Being Dead Unveil New Single ‘Goodnight’
New Album EELS
Out September 27th Via Bayonet
“Surf-rock riffs, oddball humour, and warped Americana storytelling define the Austin band” — Pitchfork
“One of the most chaotic trios in Texas.” — The Line Of Best Fit
“Part scuzz-rock haymaker, part paisley-coloured psychedelic singalong, ‘Firefighters’ could function equally well as a theme song for the titular emergency service members or a more universal anthem for the ever-encroaching calamity.” — The FADER
Being Dead — the Austin, TX-based project of multi-instrumentalists and best friends Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy — unveil the new single/video, ‘Goodnight,’ from their new album, EELS, out September 27th on Bayonet. Listen to ‘Goodnight’ HERE & watch the video HERE.
“Sleep is the only thing more important to us than sex. This song has both,” the band explains, as they sing about falling asleep and falling in love. The video was shot by Tricia Torley and features footage of the band’s hijinx while on tour. Being Dead kicks off their North American dates in support of EELS with a pair of hometown shows in the next month including Austin City Limits Festival. The band will be joined by support from Dari Bay, Villagerrr, Sex Week, Golden Apples, Omni, and Big Bill throughout their run.
A band whose varying origin stories have been immortalised across the last seven years of making music together, Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy deliver each story with a wink, inviting you in on the joke. Something about their music suggests it’s a dispatch from both the future and the past – vocal harmonies that sound like they’re reverberating in a medieval church to surfy guitar lines, weirdo-punky cacophonies erupting into chaos. There’s the sense that these are two people who are strangers to all that is banal – there is always fun to be had, a little mischievous magic waiting around the corner, if you know how to find or make it.
Like its animal namesake suggests, the songs on EELS are malleable, the record like slithering through murky waters or strange half dreams, mysterious and beautiful in how it moves, reflective in a wavering sheen. Dipping into each song feels like uncovering a new cavern, plunging into depths unknown but fully open to what will be revealed. EELS feels like an album of possibilities, little tasters of what might be next, a vast and limitless stretching out before them.
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