Podcast 5 (Featuring Thee Moths, eagleowl and Sans Trauma
By Milo | August 31, 2008
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Thee Moths – Don’t Let the Crows Take Your Eyes
“It’s
time to end. Thee Moths has been around in many forms for almost 8
years. Over 55 releases and hundreds of songs I’ve said all I can say
with the project.” So sayeth Alex Botten, the man behind Thee Moths and
countless other underground indie bands over the last 20 years, as
detailed in his tragi-comic self-published book Hanging Around,
available from Lulu.com (well worth a read for insights into the
Dundee and Birmingham music scenes, and the strange workings of
Botten’s own mind). This track is from a recent avian-themed
download-only EP, ‘Sparrows and more Sparrows’, and It’s a strange, sad
track, and suitably so, given that it’s quite possibly inspired by one
of the more brutal deaths in Omen II, and has a prescient feeling,
perhaps foreshadowing the end that was to come. But not to worry,
because Botten is continuing along the feathered friends theme with new
project Wings and Claws.
Eagleowl – Blanket
This
song sums up why Eagleowl are so damn perfect – the name couldn’t be
more suitable for a song that envelops you in warm fuzziness, and
allows you to drift off into a melancholy, untroubled state of
consciousness. And with it’s mournful violins, warmly comforting double
bass, and delicately played guitars and gorgeous, understated
harmonies, Blanket is one dream you won’t want to wake up from. The
track is from their new EP ‘For the Thoughts You Never Had’ which they
are launching as part of the Retreat! anti-festival in Edinburgh during
August, as previewed elsewhere this issue.
Sans Trauma – The Day I Woke Up
Sans
Trauma are a sleeping giant of the Scottish music scene whose time must
surely be about to come. And like a giant that’s woken up on the wrong
side of the bed, realising he’s wasted too much time, this epic
masterpiece wades ferociously through the listener’s psyche, leaving
huge footprints. Live, the band layer shoegaze guitars with krautrock
rhythms and post-rock violence, building whispers of lyrics and
modulating, fuzzed up guitar into monolithic soundscapes, that judder
off instinctively into different directions at the most unexpected
moments.
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