Shiny Eyes are again with a brand new EP that serves as a mushy accompaniment to final 12 months’s 5 Cube, All Threes. Children Desk EP is out September 26 by way of Useless Oceans. The indie-rock band has additionally shared the brand new track “Dyslexic Palindrome” that includes Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra, who joined Shiny Eyes on their latest tour to duet “Lua” collectively. Try that track and its accompanying music video under.
“Alynda Segarra is among the most soulful individuals I’ve ever encountered,” mentioned Conor Oberst. “All the things that passes via them is haunted by the weary ghost of American music previous. I’ve had the nice fortune of recording and performing with them on many events and I’m all the time blown away by Alynda’s capability to channel what’s each intangible and common. Seemingly strolling alongside in a second line of skeletons. Blowing on a valiant horn. I do know it sounds loopy however, but, there Alynda is. At all times so very current however with one foot on the opposite aspect.”
Children Desk EP spans eight songs in whole, together with “Dyslexic Palindrome” and the July single “1st World Blues,” by which Shiny Eyes go ska. Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott additionally opted to cowl the 1980 Lucinda Williams’ monitor “Sharp Chopping Wings (Tune to a Poet)” for the upcoming EP.
Shiny Eyes are presently on tour in help of their latest album. After making their method alongside the west coast this fall, with help from Saintseneca and Constructed to Spill’s Doug Martsch, the band will fly to Asia for concert events in Tokyo, Osaka, and Singapore. Try their full record of tour dates after the bounce.
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