If No One Else Saw It / Flying Machine

Eyes and No Eyes met at art school in Brighton and developed a shared passion for explosive noise, surreal lyrics, driving motorik beats and free improvisation - whilst never forgetting to keep a solid song foundation.The band have spent the last year recording their debut album and gigging around the UK and Europe with the likes of Do Make Say Think, Gravenhurst, Damo Suzuki and Sons of Noel and Adrian. The self-titled debut album was recorded live to capture the energetic interplay between the four members - guitar, bass, drums and cello - with some extra analog synths and warped electronics added to thicken the textures by the band and collaborator / co-conspirator Woodpecker Wooliams. Imagine songwriting and arrangements like those of This Heat and Portishead, delicately walking the fine line between noise and pop drawn up by Sonic Youth and Liars. The two tracks on this 7" were recorded during the album sessions, showing the more grand and atmospheric side of the band's sound. Both tracks seem to stagger into being, stuttering and stalling before beginning to gain pace, eventually taking off, soaring with transcendent grandeur, before being unceremoniously swallowed by an Italian tape echo unit named Melos.