Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
If you don’t feel the hackles rising and the wrath coursing through each vein as the body responds to the old, desperate retort of “Get a proper job” as you plunder the soul for the opportunity to bring something unique, something spiritual, anything artistic into the world; then frankly there is no hope for you. You may as well reserve your place at the end of the line marked mediocrity and hope that the existential parade never finds you sulking as you march to the beat of other’s dogma and insecurity.
In a world of copycats, human mimics spouting out the same party lines, to be individual is to show the rightful anger that dwells within us all; it is just that some manage the well of individuality with a finesse bordering on the indomitable and exclusive…their lives shaped by the flow of their own pen, and for The Lovely Eggs, by the sheer cool of their sound and vision.
The creativity behind The Lovely Eggs has not diminished, despite the honesty of the last few years in which the studio has arguably been placed to a side as other battles have been on the upmost express way of deliverance, and yet their own existential thoughts have been leading all the way to this brand new recording which has caught the attention and given hope to all who are willing to feel anger and sorrow as an emotion without paying attention to the cries of defeat by others whose pan runs dry and burnt.
Eggsistentialism is a pounding release, a sound driven by quality and assurance. Across songs such as the opener Death Grip Kids, Meeting Friends At Night, My Mood Wave, I Don’t Fucking Know What I’m Gunna Do, and the soaring heights reached across the finales of Echo You and I Am Gaia, the Lancaster duo of Holly Ross and David Blackwell show their distinctive souls to be full, never beaten, never soft, but articulate in their anger and rage to the point where the listener is left invigorated by the experience; fully on their side having crawled out of their own protective shell.
A wonderfully performed and produced album, The Lovely Eggs appear once more to whisk the listener’s away to a land of truth and fierce independence.
The Lovely Eggs release Eggsistentialism on May 17th on Egg Records.