Being Dead - EELS ('Speckled Dragon Egg' Colour Vinyl)

Recommended if you like: Deerhoof, The Beets, Devo, Pixies, Cindy Lee, B-52s. Recorded & Produced by John Congleton. Being
Dead knows how to make an entrance, within the first several seconds of EELS, the duo’s new record, the bright, hard-strummed guitar
line on “Godzilla Rises” conjures cinematic immediacy, a creature emerging from the depths of the ocean in campy, freaky stop motion,
fittingly so. Being Dead’s records are mosaics, technicolor incantations, each song its own self-contained little universe. And while the
dreamlike EELS probes further into the depths of the duo Being Dead’s psyche, it is, most importantly, in the year of our lord 2024, a
16-track record that is genuinely unpredictable from one track to the next: a joyous and unexpected trip helmed by two true-blue freak
bitch besties holed up in a lil’ house in the heart of Austin, Texas. They decamped to Los Angeles for two weeks to record with
GRAMMY-winning producer John Congleton, writing songs for the record until days before they left. The radical shift in process was
welcome - a good balance and a challenge, Congleton helping them find new ways to work and helping peel back the layers on the
core of their songwriting. Being Dead has grown from a duo to a trio live, including bassist Ricky Motto (who is immortalized finally on
record here, particularly in the giggles on “Rock n’ Roll Hurts”). The resulting EELS is a darker record, tapped more into the
devilishness within, but it’s also a more raucous, rougher ride sonically