Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink
Bodies Of Water stem from the core double act of husband and wife David Metcalf and Meredith Arthur, who eventually set about forming a full band to perform with, ultimately resulting in this debut album, Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink, a record released through the band's own Thousand Tongues label, and taken on for distribution by the reliably excellent Secretly Canadian. The vocal arrangements carry the band's principal sonic signature - their rousing four-way vocal arrangements. On tracks like 'Here Comes My Hand', Bodies Of Water come across as a less earnest Arcade Fire (another band based around a married couple), yelping and hollering a refrain en masse, creating a kind of evangelical choral setup. The songs themselves are firmly grounded in the purest of pop music, comparable to contemporary Scandinavian acts like The Concretes, or even less contemporary ones: 'Doves Circled The Sky' sounds more than a little like Abba, appropriating the dramatic Rachmaninoff-like piano chord stabs you'd hear on something like 'Dancing Queen'. Very nice indeed.
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Bodies Of Water stem from the core double act of husband and wife David Metcalf and Meredith Arthur, who eventually set about forming a full band to perform with, ultimately resulting in this debut album, Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink, a record released through the band's own Thousand Tongues label, and taken on for distribution by the reliably excellent Secretly Canadian. The vocal arrangements carry the band's principal sonic signature - their rousing four-way vocal arrangements. On tracks like 'Here Comes My Hand', Bodies Of Water come across as a less earnest Arcade Fire (another band based around a married couple), yelping and hollering a refrain en masse, creating a kind of evangelical choral setup. The songs themselves are firmly grounded in the purest of pop music, comparable to contemporary Scandinavian acts like The Concretes, or even less contemporary ones: 'Doves Circled The Sky' sounds more than a little like Abba, appropriating the dramatic Rachmaninoff-like piano chord stabs you'd hear on something like 'Dancing Queen'. Very nice indeed.
Bodies Of Water stem from the core double act of husband and wife David Metcalf and Meredith Arthur, who eventually set about forming a full band to perform with, ultimately resulting in this debut album, Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink, a record released through the band's own Thousand Tongues label, and taken on for distribution by the reliably excellent Secretly Canadian. The vocal arrangements carry the band's principal sonic signature - their rousing four-way vocal arrangements. On tracks like 'Here Comes My Hand', Bodies Of Water come across as a less earnest Arcade Fire (another band based around a married couple), yelping and hollering a refrain en masse, creating a kind of evangelical choral setup. The songs themselves are firmly grounded in the purest of pop music, comparable to contemporary Scandinavian acts like The Concretes, or even less contemporary ones: 'Doves Circled The Sky' sounds more than a little like Abba, appropriating the dramatic Rachmaninoff-like piano chord stabs you'd hear on something like 'Dancing Queen'. Very nice indeed.
Bodies Of Water stem from the core double act of husband and wife David Metcalf and Meredith Arthur, who eventually set about forming a full band to perform with, ultimately resulting in this debut album, Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink, a record released through the band's own Thousand Tongues label, and taken on for distribution by the reliably excellent Secretly Canadian. The vocal arrangements carry the band's principal sonic signature - their rousing four-way vocal arrangements. On tracks like 'Here Comes My Hand', Bodies Of Water come across as a less earnest Arcade Fire (another band based around a married couple), yelping and hollering a refrain en masse, creating a kind of evangelical choral setup. The songs themselves are firmly grounded in the purest of pop music, comparable to contemporary Scandinavian acts like The Concretes, or even less contemporary ones: 'Doves Circled The Sky' sounds more than a little like Abba, appropriating the dramatic Rachmaninoff-like piano chord stabs you'd hear on something like 'Dancing Queen'. Very nice indeed.