RECORD REVIEW: The Big Eyes Family Players - Family Favourites
The Big Eyes Family Players - Family Favourites
Out now on Karate Body Records
There’s a song on here called Lewis. If it was at the dining table it’d be the exquisitely-whittled serving implement your girlfriend sent you while she was in Vietnam right before she changed her name and you never heard from her again. The room in which it sits would be The Big Eyes Family Players and the table would be Family Favourites. Gorecki’s at the table too and they’ve served him a big plate of For Gorecki. He’s using his hands.
They’ve done well. They’ve been doing well for a while now. They were a familyless yet still big-eyed lopsided curio on Pickled Egg, a label that twisted its weirdness into a cravat and danced through the party in a wicker suit. Now on new label Karate Body, they’ve become a collabo-familial nutri-sprinkler plugging itself into the past to rain fresh history at the sun.
They decided to re-wrangle some old songs; hence “Favourites”. What are they seeing out of those massive peepers? From what reaches the ears: Sometimes a mouth full of thick ruby sap. Sometimes a forest of legs in torn clothes. Often a flock of hawks in leather helmets running around a violin shop. A drummer with tiny hands made of amber. A man with a fine moustache unaware that a woman is looking at him but wouldn’t be had he decided to shave it off that morning.
The whole thing is over in half an hour. It’s welcome to stay longer – as long as it likes – but it knows the value of a measured dose and it has business in the east.
Ed Garland
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