Saturday, May 18, 2024

EAMON THE DESTROYER: ALTERNATE PIRANHAS EP (WHEN A SMALLER BITE PLAYS BIGGER)

Eamon the Destroyer returns for a massive, epic, Bearsuit Records EP called Alternate Piranhas.

In tribute to Eamon's first Piranhas outing (see We'll Be Piranhas, Nov 2023 post), this one uses alternate versions of the emanating tracks to create a novel, melodramatic spin. The tracks are just as biting, but with the uncanny, reconsidered ability to cannibalize bigger chunks from one's cerebral flesh.  

Among the five, revitalized works, the classy "Pewter Wolf" bobs right to the top. It still holds a rum-tum-tum vibration, but there comes a point where it enters like a sideline waterfall. In truth, the subliminal splash pervades throughout the entire succession, performing as an anticipatory curve to Eamon's ambitious, audio plan.  

Because of its redesign, "Pewter Wolf" is also a reformatted antithesis to "Rope," and "Rope," in its subtle styling, achieves the means of depicting resignation at maximum play. To rephrase, its suicidal, harpsichord drawl is even more magnetic and profane this time. (It's rather like taking pills that take their time to take hold, but when they do, the subsequent odyssey lasts an eternity.) 

"A Call Coming" is as pleasantly downcast as the album version, but accentuated by denser subjugation. It still references missed hopes, but it unleashes a symbolic school of monster fish to pursue the hazardous journey. (One pushes against the gnawing tide, but the wounds it inflicts sting big time, pulling one from a hankered destination or more so, from the person one desires most.)

"My Stars" presents a comparable structure, but bursts from the chest in Alien jest, straight into the cosmic depths of an extraterrestrial hell. This one resonates on the album, but oscillates greater, cosmic vibes on the EP. 

Last in critical line is the EP's hands-down triumph, a redux of the multilayered "Choirmaster". "Choirmaster" is still an "anodic canticle for praise-to-God, fearless feats and their forever, fated failures," but beyond that eloquent declaration, it sets one's ears to a blood-letting yell, being as brash and variable as it's draining and bleak. 

Eamon the Destroyer's Alternate Piranhas is a faultless companion to his founding masterpiece, so if you fancy that one, you'll fancy this one. It's a sequel/remake that hits all the right, devouring chords by remixing an outstanding album's flavor a bold hundredfold.

https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alternate-piranhas-ep

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