Review: Tombstones in Their Eyes’ EP- ‘A Higher Place’

TITE Photo by @hunkydoris — Tombstones In Their Eyes. Photo by Karin Johansson

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EP REVIEW: A HIGHER PLACE by TOMBSTONES IN THEIR EYES

From: Los Angeles, California.

Genre: Shoegaze

Label: Kitten Robot Records

Release date: April 26th, 2022

TOMBSTONES IN THEIR EYES: John Treanor (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Stephen Striegel (drums, percussion), Josh Drew (bass, guitar), Paul Boutin (guitar, bass) and James Cooper (synths, midi-drum programming).

Art by Grant Jablecki (@vizible_ghost)

MY REVIEW

A Higher Place sees TITE expertly wield their signature brand of psychedelic, fuzzed-out rock, this time mixing it in with a more melodic approach. The new melodies help expand and evolve TITE’s sound and has allowed them to write some of their most hypnotic material to date. In the words of guitarist/vocalist John Treanor, “I love singing, and now, instead of ten layers of fuzz guitar, it can be six layers of harmonies on some songs, although we still do a lot of fuzz guitar.” – and so do I. Tombstones In Their Eyes is the perfect blend of psychedelic rock/shoegaze with splashes of reverb and fuzz noise that I love.

The song that spoke to me the loudest on the EP is a track called “I’m Not Living In Fear”, where the chorus of the song sounds like a daily affirmation.

“I’m not living in fear, and I don’t want to die”…

Many of us are still covid crazy, dealing with grief and loss, have major anxiety or all of the above. I’m not saying this song is the solution to your problems, but it is the ideal shoegaze soundtrack for these weird times. I am hoping for a new full-length album from these guys sometime in the future!

TRACK LIST

I Know Why

A Higher Place

I’m Not Living In Fear

Dreaming

Hidden In My Eyes

This River

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