Alternate Piranha takes 5 of the songs from Eamon The Destroyers We'll Be Piranhas album reworking them into some quite stunning and timely songs. Eamon The Destroyer are one of Scotland's more enigmatic famenonymous acts but are well worth discovering on the ever-intriguing Edinburgh based Bearsuit records.
Th ep opens with the organ cadences of A Pewter Wolf as hushed tones are driven home with droning guitars, the sun gets away from them, claustrophobia of love becomes too much, within a soft-core interlude they find the car keys, helping them back to the ocean once more, the sound of heavy guitars, bowed strings wait for us to hear them call out, letting Roger Whitaker's clone whistle over the closing harp and strings.
Rope (Alternate Take) opens in a early 70's horror film setting, something unsettling has happened, catching a glimpse of the picture, the unplugged phone, you are moving out, a perfect tune for an evil crook being evicted from office, like I had been saving this song to review the day of the biggest tory defeat ever, easily worth using this song to soundtrack a video of Tories stalking away to oblivion, the sad tones of despair, you consider swinging from that rope with Truss bewildered eyes, over the elegiac coda.
A Call Coming (Alternate Mix) lets you know that call is coming, to force you out, this home is not yours anymore, slow organ and backing vocal gymnastic backing, driven into pits of pain, need for your permanent exile from this place. Call in the movers it's time to leave this place, no more Downing Street, or in the case of the song, love nest for you, squalling guitars accompany your exit.
The Choirmaster (Alternate take) has bleeping whooshing synths with slow brass sweeping them into one of We'll Be Piranhas best songs, this mix has an odd claustrophobia binding them into The Choirmasters realm. Fairground organ clashes with industrial strength guitars, before being sublimated into some beatific bucolic wonderland.
The ep closes with My Stars (Alternate Take) guitar solo streaks across the speakers as the explanation of the Stars begin sustaining us on a stellar journey.
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