We'll Be Piranha's Remixes is as it suggests, an album of remixes of Eamon The Destroyers classic second album, the songs have been worked on by some infamous underground remixers, who only took the job due to Eamon's powers of persuasion, that and the dossier of embarrassing info he keeps in his Leith Garret. Who knows what had on Senji Niban, Michael Valentine West, Elkeyes, Ryota Mikami, Societe Cantine, TURMO, The Orkly Kid and 15PhD. I have re-mixed by original album review.
The album opens with A Pewter Wolf-Senji Niban Remix that has a cinematic edge lyrically, ambient drones are decorated with oddly distracted percussion, with a flavour of Japanese folk opera strings being added by Senji.
Underscoring The Blues-Societe Cantine remix has stripped back lush strings with spoken word vocals in a thick Scottish brogue, before it goes all stop start, odd female sampled vocals fighting against an rising brass section, skittery drum and bass weirdness, bells chime settling the score with the string section and Glockenspiel finale.
Rope-Elkeyes Remix has ambient synths making what's happened to the road bridge seem all the more drastic, brass with skittery percussive distortions, thoughts of a golden age fly by, encased in all sorts of filthy language and sounds, that when they are stripped away feels like the soundtrack to a seedy 70's Italian horror porno, where the damsel holds onto the cut rope while wearing almost no clothes to the Binaural brass outro that has echoes of The Bells.
We'll Be Piranhas, In A Daydream 15 Phd- Remix has an accordion intro, gauzy glitch folk going in all sorts of directions, crepuscular fading sounds, edging towards the Piranhas swimming around looking for lunch.
A Call Coming- The Orkly Kid remix is the music you need at the ready for the next cold caller, it will put them off the script in no time at all, odd tones and distracted synths work around the vocals, telling us about a home that's no longer your home anymore, you're out in the cold once more. Those strings send you shivering to the kerb. Distracted from reality by out of sync synths, abstracted reality of noises and candles and an old typewriter tapping away.
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The weird glitchy The Choirmaster Michael Valentine West Remix, strips out the classical elements, making it far more post-punk, vocals have been filtered through some weird effects, this twitches with paranoia for what the Choirmaster might do after practise, with several twists we leave the normal world far behind, becoming like a Disco Inferno (band not song) for the 2020's.
Sonny Said TURMO remix carries on in the 70's Italian soundtrack vein, with the strings getting more intense, glitchy interludes help Sonny's wisdom to be imparted, the whip lashes you in your dungeon.
My Stars No Mates Ensemble remix opens like it might be a dungeon synth monster, before the frail and fragile neo minimalist jazz intrusions, instead making you sit and pay attention to the disquieting lyrics, figuring out if they mean what you thought they meant about that parade, or if the tremulous guitar is on about something else entirely.
Sonny Said Ryoti Mikami Remix has a squelchy 70's Italian funk soundtrack of glitchy interludes, Sonny's wisdom is imparted with astral space noises and a creeping feeling of displacement from reality.
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