Eugene McGuinness’ self-titled debut full length album was released in October and follows his 8 song mini album, The Early Learnings Of, which was released to great critical acclaim last year on Double Six.
Eugene McGuinness’ self-titled debut offers twelve utterly charming pop tracks, which skip between boundaries with gleeful abandon and an acidic sense of humour; and includes the brilliant single, Moscow State Circus.
If you like your alternative/ indie pop to be flavoured with The Smiths, Morrissey and The Last Shadow Puppets then I think you will like this.
From the post-punk sturm and drang of Fonz to the skiffle-beat pop confections of Rings Around Rosa to the disarmingly beautiful 30’s-style balladeering of Those Black And White Movies, the album veers from unabashed, starry-eyed romance to pre-coital forked-tongue come-ons via a sound that’s simultaneously cinematic and yet endearingly ramshackle.
Eugene McGuinness’ album contains knowing winks and phrases drawn from personal experience, but mostly made up scenarios full of joyous verve and unpredictability. It is a collection of songs gloriously out of time yet thoroughly modern, with one foot in reality and the other somewhere else entirely, where every silver lining has a cloud and one unexpected turn of phrase can lead you down a new musical rabbit hole.
Eugene McGuinness by Eugene McGuinness is available on Domino Records CD (WIGCD218), vinyl (WIGLP218) and via digital download (WIG218D).
Eugene McGuinness tracklisting is as follows:
1.Rings Around Rosa
2.Fonz
3.Wendy Wonders
4.Moscow State Circus
5.Those Old BW Movies
6.Nightshift
7.Atlas
8.Knock Down Ginger
9.Crown The Clown
10.Not So Academic
11.Disneyfied
12.God In Space
For more information visit www.myspace.com/eugenemcguinness85
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