Landslide Eyes

Five years after the release of their acclaimed self-titled debut, The Gentle Cycle return with their second full-length album, the psychedelic masterpiece Landslide Eyes. Primarily a collaboration between vocalist/guitarist Derek See and drummer/audio engineer Roger Brogan, Landslide Eyes features fourteen alluring songs artfully woven together into two continuous and dreamily immersive tracks, one for each album side. “I really wanted to make a record that was like an album from the 1969 to 1973 era,” says Derek, who has also played and recorded with The Rain Parade, Dean Wareham, The Chocolate Watchband, Country Joe McDonald, and The Hellenes. “Some people say that albums are a dead art form in the age of streaming, but I still love sitting down with Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon and things like that, and having that ‘album experience’ the way the artists intended.”

Completed just before California’s COVID-19 lockdown, the basic tracks for Landslide Eyes were recorded on a Tascam 388 analog tape machine. Despite its many challenges, life in quarantine allowed Derek and Roger (whose credits include work with Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, and Spectrum) ample time to finesse, fine tune and remix—and in some cases completely reconstruct—their tracks; unable to work together in the same space, they digitized the recordings and began collaborating via email, digitally adding new colors, textures and overdubs from their respective home recording studios.