King Eddie

King Eddie's gone through it's two-year chrysalis stage so that they could burst out with their debut album, fully formed in all its multi-hued, genre-defiant dynamism. The Detroit-born music collective is currently based out of Iowa but it's a sure thing we'll be seeing them soon... Their proper debut album comes out this week....

I wanted to say it sounded like Of Montreal until it sounded like Electric Light Orchestra...until it sounded like Tame Impala...until it sounded like Olivia Tremor Control or Traffic, or Black Mountain...

Cuz why just be a fluid, feathery psych-pop when you can really wail it out and dabble into a bit of heavy-metal soul? Why just go for that melodic-centric indie-pop whimsy when you can bring in some eerie/beautiful synths and organs and jettison a low tide beach stride up into the rainbow-bolt struck stratosphere of trippy/paisley baroque-bliss.... 

Follow along the breezy strums and soaring motifs of "New World" until you get to the cusp of the bridge... "In the new world, who's wrong, who's right? / As the new girl under wallpapered sky..." Sounds like we're in pretty typical psychedelia locales with those lyrics, until... "In the new world, they cut off hte head....and they serve it in rounds like the baker's bread...."

GUITARS!

Stream it along, I'll wait, it's about at the 2:32 mark... 

...And did you get a load of those guttural barks during the first four measures of the solo? Something interesting is going on inside of the heads of King Eddie's four members and it pours, bleeds, bursts and radiates onto the recordings of their debut album, which comes out August 14th.


Lead guitarist Justin Maike draws a vivid picture and his collaborators help color it all in with their own unique vibrantly tinted tones. Maike recorded the record himself, between his time spent in Denver, Sioux City (IA) and Detroit. Adam Cox helped mix and master the self-titled album. Maike currently resides in Sioux City where the band is currently composed of Angela Lambrecht, Velvet Adams and Les Rahns. The release show is tomorrow night, actually, at the Sioux City Music Conservancy.