New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Just in time for spooky season, Minneapolis band Early Eyes have released new single 'Halloween 18', taken from their forthcoming debut album Look Alive! released on 25th February 2022 via Epitaph Records.
The perfect indie-pop dance track to get down with your fellow ghouls on Halloween night, vocalist Jake Berglove explains of the song: "We made 'Halloween 18' because we wanted to make the next Halloween chart topping single, influenced by Ari Aster,
James Wan, Sasquatch, and a zombie with no conscience."
"We wrote the majority of the song in memoriam of the ghost of a Halloween party that happened in 2017, but 'Halloween Seventeen' wasn't the right amount of syllables. That was a particularly impactful evening as it was when we all met our good friend Tenebrion Soul Swallower who is definitely not behind me making me write this press release."
Produced by Caleb Hinz (Hippo Campus, Samia) and Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus, Look Alive! looks ahead to a post-genre future where emo, post-hardcore, Japanese city pop, and musical theatre can coexist peacefully on one album.
Early Eyes signed to Epitaph Records in January 2020 and put out their first singles with the label that March, just as the pandemic brought the entire music industry screeching to a halt. As weeks turned into months, and as their city of Minneapolis imploded in a catastrophic moment of fury, grief, and protest, the band alternated between doing what they could to support mutual aid efforts and holing up in the studio to channel their complicated emotions into song.
"It almost feels like Look Alive! is a direct response to the pandemic," vocalist Jake Berglove reflects. "We took all of that anxiety and angry energy and put it into making a really fucked up album." But at the same time, "the album was not just an expression of all of our frustrations, but also an escape from it," adds guitarist Joe Villano.
LOOK ALIVE! TRACK LISTING:
Big Sigh
Chemicals
Paresthesia
Revel Berry
Catch You
Rocket
Halloween 18
Dying Plant
Somewhere Overgrown
Marathon
Trust Fall
Early Eyes are:
Jake Berglove (vocals/guitar)
Joe Villano (guitar)
John O'Brien (guitar)
Megan Mahoney (bass)
Sam Mathys (drums)
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