Being Dead Eels Purple Tree Fog Vinyl Edition

Purple Tree Fog Vinyl.Being Dead knows how to make an entrance - within the first several seconds of EELS, theduo's new record, the bright, hard-strummed guitar line on "Godzilla Rises" conjurescinematic immediacy, a creature emerging from the depths of the ocean in campy, freaky stopmotion, fittingly so. Being Dead's records are mosaics, technicolor incantations, each song itsown self-contained little universe. And while the dreamlike EELS probes further into thedepths of the duo Being Dead's psyche, it is, most importantly, in the year of our lord 2024, a16-track record that is genuinely unpredictable from one track to the next: a joyous andunexpected trip helmed by two true-blue freak bitch besties holed up in a lil' house in theheart of Austin, Texas.They decamped to Los Angeles for two weeks to record with GRAMMY-winning producerJohn Congleton, writing songs for the record until days before they left. The radical shift inprocess was welcome - a good balance and a challenge, Congleton helping them find newways to work and helping peel back the layers on the core of their songwriting. Being Deadhas grown from a duo to a trio live, including bassist Ricky Motto (who is immortalized finallyon 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 amore raucous, rougher ride sonically. There's heartbreak, excitement, enchantment, dancing -we move through it all at a high-octane pace. Falcon Bitch and Smoofy never want to do thesame thing twice on any song, and they don't. From the pummeling garage rock distortion of"Firefighters" to "Dragons II," which appears in its demo form taped on a hand recorder, it'sunexpected but intuitive, and, most importantly, singularly Being Dead.Like its animal namesake suggests, the songs on EELS are malleable, the record likeslithering through murky waters or strange half dreams, mysterious and beautiful in how itmoves, refle...