In a bumper news day for Leeds band Eades they announce second album Final Sirens Call set for release on 18th September via new label home Breakfast Records. To celebrate the 5-piece have released new single ‘Did You Read The News?’ and confirmed an October headline tour. A lot has changed for Eades since the release of their debut album 2022’s Delusion Spree, not least the growth in the storytelling partnership between lead vocalists Harry Jordan and Tom O’Reilly.
The titular question of the lead single ‘Did You Read The News?’ became a way for lyricist O’Reilly to reflect on not only their disappearing self, but also their very identity as a musician, and the socio-political anger that so often bubbled to the surface in their early work. As O’Reilly states:
“’Did You Read The News?’ is about living on autopilot, floating through the day to day of life without letting the constantly changing world have a significant impact on me. That being said, when writing these lyrics, I did set myself the goal of writing something more melody driven, with the lyrical narrative taking a back seat. Treating the verses as almost their own chorus, and not slipping into the creative hole of trying to force everything to be an attempt at a profound piece of writing. Sometimes the shape of the words can convey a more important feeling than the written content.”
Beyond this songwriting growth, the last year also saw Eades find a new home in Bam Bam studios, owned and operated by Jordan himself. With a new professional space, and ever-growing arsenal of production equipment, the band found themselves for the first time able to keep up with their recording ambitions. Jordan, helming production on the new single, shares:
“A lot has changed for us as a band since making our first album. We’ve grown as people as well as a band and we feel much more assured on who we are and what we are trying to create. This is the first time we’ve been able to work in a professional recording environment which has given us the freedom to expand our sound and think about our arrangement from a fresh perspective. For the first time we brought our friends Tom Kettleton and Simon Skitch to play saxophone and harmonica which has helped take our sound further than before. This is something we have experimented with a lot across the album and this new direction is something we are really proud of. There’s a lot of statement tracks and we can’t wait to release them out into the world.”
Eades Live Dates
May
23 – London, CloseUp Festival
July
11 – King’s Lynn, Festival Too
Headline Tour
October
14 – Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s
15 – Birmingham, The Victoria
16 – London, Old Blue Last
18 – Bristol, Rough Trade
November
27 – Leeds, The Brudenell Social Club
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