Eight and a Half: Eight and a Half

Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Locke

The only thing I hate about music is the inevitability that every few weeks there is going to be a new album which takes the spot of “favorite” on my current playlist. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, but I feel slightly guilty having listened to Wonky and Happy to You dozens of times each and now they are seemingly shelved as I listen to nothing but Eight and a Half.

Eight and a Half - Eight and a Half cover

…you tried it all but your mother was right…

Droning melancholic oscillations split with sputtering steam spewing electronics. Crescendos with soft breaks, incessant snares, sly strumming hums and washes. Melodies that will sit coyly at the edge of your mind hours after the fact.

This is all great.

Did I mention the band consists of two guys from The Stills and one from Broken Social Scene?

Eight and a Half website

Track list:

  1. When I Was Twenty Nine
  2. Scissors
  3. Go Ego
  4. The Turn Around
  5. Took A Train To India
  6. Wait Up
  7. Two Points
  8. Walked Into Diazepene
  9. Oh, My Head
  10. My Forevers

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