S/T Demos, by Black Eyes

S/T Demos

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1.	7 02:25	buy track
2.	Letter to Raoul Peck 03:28	buy track
3.	11 (Deformative lyrics) 03:10	buy track
4.	King's Dominion 02:21	buy track
5.	5 (On the Sacred Side/Drums lyrics) 03:57	buy track
6.	Speaking in Tounges 05:04	buy track
7.	3 04:58	buy track
8.	Ten 02:23	buy track
9.	Someone Has His Fingers Broken 05:12	buy track

about

These recordings were done in preparation for our S/T album in July of 2002. Ian had offered to work with us on a full length and wanted some demos of the songs as they stood. As you can hear, a number of these didn’t make the cut or got radically reworked (or recycled…the number of tracks with lyrics that ended up with wildly different music/songs is substantial). But it's interesting to hear how things evolved and where we were as a band such a short time before heading into the studio. Any songs that are on the S/T that weren’t recorded here were written after discussing these demos with Ian and deciding that we needed some new songs to go with the ones that made the cut. Regarding the songs with just numbers as titles:as a band we referred to our songs in chronological order while we sorted out lyrics and titles. Thus 1 was the first song, 2 the second, etc…This was how we referred to these songs and how we wrote them on our setlists. This can be seen/decoded in the liner notes of the S/T LP and on the cover of “Cough” as well. The tracks that didn’t make the cut only are known by their numbers,though we did keep a few with the numbers as the actual titles as well (Nine and Ten).

Recordings were made in Hugh’s studio in his parent’s basement and were engineered/mixed by Hugh with tape op help from Paul Jickling and Matt Vanek.

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released April 10, 2023

Dan, Daniel, Hugh, Jacob, Mike

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Black Eyes Washington, D.C.

Black Eyes formed in August of 2001 and the band’s first full-length arrived two years later via Dischord. Their shows were chaotic and often melted down into frenzied jam sessions. A second full-length, "Cough", came out in May of 2004. The album introduced saxophone to the mix and relied more heavily on improvisational and dub influences. The band broke up shortly before the album was released. ... more

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