My favorite IGIF reader and all around asshole (I mean that as a compliment), jerkstore, whom I'm sure you're all familiar with, notified me however indirectly of a re-release of Eagle*Seagull's selt titled debut album. The new release has been spiced up a little bit here and there, mainly with the addition of strings. On some of the songs, such as their remarkably beautiful "Holy," the addition is a nice one. On others, such as "Photograph," the addition sounds jarring and unnecessary.
Eagle*Seagull has been an IGIF favorite since we were in diapers. We've been with them since day one of their blog buzz, and we'll most certainly continue the support, despite the fact that I feel the rerelease was pretty much unnecessary, and probably just to try to score a Pitchfork review. However, like I said, some of the songs benefitted from the tweaking... so what's done is done, their music is still beautiful, and still deserved of all of your praise.
Just for shits and giggles, here are the two aforementioned songs in their respective release versions:
[MP3] Eagle*Seagull - Holy (old 'n busted)
[MP3] Eagle*Seagull - Holy (new hotness)
[MP3] Eagle*Seagull - Photograph (old 'n busted)
[MP3] Eagle*Seagull - Photograph (new hotness)
11 comments:
there's blog buzz about this band?
could have fooled me
meh
"meh"
it's a shame, you're really missing something good in E*S with that type of casual disregard.
i'd take another listen if I were you, and check out the hype machine for more tracks.
jerkstore has already admitted being in this for the attention, please don't humour him by mentioning his name, i hate reading his shitty no good comments and this will inevitably lead to more of 'em, i can stand criticism, but whenever he opens his shutter it's just unbearable.
E*S is the shit, supposed blog buzz or not.
anonymous posts are awesome BTW.
i'm anonymous b/c I don't have a website or a blog. and do you really care what my real name is?
anon, if you only post once, then no, i don't care. but if i'm gonna attempt to have a conversation and there are like 20 anon comments...well, you see where i'm going here
oh right. well i'm the first anon, but not the third one, then i'm the one after. can't you just read my IP address or something?
should I just come up with a name? I do love your site and just discovered it via elbo.
what should I call myself?
if I did -anon
would that clarify?
;)
There ya go, im the first anon, "jerkstore comment"
Why did they change Photograph ?? Sounded much better stripped down...
There was a Blog Buzz about 6 months ago..alas they seem to have fallen to the wayside a little.
Savage Blog site by the way..Liam (ireland)
i know e*s well...it's a re-pressing, not a re-issue...a few adjustments were made to some songs and it was remastered...and that's it. i'm really doubting they care about a pitchfork review, although there label did really push it for a while.
yeah, fyi i talked to eli from e*s yesterday and he said this remastered/tweaked version appeared way back in january after the first pressing sold out...so it's not really new news at all.
and i'm a geek.
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