Being Dead, the Austin, TX-based project of multi-instrumentalists and best friends Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy will be at MOTR Pub on Sunday, October 27th!
A band whose varying origin stories have been immortalized across the last seven years of being a band, Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy deliver each story with a wink, inviting you in on the joke. Something about their music suggests it’s a dispatch from both the future and the past – vocal harmonies that sound like they’re reverberating in a medieval church to surfy guitar lines, weirdo-punky cacophonies erupting into chaos. There’s the sense that these are two people who are strangers to all that is banal - there is always fun to be had, a little mischievous magic waiting around the corner if you know how to find or make it.
Like its animal namesake suggests, the songs on EELS are malleable, the record like slithering through murky waters or strange half-dreams, mysterious and beautiful in how it moves, reflective in a wavering sheen. Dipping into each song feels like uncovering a new cavern, plunging into depths unknown but fully open to what will be revealed. EELS feels like an album of possibilities, little tasters of what might be next, a vast and limitless stretching out before them.
