We'll Be Piranhas is the second album by Edinburgh based Eamon The Destroyer whose members have previously been in among other bands Idiot Half Brother And The Ageing Children and Bunny And The Invalid Singers. This album is every bit as weird odd and nutty as its predecessor A Small Blue Car (Remade/Remodelled).
The album opens with the weird glitchy semi classical The Choirmaster, that as the vocals comes in goes more dancefloor pop, but with several twists as we have left the normal world far behind, having entered the odd realm of Eamon The Destroyer, as with his first album A Small Blue Car this packs enough ideas for a whole album into each song.
Rope has ambient synths making what's happened to the road bridge seem all the more drastic, as 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 porno.
Sonny Said carries on in the 70's Italian soundtrack vein but with glitchy interludes as all of Sonny's wisdom is imparted.
Underscoring The Blues has lush strings with spoken word vocals in a thick Scottish brogue, before it goes all stop start with what sounds like female sampled vocals fighting against an out of control glockenspiel to let the strings settle the score.
We'll be Piranhas has an accordion intro as the gauzy glitch folk goes in all sorts of directions towards the Piranhas swimming around looking for lunch.
A Pewter Wolf has a cinematic edge to the lyrics as the ambient drone is decorated with oddly distracted percussion.
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A Call Coming is the music you need at the ready for the next cold caller as it will put them off the script in no time at all as the 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. Distracted from reality by out of sync synths abstracted reality.
The album closes with My Stars that opens like it might be a dungeon synth monster, but remains far to frail and fragile, as the introductory tones don't envelop, 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 it's about something else entirely.
If you listen to the cd it goes proper 90's by having a hidden track telling you to start playing the album again now!!
Find out more at https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/well-be-piranhas https://www.facebook.com/eamonthedestroyer
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