.. From beginning to end, this is a thrill-ride of sounds that borrows bits of the old, mates them with something completely unique and genuinely befitting of its own class, and births them into a haunting world of painful ghosts and ever-hungry, always feeding bleak memories, granting no one caught there, ever, an escape. These […]
A great but somewhat lengthy interview I did with Ines from Terra Relicta webzine is linked below … check it out: http://terrarelicta.com/index.php/feature-all/interviews/3562-double-eyelid-interview
One album, Double Eyelid, Seven Years, ten tracks and a countless palette of vigorous images. I have never struggled before to put down some words on an album, as with this one. Not because I would try to look for bright points in a boring album, but because this album is so extraordinary; so emotional, […]
Here before us we have one of the more experimental acts from the Darkwave and Gothic world. Canadian outfit Double Eyelid pride themselves on producing the darker side of electro-rock with elements of dark cabaret and surreal spoken vocals with their debut release: SEVEN YEARS. Opening track ‘Black Box’ will remind any keen gothic rock […]
An album so exquisite you start wondering what quisite might actually be, Double Eyelid fuse charm with a grinning griminess that it’s hard to imagine anyone not being smitten by the majority of these songs, given their variety and consummate beauty. ‘Black Box’ kicks the melodrama off wonderfully with piquant traipsing music, the rhythm mottled, […]
