EYES OF OTHERS Eyes of Others

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Eyes of Others have been described as making ‘post-pub couldn’t get in the club music’. Really though, you’ll recognise it as the sound of the small hours. It’s The Blue Nile lost on the dancefloor at an Optimo night; John Martyn working magic with drum loops and Logic; a copy of the first Suicide LP washed up on the shores of Portobello Beach. It’s drawn curtains and an overheating stereo in your friend’s living room after the rest of town has called it a night, it’s hours spent watching the windows before sunrise in a slumbering city. Eyes of Others previously released an EP, ‘Elevenses’, on Global Warming Records in 2021. Their 2017 track ‘I See You In The Shrubs’ was remixed by the late, great Andrew Weatherall. It’s the project of Scottish musician John Bryden. “Last night I was at a folk gig and that gets me excited. And I like to chuck that against some more dubby or dancefloor, clubby sounds. That’s the challenge – seeing what things you can put against one another.” The challenge has not only been met on the album, but expectations have been exceeded. Coming in at a brisk 41 minutes, the album reveals its manifold charms immediately, but also does so in a meandering, nuanced and irreverent fashion. Opener ‘Once, Twice, Thrice’ brings together Bryden’s hypnotic voice and an understated but utterly composed Ali-like rhythmical shuffle. The spacious grooves of ‘Safehouse’ recall Adrian Sherwood working his deep hypnotic magic on Primal Scream’s ‘Echo Dek’ dub album. Meanwhile, ‘At Home, I’m A Leader’ takes the dub aesthetics on a more psychedelic, pastoral journey, where folk rock and krautrock combine to stunning effect.

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Eyes of Others
Eyes of Others

1. Once, Twice, Thrice
2. Safehouse
3. Escalation
4. At Home I Am a Leader
5. New Hair New Me
6. Ego Hit
7. Mother Father
8. Jargon Jones and Jones
9. Come Inside
10. Big Companies, Large Tentacles