Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

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Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye
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Artist...............: Lou Rhodes
Album................: theyesandeye
Genre................: Folk
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2016
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 56 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 23/07/2016

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Tracklisting
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01. All I Need (3:32)
02. All The Birds (3:51)
03. Angels (2:31)
04. Sea Organ (3:45)
05. Them (3:15)
06. Circle Song (4:01)
07. Hope & Glory (3:19)
08. Sun & Moon (1:41)
09. Full Moon (3:03)
10. Never Forget (2:44)
11. Magic Ride (3:14)

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It’s hard not to read the cover shot of Lou Rhodes toting a ram’s head as a signal of how far she’s grown since her days as half of electro trip-hop duo Lamb. Certainly, theyesandeye bears scant relation to that earlier work, and represents a firm step forward from the basic folk style of her 3 previous solo albums. This is surely due in large part to co-producer Simon Byrt, an analogue fetishist whose antique reverb units lend theyesandeye a spacious, ghostly ambience which shifts Rhodes’s songs into the psychedelically tinged “wyrd-folk” territory explored by Natasha Khan on the early Bat for Lashes albums – another irresistible connotation of that ram’s-head sleeve photo.
“All the Birds” opens the album with Rhodes “waiting for this song to come and fall into my heart”, her acoustic guitar and sparse percussion haunted by wordless backing-vocal moans. It establishes the “true adoration of sweet Mother Nature” subsequently hymned in “All I Need”, with guitar, piano and more of those effusive, oceanic backing vocals marshalled in celebration of the simplicity and wonder of the natural world “that brought me you”. This alliance of love and nature recurs later in “Sun & Moon”, a brief exercise in romantic bucolicism where tiny guitar and piano notes are woven into a delicate web of sound carrying the planetary allegory of loving partners.

Elsewhere, Rhodes’ throwback hippie tendencies are evident in songs like “Them”, a critique of simplistic finger-pointing attitudes (“One finger points away, the others point right back”) with spooky strings and piano borne along by military snare tattoo; and “Sea Organ”, where her pulsing guitar is joined by gentle harp glissandi for a rallying-cry to her “brothers and sisters of the sun” to repair the ecological damage of an era when life was judged by “what we had, rather than what we gave to it”. It’s an attractive, still beguiling attitude that courses through the album like ambrosia, offering a welcome, if unworldly, alternative to pop’s prevailing discourse of acquisitive antagonism and automated emotions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiRXRdBjvs&list=PLBuL4OaqT5sqK4odJKlPUk03LINYxFd0c

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