New Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” – album review from Darkroom Magazine:

Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” (BS061)

Se personalità, originalità e sonorità fuori dagli schemi sono ciò che state disperatamente cercando in un panorama per troppi versi appiattito su sé stesso, allora l’arte musicale di ETD, solo-project da Edimburgo, può decisamente fare al caso vostro. Già attivo in precedenza con act quali Idiot Half Brother, Ageing Children e Bunny And The Invalid Singers, l’artista scozzese si ripresenta a due anni dal debut album “A Small Blue Car”, lavoro col quale si era già segnalato per un eclettismo capace di condurre le canzoni in ogni potenziale direzione, senza perdere mai la bussola a dispetto della grande varietà di soluzioni ed arrangiamenti impiegata. La nuova fatica, visibilmente sui generis già dall’artwork della confezione digisleeve, spinge con ancor più forza e spensieratezza verso un songwriting completamente libero da schemi, sempre legato a quel folk-pop declinato in punta di piedi proprio dell’esordio, ma con una rinnovata attenzione per il lato più noisy del (post)rock e di certa shoegaze di confine. Fra ritmi spesso e volentieri sottili (anche quando emerge un malcelato nervosismo), sintetismi vintage, avanguardismi di varia natura e vibranti scariche elettriche, sulla scia di una vocalità dimessa che sa trovare la strada del buon refrain, l’album sa sorprendere tanto con le sue porzioni strumentali più pregiate (“Rope”) quanto con quelle più estrose ed eclettiche (“Underscoring The Blues” è prossima a certo jazz), assumendo sovente un carattere intimista (specie nella conclusiva “My Stars”) e dando il meglio con la title-track, esemplificativa del fascinoso gioco di contrasti messo in atto ed esaltata da una coinvolgente intensità elettrica. Non una formula così immediata o di facile presa, ma piuttosto un quadro sonoro cangiante che, per essere apprezzato a dovere, richiederà il giusto stato mentale e la giusta situazione, oltre alla dovuta attenzione. Il punto non è se il suono di ETD sia troppo differente per un pubblico necessariamente dotato di apertura mentale, ma se che si ne sonda i contenuti sia un ascoltatore abbastanza differente da saper apprezzare qualcosa che esula dagli schemi noti in una forma così personale. Da provare.
Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
[DarkRoom Magazine – 26.2.24]
http://www.darkroom-magazine.it/ita/107/Recensione.php?r=5084

New Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” – album review from DisAgreement:


Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” (BS061)

“What we get to hear on the eight new (ETD) tracks is quite astonishing. It’s a really great piece of art and music” [DisAgreement – 2/24]

Full review here:
http://www.disagreement.net/reviews2024/eamonthedestroyer_wellbepiranhas.html?fbclid=IwAR2JqK50t1tHrBxAdRiRxc8J5IPDGbMhMPcGO34wxWqkRAA1p0A4gTw83d4

New Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” album review from Fungalpunk:

Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” (BS061)

What on earth have I got on my hands here? Who the Hell is Eamon The Destroyer? Are we indeed Piranhas or just useless sprats swimming in a polluted river of hopelessness? These are the questions that bounced around the belfry of this cranially buggered assessing blighter who does more than his fair share for the acoustic world.

‘The Choirmaster’ begins with discomforting misfires, bonce jarring assaults on the tonal decencies and all manner of clashing cacophonies. Like the warming up of a deviant orchestra my ears are insulted before the initial drift comes, albeit in an off kilter and unexpected way. I stick with matters and find many sounds to soothe, a few to unsettle and an overall atmosphere of sci-fi experimentation gone AWOL. The fiddler at the helm is searching personal sonic stratospheres and dragging me along for the ride – my thoughts regarding this one is that there is much potential tapped and much potential untapped but, there is plenty to be intrigued by. Track the second is ‘Rope’ – a more classically tinted foray into the world of the uncertain with some quite dreamy-creamy cruisings that really hit the mark. The opening throes are wary, peeping and creeping before a whispering comes, observations made and then a disrobing drifts arrives, a drift that has rage, emotion and something I just can’t quite pin down. I don’t mind being thrown into a nebulous state – it happens and so it should. Anyway, I like this one, I can see the spiky tops cringing – wonderful it is…

Review continues here:
http://www.fungalpunknature.co.uk/FUNGALPUNK/CD%20reviews%202/Page%201.html?fbclid=IwAR0_iVC-q9inbG5E5SK_rnjc5wAgXgbs-q1Qh6duJIHIZiSkf6RrmfY_hY4

Dave Higginson-Tranter
[Fungalpunk – 17/1/24]



Eamon The Destroyer features on The Best New Music of 2023 – via “The Smelly Flowerpot Show” (Cambridge 105 FM) with Dave Hammond

“Just in case you missed The Smelly Flowerpot on Cambridge 105 Radio ’20 odd things I loved in 2023′ show on Cambridge 105 Radio (and have forgotten what the unadorned Dave Hammond chin looks like), you can now listen ‘on demand’ via the link below. The best new music from the last 12 months, including tracks by Ashley Reaks, Eamon The Destroyer, Andy Smith, Tom Skelly, Holly Blackshaw, SnarskiCircusLindyBand, The Silversound, Keltrix, Michael Plater, Carterbanduk, The New Fools, The Sound Of Pop Art, Tribes Of Europe & Barbara Stretch, Wreckless Eric, Georgina Birch, Absolute Beginners, Matt Deighton, Maria Uzor, Yvonne Hercules, The Garment District, Dos Floris and Tape Runs Out. Simply stunning music. Look out for the upcoming blog including the next ’20 odd things I loved in 2023′.”
Dave Hammond

Listen again here:
https://cambridge105.co.uk/dave-hammond-26-12-2023/?fbclid=IwAR1dz06rOp3bB9-Yg897k1LfF5AwFgQAnVGpZUbLdyKXhWilwBF0Amnbpu0

New review of the Eamon The Destroyer album, “We’ll Be Piranhas” from DMME.net:

Eamon The Destroyer – “We’ll Be Piranhas” (BS061)

Still nothing like anything: a second bout of beautiful noise deepens the mystery in the most predatory ways.

Following this performer is like walking blindfolded on a tightrope because the listener can never be sure whether they’ll reach the other side of the aural abyss he’s offering or fall into whatever trap he’s set. So while the trip the Scottish enigma took his flock on with “A Small Blue Car” in 2021 felt beguilingly mournful, his sophomore adventure should seem disturbingly entertaining, if no less introspective, as promised by “Humanity Is Coming” the first time around. Possibly inspired by the detour into remixes, “We’ll Be Piranhas” has much more assertiveness about it, yet Eamon’s romanticism upped the ante too, in terms of both sonic spectrum and melodic meander, although The Destroyer’s avant-garde leanings are still tangible here. And that’s exactly where the album’s thrills reside.

Yes, imagining strings being tuned up and electronic lines being bent down may help eager ears locate a proper wave to ride into “The Choirmaster” whose solemn orchestral soundscape and soft instrumental purr provide the artist with space to spread his vocal wings and fly towards alluring guitar riffs and effervescent swirl of synthesizers before alighting back on solid surface to contrast acoustic strum of the angry “Rope” and see it tighten for a shoegaze dance and suicidal shimmer. But then, there’s hope throbbing in the veins of “Sonny Said” which bulge with folk groove that’s woven into cosmic raga and exquisite psychedelia – only “Underscoring The Blues” adds gloom to this reflective, faux-symphonic yet exhilarating, space, so the platter’s pseudo-patinated title track isn’t intimidating despite the sinister fairground organ bolstering voice and licks. Unsurprisingly, the chamber atmosphere, warm choruses and flamenco lace of “A Pewter Wolf” exude sympathy for familiar predators, and the thick textures of “A Call Coming” beckon them home until “My Stars” shapes a tranquil finale out of muscular twang and half-spoken lyrics – and appends a hidden hypnotic coda to the record’s agenda.

It’s a code the listener is supposed to crack – but the process of cracking feels much more important, and much more pleasant, than the possible results of such an effort.
Dmitry M. Epstein
DMME.net
https://dmme.net/eamon-the-destroyer-well-be-piranhas/?fbclid=IwAR1aVyoZtOoGoY1Exfbeep6d59kK4pyLwyoz4_n7Ibt_9-U_4xSbKzZkKMQ

New review of Eamon The Destroyer’s album, “We’ll Be Piranhas” from Whisperinandhollerin

The album opens with the weird glitchy semi classical The Choirmaster, that as the vocals comes in goes more dancefloor pop, but with several twists as we have left the normal world far behind, having entered the odd realm of Eamon The Destroyer, as with his first album A Small Blue Car this packs enough ideas for a whole album into each song…
http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=16740&fbclid=IwAR2GSlFf9vQNoHLalfyaSa-E1tbQk_v8q5Jl_kqoA3qqvm63kaFOLEUDyg8

Bearsuit Record’s Harold Nono has done a 30 minute mix for “Signal To Noise” on Slack City Radio/Totally Radio

Tracklist:

1. Heads & Crocodiles – Laura Sampson and Sam Enthoven

2. Vegetable Soup – S. Hollis Mickey and David Velez

3. Decimated Wrists – Distraxi


Harold Nono Mix:

4. Gorgon Madonna – Yugen Blakrok

5. Ottepel – Kot Kot

6. De Profundis – Sofia Gubaidulina

7. Dark Wish (To Per Henrik Wallin) – The End

8. Blame Me – L’Rain

9. Little Lambs – Gazelle Twin

10. Secret Mobilization – Deerhoof

11. Comma (Excerpt) – Christine Ott


12. SPIDER LEADERSHIP – BLACKCLOUDSUMMONER

13. Aquarium – Rabeca

14. Flower is a Lovesome Thing – Ella Zirina

15. Looking – Adriana Wagner

16. Allegro ma non troppo – DominaPetra

17. Don’t Believe It – Ingrid Laubrock

18. Heads & Crocodiles (Excerpt) – Laura Sampson and Sam Enthoven

Listen again here:
https://www.totallyradio.com/shows/signal-to-noise/episodes/signal-to-noise-05-dec-2023-1576?fbclid=IwAR1L4s8MfzL2Fwg0Yaw5Wov8vCMpLwX6ow6SQw8vJS_lPNlJJ5iPxi-oH7I#_