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CMU Approved
Approved: Eagulls
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 16 September 2014
Perhaps not the band I’d have voted most likely to be hailed by the Metro as carriers of “a rare passion”, teeth-baring Leeds band Eagulls first came to wider notice with early singles like ‘Council Flat Blues’ and, in 2012, their extremely riled and real first EP, which they sensibly decided to title ‘EP’.
Then came ‘Eagulls’ the LP and central track ‘Nerve Endings’, the video for which featured a pig’s brain rotting in fast-motion, a time lapse ‘treatment’ the band say led a horrified gas man to call the police to their flat.
And now, besting that in the ‘sheer squeamishness’ scale, is the clip for Eagulls’ new single ‘Hollow Visions’, whose star attraction this time is an eyeball being sliced up in the style of ‘Un Chien Andalou’. So those that can’t stand watching an eyeball getting peeled like a grape, I’d avert yours now, and maybe go and watch this KEXP version of the song instead.
That, or go and ogle Eagulls on their October tour, which starts on 7 Oct at the Portland Arms in Cambridge.
