggland. Working with a producer for the very first time, Dave Fridmann ( Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips) lends his magic dust to bring out the best of The Lovely Eggs'explosive blend of motoric krautrock, 60s psychedelia and punk rock attitude. Heavier and more in-your-face than anything they've done previously, Holly Ross (guitar/vocals) and David Blackwell (drums) bring together a fierce DIY ethos, surreal sense of humour and kitchen-sink realism. The Lovely Eggs are one of the most unique, innovative and genuine bands on the British Underground music scene. “I Shouldn’t Have Said That”, the pummeling psych diptych “Return of Witchcraft” and “Witchcraft”, and every other corner of Eggland find them in their sweet spot: blunt pop purity bolstered by Big Muff pedals and a sense of not-quite-reckless abandon.Northern psychedelic punks The Lovely Eggs return with a mind-melting new album. ![]() Such instances of new-fangled (for the band) ear-poking don't interfere, but augment what the Lovely Eggs do best. ![]() The praises of repetition are sung even more overtly on “Repeat It”, and an 8-bit keyboard cycle reminiscent of Grandaddy’s “The Crystal Lake” winds around the chorus of “Big Sea”. A techno-like loop of the title plainly spoken goes into orbit around the Sarah Records-on-steroids single, and one has to at least commend their commitment to testing the limits of its catchiness. They keep the strobing trick going on the next track, “Wiggy Giggy”. ![]() Novel production techniques come out right away on “Hello I Am Your Sun” with the stereo panning on Ross’ isolated opening vocals. The Lovely Eggs are still raw, but This is Eggland stacks up layers of rawness, creating the sonic illusion of a band twice their size. The results seem evident only in hindsight. The man who has been at the helm of richly textured modern classics by bands such as Mercury Rev, the Flaming Lips and Mogwai seems an unlikely candidate to work with an unassuming guitar-and-drums garage punk duo, but perhaps the change of pace was part of the lure. The latest twist in their quirky saga is the surprise appearance of Dave Fridmann in the role of producer on This is Eggland. ![]()
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