Eades announce new EP Fight or Flight set for release on 14 August via their own label Bam Bam Records and in celebration of the news release new single ‘Liquid Gold’. The vocals in this track bounce off of the lackadaisical guitars. Transatlantic influences pervade the five-piece’s classic indie sound, glued together by the song-writing and vocal swapping partnership of Harry Jordan and Tom O’Reilly. O’Reilly shares more on the lyrical process which began during the pandemic:
“Ahhh lockdown 1… such a trepidatious cocktail of seclusion and hopefulness. Everyone started to nervously ask the big questions: ‘how long will this actually last?’ / ‘when will they reopen the pubs? The beer gardens?’ / ‘Will we be arrested for exercising too long in the park?’.
I suppose it’s no surprise I had a look back at some fond memories of leaving a friends house hungover, making my way though the blinding height of summer, passing friends in a beer garden or a park and joining for a half that became many more than the one half.
I didn’t realise it at the time, but it was a reflection on longing, I was yearning for simplicity, companionship and a time before uncertainty. It’s a simple song with a simple message; join your mates for that drink in a beer garden, you never quite know when the next pandemic might be.”
Working on their own terms Eades are putting theory into practice. Comfortable in their own skin, and taking the wins as they come, there’s no lack of ambition to take their riveting concoctions to the masses. All of this is beholden to a quietly confident maturation that speaks to a band in complete control.
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