5 Songs For Sunday

5 Songs For Sunday

Eyes & No Eyes – ‘Hidden Thieves’

5 Songs For Sunday. UK-based band Eyes & No Eyes have just released their self-titled debut album on 31st March. ‘Hidden Thieves’ is a prime example of their sound, which instantly brings to mind the adventurous style of This Heat with a stronger pop influence. Eyes & No Eyes are also quite unique for their use of the cello in a rock context. They’re playing a few UK shows in the coming months, so keep an eye out for that.

Krokofant – ‘Bodega’

There are a lot of exciting things happening in Scandinavia musically. One of them is Krokofant, a Norway-based power trio that experiments with jazz and prog metal sounds. If you think there’s no way it can work, think again. It’s obvious they have listened quite a lot to bands like The Mahavishnu Orchestra and King Crimson, but they are taking it a whole step further, with more aggressiveness and funk thrown into the mix. Their debut album came out last month on Rune Grammofon.

Christopher Owens – ‘It Comes Back To You’

The ex-Girls’ frontman Christopher Owens will soon be back with a brand new album of his own. ‘It Comes Back To You’ is the first song he’s unveiled from the record, and if you liked ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost’, you’ll certainly love this. It has the same slightly melancholic sound, and the organ probably has something to do with it.

Jack White – ‘Lazaretto’

Jack White’s solo debut ‘Blunderbuss’ two years ago was startlingly good, and it looks like ‘Lazaretto’, which is due on 10th June via Third Man, won’t disappoint either. The title track has ‘Blunderbuss’ written all over it, only fuzzier, groovier and with the addition of strangely rousing strings. And then there are the lyrics, in which White refers to God as a woman and serves more of his typically frenzied lyrics: “My veins are blue and connected, and every single bone in my brain is electric”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYF0LtfUvJs

The Roots – ‘When The People Cheer’

How long can a band ‘deliver’ before they run out of ideas? I don’t have the answer, but I know for sure The Roots still deliver more than 20 years after their debut. Their eleventh studio album ‘…And Then You Shoot Your Cousin’ comes out in a few weeks and the anticipation is palpable. Even more so since they revealed the song ‘When The People Cheer’, a lovely piano ballad with an incredible hook. And then there’s Black Thought’s legendary flow.

Brice Detruche

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