“The rawness of The Stooges, and the swagger of Primal Scream” SOLAR EYES unveil killer new single

BIRMINGHAM’s rocking psych-shockers SOLAR EYES tease September’s ‘Live Freaky! Die Freaky’ album with the release of the Charles Manson inspired single, ‘Murdering Hippies.’

“The sample at the start is one of the girls saying, ‘Charlie tells us to be beautiful, and he let us be beautiful,’” said Glenn Smyth (vocs/guitar), “But my favourite lyric is, ‘I’ve been praying to my god, he said just forget that witch.’ Dark and sinister yet written in a major key. But with the middle eight going to D Minor – for the ‘You saw me lose my mind bit.’ Sonically, I guess I was going for the rawness of The Stooges, and the swagger of Primal Scream.

“It was written during a blistering summers day in Skegness, with the caravan doors open and the cool fuzzy bass groove looping. It’s about the self-imposed psychological torment of being trapped inside the Manson cult. I was imagining I was desperate to escape but emotionally entangled with one of the girls. The song is about paranoia, drug-fuelled delusion, losing grip on reality, torn between love and survival, haunted by the knowledge that the person they love is capable of murder.”

Sebastian Maynard Francis (drums) completes the Solar Eyes duo, with ‘Live Freaky! Die Freaky’ recorded at Oxfordshire’s Courtyard Studio (previous home of Radiohead, Supergrass and Band of Skulls), co-produced by Ian Davenport, and mixed by long term collaborator Jeff Knowler.

SOLAR EYES live:

August 06: Islington Academy (with The Warlocks)

Sept 24: Supersonic Club, Paris

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