Solar Eyes are a psych-shocking, sonics-rocking duo from Birmingham, UK. They consist of centrifugal forces Glenn Smyth and Sebastian Maynard Francis. Today the duo have released their sophomore full length, Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, via Fierce Panda Records, that follows on from their critically acclaimed 2024 self-titled debut. For Solar Eyes it seems like there’s no time to live, no time to die, no time left at all. Live Freaky! Die Freaky! was recorded at Courtyard Studio in Oxfordshire, co-produced by Ian Davenport and mixed by long term collaborator Jeff Knowler.

Solar Eyes take the Spaghetti Junction Western vibes of their debut and add in darker, broader, bleaker shades of ragged glory. Smyth himself uses words like ‘sinister’, ‘brutal’ and ‘vicious’ to describe the lyrical themes, for this is an album about heroes lost in battle, an album which squints at the dark side of the West Coast sun, an album influenced by The Doors, The Stooges, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ennio Morricone, The Velvet Underground, and even a touch of Charlie Manson. Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is warped way of life, and then some. 

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