Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is the second album by Birmingham's Solar Eyes, the duo of Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis recorded at the Courthouse studios in Oxfordshire.
The album opens by Murdering Hippies! Which may be a particularly negative opener, but the way this works to make clear all the problems they have, while claiming that you need a real man, obviously one of the ones in the Jazz Butcher's Real Men who inevitably come from hell, the loose backing help you to lose your mind and let the guitars re-arrange your brain.
Time Waits For No One not even the lovers of dance rock with an Alabama 3 style twist to it, the rapped vocals make totally clear why Time isn't gonna wait for you to make up your mind.
Set The Night On Fire come on baby let them behave like Jim, on one last endless session, they chase you all over the place in search of totally intense fun, they will be yours if you're up for the same fun they are, this has the feel on an urgent rush to it.
A Couple of Kisses is a bittersweet duet for the star-crossed lovers, one of whom leaves the party far too soon, the regrets for not being able to remain forever in each other's arms, the need to dance in the rain together and get up to no good, the regrets that you won't be there for more adventures.
Your Love Is Like A Drug I should hope so too, it's just about, if it's a good or bad drug trip they are on with your love, from the sound of this song it's some downers, the sort of drug that makes you more introverted and questioning of everything that's happening, at least it hasn't made them paranoid yet, even if they want to see car crash movies with you like Heaven's Gate. No matter how bad you make them feel, like you've given them some slightly off cold turkey sandwiches to eat.
Speedball Lover makes you want to love her, but you know that if you really let her into your life, her love for those speedballs will destroy you and everything you've worked for, in one insane drug rush.
No Rider On The Horse was according to the album cover meant to have been the last song, still this gallops out of the gate like it knows just how to push all your buttons and make it across the finish line in double quick time, despite the need for a rider to let you win.
Rubick's Cube is the thing you play with to calm your nerves, trying to figure out how to move on without you, you were they're Rubick's Cube, never quite lining up properly, the dark reverb of despair never leaves your side.
I See The Sun has a blasted western soundtrack feel, for two lovers riding into that piercing sun, they try to work out getting things to work, without all the trauma and drama, so they can ride off into the sunset for eternity.
Mr Magpie almost has a Jefferson Airplane feel to this song of love and loss, you may end up swaying along with this, like it's a sad forlorn ballad for a lover who never seems to want to stay more than a night or two, before flying off again.
An Eagle Flies Alone soaring high in the sky, like the sixties guitar lines, a fight has broken out and all sorts of violent imagery flies by, whatever happens they will always have their pride, holding on to the hope that the eagle may land sometime soon.
The album closes with Hello Charlie that may be a close relative of the reggae classic Go Call Charlie, only this is hushed acoustic reverie, for someone becoming reacquainted with Charlie your old friend, after a period of separation from Charlie and all he does for his family, no more is life a whirlwind now you've come clean.
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