Some reviews of the new album!!
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Damien Ching – Rivmixx Magazine
Once Around The Sun’ by Eskimo Project is a good easy listening indie album. It’s got a touch of ’70s rock about it and a sprinkle of the Beach Boys.
The first single, ‘Hydrogen Bomb’, is one that Rivmixx thinks you should put on your iPod when you go for you early morning run. ‘Time’ is truly worthy for its shout outs to Tesco and Woolworths. And ‘Your Signals Fading Out’ – a track about relationships breaking up; when someone you love doesn’t want to be with you – has a really mellow-acoustic intro that’s then woken up by a drum beat and is hard to ignore.
If Eskimo Project only set out to make good music and not focus on a number one selling album they have truly succeeded. This is not an album to be over looked and left on the shelf.
Eskimo Project seem like one of those bands that would be amazing to see live.
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Micky Watson – Hameldon FM
Thought the Eskimo Project album was excellent and had some very radio friendly indie vibes. Will get spot plays from various jocks on their shows.
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Rich Kemp – UK Music
Blissfully starting as they mean to go on, ESKIMO PROJECT show exactly what they have to offer with first track Fly In The Ointment. A quick-burning, easy listener, it melts in the mouth like a super-friendly skip crisp.
Once Around The Sun jumps on swiftly through Grey Matters to pop delight Time: a letter to the public, pleading for them not to waste their lives glued to pointless game shows and even more pointless lives of celebrities.
Eskimo’s hazy voice – akin to a young PAUL MCCARTNEY – works beautifully, neatly placed inside the folds of melodious guitar and soft bass.
The glorious Your Signal’s Fading Out offers a loving display of crescendo, while the sweet importance of Invisible Man shoves the unloved man’s woes right in front of you with a series of sugar-coated refrains before kicking you in the shins with his pain.
The barbershop-like group sing-songs work well against the crunching guitar, raising a collective smile on such tracks as More To Life?
The sheer cool of Fair Cop whisks you away on a sped-up train ride, while Stay spins you round on a lovely, gleaming carousel.
The finale, Rumbled, acts as a plinky, soothing number until ripping into its harmonious chorus, declaring the trifling anxieties that goodbyes can bring.
A lovely, easily-accessed record, Once Around The Sun manages to grab you from the very first second, while its delicious pop keeps you grinning idiotically the whole way through.
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Dan Searles – Die Shellsuit Die
Once Around The Sun – total singalongability from start to finish
From the start with Fly in the Ointment you get songs that you can easily remember, sing and dance along to. The stand out track of the album for me is single Hydrogen Bomb, which is power pop at its best. Apparently this album was made on the shoe-iest of strings which is quite simply amazing as the quality of the production is awesome.
I look forward to hearing more from Eskimo Project in the future. 8/10
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Andrew Venning – CSR 97.4 FM
This works really well as an album, it has such a great flow to it and running throughout is a beautiful sunny feel. However rather than being simply a lazy sprawling summer collection of songs of songs there is some bite here, Time particularly comes to mind as one such example and also Invisible Man. Each track here sounds good enough to stand alone as accomplished songs, but as a whole they just work even better. A very well crafted album.
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Anver Anderson – Saint FM
The album starts with a rhythmic and overdriven guitar piece, “fly in the ointment”… it’s anything but! A cracking start to an album I want to keep on the deck to check what’s next.
Hydrogen Bomb lures you into thinking it’s a simple acoustic number and then.. like all good atomic reactions.. hits you out of nowhere in a melodic explosion of “feel good”… there’s a very active bass line, securing this catchy hook into your brain.
Grey Matters took me back to a psychedelic era…. lots of Beatles influence here (particularly in the drumming…. and of course the sitar) – which is not a bad thing… the outro wouldn’t go amiss in a dingy coffee house in Calcutta.
Time…..with a lyric that will undoubtedly fade with time – as people forget what an xbox was and Woolworths….who? though might go down well at festivals…
Dreaming of Summer – is definitely a festival song!! Again the bass line punctuates the direction of the song – with a delicate vocal creating imagery of dandelion sugars being blown aimlessly across green meadows and girls in their summer dresses, lying on their back, ripe for the kissing of…
Your Signal’s fading out really gives the opportunity for the vocalist to shine, and he takes it with great aplomb.
You might not be able to see the Invisible Man – but this track is a favourite with Saint FM’s Unsigned audience. A great crunch guitar sound breaking through the vocal without feeling the need to break into a 32 bar lead break with all fingers flying… a rare treat! Tasteful.
Is there “more to life” than music – I think not! Refined keyboards and great harmony work.
Ah – we take another trip back to the Beatles for “fair cop” with a touch of ELO and Oasis and just a tad of King… and finally an electric lead break striding over the middle section.
Stay – an anthem for broken hearted lovers the world over… I can see the mp3’s being whizzed all round the internet begging them….not to go!
Rumbled, sounds like it is a close relation of its predecessor “Stay” I wonder if they were written in the same time frame – a gentle finish to an accomplished album.
Eskimo Project –“I knew it” would be a good album!!! (sorry for the Inuit pun – couldn’t resist). An album seemingly without ego or massive lead breaks – and so much the better for that!
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Liz Hardwick – Preston FM
Eskimo Project – Fly in the ointment and hydrogen bomb tracks, have gone onto our A list!
