..lots to love about wistful tunes about long walks, death and regret. Vocalist Bennie Reilly is sublime, and is possessed of a vocal as seductive and mournfully melancholic as the music she fronts.
Johnnie Craig,
State Magazine online
16 September 2008
Three lads, three lasses and a set of pretty songs with hearts of darkness.. At times the trio of females reminded some more senior (mentioning no names) audience members of The Marine Girls; rest assured, that is no bad thing.
Tim Smyth,
Hotpress
04 Sep 2007
The textured melodies and Bennie Reilly’s soft, mouse-sized voice make it easy to like the indie-folksters’ debut – and there’s even more that’ll make you love it. They can do pastoral just as well as The Earlies, with harmonies like wind instruments played by friendly ghosts (‘(She’ll Use You) Lou’). However, they can carry off the harder stuff equally well – check out the sludgy guitar of ‘Sleepwalking’. This EP feels like watching an autumn day from inside, and the songs are just long enough for you to lie back in them.
Tony Clayton-Lea,
The Ticket, Irish Times
Friday, September 14, 2007
(T)his new unit take indie-folk as a base for sweet, cute and deceptively hard-hitting songs. Think Rilo Kiley with very vicious knobs on.
Road Records
Single of the Week - little xs for eyes EP
..the debut five track mini album from this new irish based outfit…features some really lovely downbeat country tinged folk sounds with comparisons to the likes of Mazzy Star meets Cat Power or even Neko Case, the opening two tracks are two of the most beautiful alt country tracks sounding like a more laid back Cowboy Junkies with the almost whispered vocal delivery of Hope Sandoval, really lovely stuff well worthy of your attention
Allison Curtis,
Today FM :
Sounds of the Week
The Irish music scene is highly impressive at the moment, current loves of mine little xs for eyes…make beautiful pop sounds!
UnaRocks Blog
Band Watch: little xs for eyes,
July 16, 2007
little xs for eyes … If there was any sun this summer, the music that they make would be a good accompaniment to it. It's airy, harmony-laden, ethereal, sweet, relaxing, and quality of course.
Liam, Drop-D Blog
Jul 23, 2007
the band play some deliciously harmonious music that will have you floating off into the sky with a blissful smile etched to your mug..
they've all kind of cool instruments, including a glockenspiel, ukelele, and double bass...for an indication of what they sound like i'd say think Reindeer Section doing Carpenters covers... well its close enough..
Claus.com
Gig of the Fortnight
little xs for eyes, The Sugar Club, Dublin - 24th July
little xs for eyes features current and former members of *inhales* Life After Modelling, Butterfly Explosion and 66E. "On paper" is only deadly so it is.
Pure meditative drone from Europe to the US. There is definitely something happening here, but you wont know what it is. Evelyn War is all about opening doors, this stuff is haunting. Guyute brings bliss out of, guitars, synths, sculpted white noise and field recordings. A sojourn to the other-side.... Hand dubbed on white c37s with contour map labels, cardstock j-card and printed inserts, edition of 40
to order send an email to : earlytmourningrecords@gmail.com
yeah....they stopped serving soup and became Brisbane's premier indie venue. Brisbane (like dublin) seems to have a knack with producing cool bands (us excluded!)
ALIAS EMPIRE UPDATE!
www.aliasempire.com has recently gone live and on sign up members can download 'AEmix', a 6 track remixes EP, for free. This includes remixes of our own tracks as well as tracks by Messiah J and the Expert and Cars in Walls. Half of the remixes are by us while the rest have been handled by Philth and Seki, Nina Hynes, and Klass of '83. Each track has its own unique artwork included in the download. Hope to see you on there soon.
This FridayFriday 27th February: Bottlenote presents another double bill at the Joy Gallery, Dublin.
Simon Jermyn - baritone guitar / electronics Sissel Vera Pettersen - voice / electronics / sax (Norway) plus live visuals by Brian Solon
PLUS Justin Carroll's Triple Piglet Justin Carroll - harmonium Dave Redmond - double bass Kate Ellis - cello Friday the 27th of February at the Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place (opposite the Gate theatre) Doors at 8pm, free in before 9pm. 10 euro entrance. Complimentary wine + BYOB www. bottlenotemusic. com for details
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