The Cast - Yeah Yeah Yeah - Limited - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 . Frog Eyes is back! After a brief stint as Soft Plastics, Frog Eyes-comprising Carey Mercer (vocals, guitar), Melanie Campbell (drums), and Shyla Seller (synthesizer, electric piano)-have chosen 2022 to their latest album, The Bees. The Bees is ten songs that feel expansive-taking the listener on a whirlwind adventure to meet the ghosts of Frog Eyes past, present, and future-each track possessing the tempo necessary to incite a room filled with people to move. Despite the past being an inspiration for the album, the sound is fresh, brimming with the vitality of the here and now. With it's evocative lyrics, confident instrumentation, and virtuosic ease of sound that only a decades-long collaboration can yield, The Bees is the perfect album to herald in a new era.

Yeah Yeah Yeah just arrived out of the blue. I just took a chance. I had some ideas for a new album I'd been working on, but we weren't planning on recording until the year after. It all happened very fast. There was a window of opportunity- youth was free, the studio was free, and the band were free- and I thought, let Providence prevail. No one had heard the songs apart from myself and Alan McGee, but we both thought that we had something. You could feel it, even though none of the songs were really finished, and so we decided to roll with it and go and record them. I think with Yeah Yeah Yeah it was more than just trying to capture a vibe- it was about trying to record something majestic, which is how youth describes the record. There are gospels and strings on tracks like Free Love and don't look away, which have kind of turned into these massive anthems. It has P.P. Arnold as a featured vocalist on a couple of tracks- the first, the single poison vine, which has a groove and a blistering chorus. She's also on another song that's a psychedelic funk track the way it's gotta be (oh yeah). Songs like Teardrops or Birds Heading South- we've tried to capture that classic, slightly Wistful theme- whereas the weight of the world just rocks out. There's also a little acoustic track to break it all up called the devil and the deep, which is a favourite of mine. We recorded the album over in Spain at space mountain, Youth's studio, way up in the mountains, just as the almond trees were in blossom- which I took as a good omen for the session.

Yeah Yeah Yeah just arrived out of the blue. I just took a chance. I had some ideas for a new album I'd been working on, but we weren't planning on recording until the year after. It all happened very fast. There was a window of opportunity- youth was free, the studio was free, and the band were free- and I thought, let Providence prevail. No one had heard the songs apart from myself and Alan McGee, but we both thought that we had something. You could feel it, even though none of the songs were really finished, and so we decided to roll with it and go and record them. I think with Yeah Yeah Yeah it was more than just trying to capture a vibe- it was about trying to record something majestic, which is how youth describes the record. There are gospels and strings on tracks like Free Love and don't look away, which have kind of turned into these massive anthems. It has P.P. Arnold as a featured vocalist on a couple of tracks- the first, the single poison vine, which has a groove and a blistering chorus. She's also on another song that's a psychedelic funk track the way it's gotta be (oh yeah). Songs like Teardrops or Birds Heading South- we've tried to capture that classic, slightly Wistful theme- whereas the weight of the world just rocks out. There's also a little acoustic track to break it all up called the devil and the deep, which is a favourite of mine. We recorded the album over in Spain at space mountain, Youth's studio, way up in the mountains, just as the almond trees were in blossom- which I took as a good omen for the session. Album Tracks 1. Poison Vine 2. Don't Look Away 3. Calling Out Your Name 4. Free Love 5. Say Something New 6. Way It's Gotta Be (Oh Yeah) 7. Devil and the Deep 8. Weight of the World 9. Teardrops 10. Birds Heading South