Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink
Bodies of Water started in David and Meredith's closet. They were newly married and lived in a very small house. The closet was the only place to put the computer that they used to record songs. They were content doing this for a while but eventually decided to send these songs out into the world. The first step was to form a musical group. Meredith had never played a piano before but she was willing to give it a shot. She had known Kyle for a decade or so and he decided to try playing the bass. Jessie was a new friend from Arizona who was making a big splash in LA. They all thought that since she was a gifted dancer she would make a good drummer, and so Jessie learned to drum.
'Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink' is their first record (and the first release from their Thousand Tongues label). The songs draw on an admixture of traditions; the transcendent intensity of gospel, brutish gusto of punk rocking, earnest idiosyncrasy of American folk, sonic inclusiveness of tropicalia, planned jamming of prog, and the sincere bombast of musical theatre. These songs can be likened to a sort of emotional topiary; an unruly living mess lent its shape by the psychic framework around which it grows.
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"...what a cycle of songs...This rampagingly assured disc is humiliating to merely discuss via laptop." - Pitchfork Media (8.2 Rating)
"Bodies Of Water have cultivated (as in, grown from mere seeds) an album of almost unbearable beauty." - Said the Gramophone
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