Hollywood

A-Ok

Don't Blow It

ForgotToParty

Getting Late

Itty Bitty

KylieJames

Language Lessons

Never Alone

Say Say

Tickle

Lyrics:
Come to the party
At Mulholland and Kanan 
where the drinks are never on the house 
Bring all your jewelry 
and lay it about your feet in intricate patterns
And when you fall down—And when you fall down 
It won't catch you

I saw you at the party on Sunset and La Placenta 
Where you had to punch the doorman—in the nose 
and say something dirty about his mother
Just to get in—But no, not you—
I saw you sneak in through the side-door
And I never saw you drink from the punchbowl
So, what if I did—It was full of eraser rubbings
And when I choked—
I didn't choke alone

I'm afraid we're going to die
I'm afraid we're going to die
and that's okay because
We're so Pretty
Pretty enough to know
Pretty enough to never say goodbye
Pretty enough to die

Pretty

Lyrics:
I can’t seem to face up to the facts.
I’m tense and nervous and I... can’t relax.
I can’t sleep, cause my bed’s on fire.
Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire.

Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est? [What is it?]
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Run run run run run run run away
OH OH OH

Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est? [What is it?]
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Run run run run run run run away
OH OH OH 
AY AY AY AY AY WOO

You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est? [What is it?]
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run away
OH OH OH

Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est? [What is it?]
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run away
OH OH OH OH
AY AY AY AY 

Ce que j'ai fait, ce soir-là [What I did that night]
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir-là [What she said that night]
Réalisant mon espoir [Making my hope come true]
Je me lance vers la gloire ... okay [I hurl myself toward glory]
YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA 
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est? [What is it?]
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run away
OH OH OH

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est? [What is it?]
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away
OH OH OH OH
AY AY AY AY OOOH

Psycho Killer

Slept In Through Christmas

Lumière

Blue Red might have taken a year to create, but not for lack of diligence. From July 2010 – July 2011 Eyes Lips Eyes wrote, recorded and released direct to fan, one single, one B-side and one video per month all from the confines of their industrial China Town loft in Los Angeles. The twelve songs on Blue Red were astutely chosen from the year of tracking to form an album woven together by constant instrumental stimulation and provocative lyrical-styling, the two distinctive parts of the Eyes Lips Eyes quartet. 

The foundation of the group – a trio of bass, drums and guitar – arrange themselves in a way that at times resembles a track meet. On “Bear Trap” they groove in sync through a five-minute haul, building into a fervent, dead heat finish. Meanwhile, “Tickle” resembles a relay as the guitar plays a speedy, jubilant intro/chorus riff, before passing the baton to bass for a bouncy, verse counter-melody of it’s own. The upbeat, hook-laden parts, rehearsed at the band’s loft party-performances, recall elements of Television and other late seventies post punk, mixed with the unbridled, night out energy of The Strokes. Vocalist Tony Hello serves as a counter-weight to the trio, and at times too invokes Julian Casablancas’ or Alex Kapranos’ (Franz Ferdinand) swagger and command of melody. But beginning with opening track “Pretty” with its celebratory refrain of, “Pretty enough to die…” Hello exudes a quirkiness and unpredictability perhaps most akin to David Byrne (who’s song “Psycho Killer” is covered by Eyes Lips Eyes as track three). 

Just after finishing Blue Red, the never complacent Eyes Lips Eyes are touring across the Southern half of the U.S. with stops in Austin, Dallas, Miami, Athens and more. They finish the summer headlining the SmashBash in Utah, where they formed in 2007 before relocating to Los Angeles. This fall, the band will head to Seattle to enter the studio with producer/engineer John Goodmanson (Nada Surf, The Gossip, Sleater Kinney) to start work on a new EP. 


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