“When you’re born in speech you’re gonna die in the lungs as easy as a fly caught in a window,” opens ‘Muck’, the latest single from Alberta and The Dead Eyes. “Ain’t got no room between the breath of day and the bite of doom.” The line serves as the perfect introduction to David A. Boone’s project. Joined by Erik Washington (drums) Bhuti Bhuti (bass) and Ashlan Ounanian, Boone creates a rugged and wry brand of country rock with added retro swagger, the songs switching between playful rhythms, soulful groove and impassioned emotion.
All these styles comprise You Said Something, the new Alberta and The Dead Eyes full-length record released this month. Though while the shadowy sashaying of ‘See Saw‘ and sinuous confidence of ‘Lil’ Bird‘ sat within the former aforementioned categories, ‘Muck’ falls firmly within the latter. A folk song wrapped in nostalgia but not fully taken with its allure, possessing the kind of impassioned yet fatalistic charm of Water Liars’s Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster. Alberta and the Dead Eyes are just as interested in the past as the future, and all too aware of how both have their own false bottoms and trap doors.
I’m coming in hot now, but you’ll find that I’m the same.
Sipping on my booze, backwashing truths and memories.
I’m moving past my prime ever so clumsily.
If you travel to the future—or maybe to the past
would you come and find me?
Check out the video by Paul P! Snyder below:
You Said Something is out now and available on vinyl from the Alberta and The Dead Eyes webstore.