The Lovely Eggs
The Lovely Eggs enjoying watermelon.
The Lovely Eggs are a conundrum. By all rights I shouldn’t like The Lovely Eggs, the songs are strange and esoteric, the vocals are far from traditional and they all over have a punky garage band feel to them, but there in lies the mystery, because I fucking love The Lovely Eggs. If you don’t like the lovely eggs, then I hate to tell you, your inner child is dead.
The Lovely Eggs started making their captivatingly strange music in 2006, and released their first album “If You Were Fruit” in 2009 along with 4 singles that received lots of air time and great reviews from revered radio DJs Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq, Rob Da Bank and John Kennedy.
One of the reasons that The Lovely Eggs became so popular so quickly is that they seem to have engineered their own, very, very distinctive sound. And it’s a wonderfully strange, deeply charismatic sound.
The big appeal of the band is that they manage to sound child-like without sounding childish. The songs don’t come off with a pretensions look-at-us-we-are-so-quirky, they just sound fun and genuinely interesting. If the songs weren’t so well written, catchy and fun, then it would be easy to write The Lovely Eggs off as a joke band, but when you find yourself really enjoying their songs that becomes much harder to do.
Let's take a look at the songs from the first album...
I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too
"I Like Birds" is the most traditional of The Lovely Eggs songs, it's structured like a regular song and it has a satisfying grunge tinge to it. Behind the glaze of perfectly ordinary song writing, however, just under the skin is a something very charming and curious.
It's not that The Lovely Eggs are weird, it just shows how unoriginal and banal most bands are today.
Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion
Have You Ever Heard An Digital Accordion is what bands sound like when they are having fun. The fun that the band must have been having while writing this song is almost palpable.
It’s the lyrics that make this song so good, and although that seems quite simple to say, it's not obvious why. The reason the lyrics are so good is because they are silly and odd but they are not stupid. They seem random, but they have obviously been designed to fit both rhythmically and in character.
It’s a surprisingly well written song, listen to it enough and you will find yourself humming it and asking strangers if they “have ever fought a deadly scorpion”.
Fuck It
Fuck It is proof that The Lovely Eggs are no one trick pony. Although the bizarre lyrics remain, the band have shed the grunge sound.
Fuck It is one of the few Lovely Eggs songs with real pathos. There is a sadness which rivals most ballads, because most of the lines are unconnected it holds on to a feeling of “I don’t really know what to do with myself”, people can relate to in a way they can't with traditional "sad" songs.
If you liked The Lovely Eggs be sure to check out Pomplamoose.
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