27/06/2024
Wandering Welsh melodists return to weird garage-psych wizardry with The Eggmen Whoooooo! and reveal debut album with first single…
I Don’t Care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQKtv_Thbuo
Golden-era of kinked, acid-hued, analogue, harmonic songwriting sits at the heart of The Eggmen Whoooooo!’s first, mind-bending, full-length album
Two-decades of meandering musicality finds the embers of cult Welsh legends, El Goodo, glowing beneath Benedict Frye’s latest stew of sound
The Eggmen Whoooooo! – I Don’t Care – OUT NOW
From the album, Fuzzy Eggs, Please – released 25/10/24
Strangetown Records
Rattling and shuddering through the wilds of garage rock and skimming stones over intermittent plains of stoned, stacked harmonies, the debut single from The Eggmen Whoooooo! – the latest vehicle for the irrepressible and inextinguishable creativity of Welsh songwriter, Benedict Frye, alongside members of Los Blancos and Trecco Beis – is I Don’t Care and it’s OUT NOW.
Pumping effervescence and colour into the flat glass of soda of mundane middle age, the former El Goodo pace-setter has gathered a band of five other, talented souls and asks the jittery cut of sparking psych to lead the charge as the band’s debut album, Fuzzy Eggs, Please is announced for release on Fri 25 October 2024.
Almost a full two decades since El Goodo rose to an elevated position amongst discerning music-lovers as consorts to, support act beneath and studio collaborators with Super Furry Animals, and a full four years since the final act of the departed band, their last, acclaimed studio album, Zombie, a tapestry of distinctly and brilliantly odd songs emerges from the heart of that band. Transplanted into the chest cavity of a new, stage-ready six-headed creature, what awakes is a new beast of valve amp and feedback-fuelled splendour.
All ten songs, recorded in mountainous seclusion in Carmarthenshire with producer, Thighpaulsandra (Spiritualized, Tim Burgess), have clustered in strange harmony on The Eggmen Whoooooo!’s very first, perfectly imperfect album. Offering the deceptively youthful thrash of I Don’t Care to listeners first, Frye and the band commit to immediacy over subtlety.
Frye says, succinctly, of the track: “Ennui, existential dread, boredom, hangovers, render times etc.”
The Eggmen Whoooooo!, loosely gathered around the small towns of South Wales, is Frye, Gregg Boyle, Sheldon Advocaat, Thom Lett, Gwyn Ŵy and Sue Flay.
Fuzzy Eggs, Please will be released on vinyl, CD and digital formats.
