Album Review: Dead Man's Eyes - III (2022)
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Dead Man's Eyes - III
Release Date: August 19, 2022
Label: Tonzonen Records
Distribution: Soulfood
Format: Vinyl/CD/Digital
Duration: 32:58
Genre: Acid Folk / Garage Rock
Origin: Cologne, Germany
The number three, written in Latin letters always has a strong impact. The three vertical lines appear like powerful pillars connecting soil and soil. And thus, as an album title "III" raises certain expectations. Not only due to its optic impact but also because for many artists or bands the third full-length release was a crucial one.
So, here we are now with the new release "III" by Cologne's Dead Man's Eyes. The German debuted with the 2013 EP "Meet me in the Desert" and released their first proper full-length album "Words of Prey" in 2018. Another five years later, the trinity has now been completed. And the threefold theme is an omnipresent motif here.
Dead Man's Eyes, a quintet from Northrhine-Westphaian metropolis Cologne, are back on their five-year turn of releasing another great record. Their third album contains nine songs which can be divided into three segments - each of them around ten minutes long. Each of the song titles consists of three words (if you count 'I'll stay around' as three words). The three parts of the album though are dedicated to the three musical spheres that have influenced the musician's of Dead Man's Eyes and have thus coined what the band sounds like today.
It is therefore a threefold journey through time and space - and therefore the most personal album that Dead Man's Eyes could have created.
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As the first third kcks in with the Country guitar of the opening track 'High on Information', the first theme is introduced. Over the course of the opener and the following songs 'I'll stay around' and 'In my Fishbowl', Dead Man's Eyes lift their cowboy hats to greet and honour genres such as Anti-Folk, Americana, or Country Rock. Towards the end of that first segment, psychedelic traces become stronger and therefore the first transition is gradually kicking in.
Tumbleweeds and desert sand do not get lost immediately while Americana turns to Acid Folk and finally becomes the jazzy, bouyant and dynamic Psychedelic Pop which coins the second third of "III". The songs 'Time and Space', 'Take off soon' and 'On the Wire' are holiday and sunshine for your eardrums. Beach-ready Jazz and Surf dance along with joyful Catfish sounds as tempo and intensity increase. The journey must go on, says the development of the sound on "III", and this is exactly what Dead Man's Eyes do. The galopping 'On the Wire' marks the next transition.
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Thus,the increase of Fuzz and weight rolls into the final part of the album which begins with 'Into the Madness', continues with 'Never grow up' and finds its big finale in Nobody at all'. The theme has now moved to Garage Rock, Heavy Psych. In this segment of the album you can hear the heaviest and most dynamic tracks on "III" which will very likely motivate you to rhythmically move your body.
And this concludes a fantastic journey that is not only coined by stunning sounds but furthermore by beautifully intelligent coherence. Dead Man's Eyes have produced an album that takes the listeners by their hands and safely guids them through plentiful of gorgeous sonic spheres without ever losing track.
Is this one of the greatest releases of the year 2022? It very like is!
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