Psych-shocking duo Solar Eyes start UK tour this week - new single 'I See The Sun' out now!

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14 Oct

Written By PR@Click Roll Boom

SOLAR EYES START UK TOUR THIS WEEK!

NEW SINGLE ‘I SEE THE SUN’ OUT NOW

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

‘LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY!’ NEW ALBUM OUT NOW VIA FIERCE PANDA RECORDS (ORDER HERE)

SOLAR EYES, the psych-shocking, sonics-rocking duo from Birmingham, are primed to hit the road in support of their recently released and critically acclaimed album ‘Live Freaky! Die Freaky!’ through Fierce Panda Records (“psychedelic indie dance music with a twinkle in its eye,” said The Arts Desk and “a bold and dizzying album which should see Solar Eyes climbing into the next level,” said Louder Than War).

Kicking off at East London’s Old Blue Last this coming October 15th and winding up in Paris at the Supersonic Club on the 24th, expect shimmering melodies and pulsating beats a go-go. To celebrate this, the band have acid dropped another single from the album, optimistically titled ‘I See The Sun’.

“So, this is an old song that set me on the journey of writing this album,” explains vocalist and guitarist Glenn Smyth. “It started as a love letter to my daughter. Working out we’re in this together until my end. But then Jeff Knowler, our mixer heard it as a rough demo and was like ‘you should record that’ – after watching ‘Once upon a time in Hollywood’ - I love Tarantino, so then it went from there. I became obsessed with Manson and the book ‘Chaos’. Then this whole album came on the back of that.

“As it goes, I read that book, because Tarantino suggested – when asked about how he wrote the film. I guess the song taps into the spaghetti western, dusty vibe – but a song I’m very proud of.”

Watch the ‘I See The Sun’ video HERE

Recorded at Courtyard Studio in Oxfordshire (home of Radiohead, Supergrass and Band of Skulls over the years), the album was co-produced by Ian Davenport and mixed by long term collaborator Jeff Knowler. The end result sees Solar Eyes take the Spaghetti Junction Western vibes of their debut and add in darker, broader, bleaker shades of ragged glory. Smyth himself uses words like 'sinister', 'brutal' and 'vicious' to describe the lyrical themes, for this is an album about heroes lost in battle, an album which squints at the dark side of the West Coast sun, an album influenced by The Doors, The Stooges, BRMC, Ennio Morricone, The Velvet Underground and even a touch of Charlie Manson himself on closer ‘Hello Charlie’.

'Live Freaky! Die Freaky!' then. A warped way of life, and then some.

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