Here are links
to some things that people have written about our record 'Ears
Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink'
If you wrote something about us and I didn't put a link to it in here, please
forgive me. I'm trying to take heed of what I must, but things inevitably
fall through the cracks.
Click on the link to see the whole thing:
other
music - "...strangely embracing..."
pop news
- "...d'harmonies vocales improbables..."
some year end "best of" lists that were charitable enough to include
us: gorilla
vs bear,
mokb, rock
music review, music
for kids who can't read good, my
big mouth strikes again, everybody
cares, everybody understands, 30music,
bearded
cephalopod.
radio
libre - "La famille musicale de Bodies Of Water n’est
pas difficile à cerner."
pop
tarts suck toasted - "Bodies of Water is a nice reprieve
from all the noise rock..."
write
noise - "...the band's undisciplined sense of invention."
paste
- "...big ideas comfortably co-exist with spontaneity."
side
one: track one - "...imagine yourself in a field..."
weekly
dig - "There's also shapeless loungewear..."
the
huntsville times - "Then he grabbed a dog..."
planeta
pop - "el punk rock, el folk americano, el gospel, el tropicalismo
o el cabaret
head
exploder - "...LA's mud pit of a music scene..."
l.a.
underground - "...a freedom rally or a peace parade."
the
bearded cephalopod - "...that description may sound grating..."
l.a. record
- "...the onslaught of sound..."
stereogum
- "...subsequent bits delve into lotioned arms..." (Ed. Note
- You've got to read the comments on this one. It is pretty funny.)
cameraphonic
- This is a film of our show at Pershing Square at the end of July. The sound
at that place wasn't so great, but you know how it is...
gorilla
vs bear - Please scroll down and read the comments to this post...
pitchfork
- "...God's unbearable light."
spoilt
victorian child - "It's a cracking album..."
the phantom tollbooth
- "I'm just a wee bit disturbed"
hate something
beautiful - "...flying above the clouds."
spin.com
- "...David Metcalf also
worked as a proofreader for a Harry Potter trivia game."
amplifier
- "...a sometimes joyous and sometimes somber outcry..."
little
radio - "...they are not blatantly in your face..."
the
village voice - "What is a word for the opposite of nostalgia?"
playback:stl
- "Each song changes direction without notice."
transform
- "The voice becomes yet another instrument..."
gorilla
vs bear - declared 'these are the eyes' to be one of the best
songs of june.
said
the gramophone - "...a fantasy painting of a landscape lush,
wide and foreign, an epic journey, a heroic undertaking, an accomplishment."
paper thin
walls - "...a wild church social."
chris
knauer - "...just plain stupid..."
gorilla
vs bear - "...the undeniable moment..."
blogs are for dogs - "...one of the year’s most singular artistic statements."
ink
19 - "...it's always good to have a "secret weapon..."
amplifier
- "...your mortal cares and worries..."
la
blogotheque - "C’est une énorme rumeur qui
court après elle-même avec la plus folle des énergies,
sans jamais vraiment perdre son souffle."
bon ton
- "Perhaps then, Bodies of Water does not provide outward spirituality,
but a conduit to your inner thoughts so you can find your own..."
the
white minstrel show - "There was no music before God, rt?"
popmatters
- an interview with David and Meredith
the joe
strummer foundation - "Things change direction unexpectedly..."
everybody
cares, everybody understands - "filled with love, chaos
and emotion..."
WRMC
Middlebury - "I may not have found God, but I found this
album, and perhaps it will do for now."
Some other things not NECESSARILY pertaining to the aforementioned album::
gorilla
vs bear - "...huge swells and rousing chorus..."
said
the gramophone - "It'd
be about how much the rest of the world can affect you, and how much is in
your control."
L.A.
alternative - "...when they squeal together in upward spiraling
melody mountains, it sounds like truth-seeking, not posturing."
(Ed. Note: We sing together in upward spiraling melody mountains,
but there is only one of us that "squeals.")
7000
Nomes - "Chamam-se Bodies of water e quem os definiu como
"abba meets the muppets" foi uma tal Laura."
Paper
Stereo - "There weren’t a ton of people there..."
Thanks to all of you people that have taken a little time to listen
to our songs and spoken out about them.