Famed
for their fiercely independent DIY ethos, the Lovely Eggs have for the first
time employed outside help, bringing in producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming
Lips/Mercury Rev) to help the primitive kitchen table punk duo create a humongous
sounding feast.
Built
on Holly’s thick wall of distortion and wah-wah, propelled by David’s motorik drumming
and adorned with bleeps, squiggles and mad scientist electronics, this is
Eggs-deluxe. Some earlier scatter-brained whimsy is gone, or harder to detect beneath
the Sabbath riffing, but they’ve kept their pop hooks, revel in their irritated
outsider status and use language like few others. ‘I’m a twit, I’m a nit, I’m a shit and every single little bit of you is
getting to me’ (‘Dickhead’).
From
the dazzling, rave-bursting ‘Hello, I Am Your Sun’ to the pulsating, space-glam
‘Wiggy Giggy’ and the bubbling, Pulp-on-steroids ‘Big Sea’, This Is Eggland is impressively focused,
relentlessly brilliant and a must-go destination.
This Is Eggland by The Lovely Eggs is released on 23 February but order from thelovelyeggs.co.uk and you'll get it next week... The band play their biggest headline show to date at the Scala, London on 28 October 2018.
This review first appeared in Shindig magazine.
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