I love the way this breaks up. The joanna sounds lovely. Top work

Fantastically great song - - good to see it up here today.  : )

I dig it. Vocals remind me of The National which is a good thing.

Love your vocals, very cool and unique. Reminds me of the band The National (please take that as a compliment). Love the piano in this song, great melody. Love when the bass kicks with the distorted guitar around 2:30. Great, noisy ending!

Great concept! Like the percussion's allot! reminds me a tad of The Nationals, well delivered vocals!

I'm also hearing a little bit of Lambchop going on here - also a good thing!

Those drums should be getting a real whacking at this point

Various Eggs realize that their first release will set the expectations for all releases that follow.  With this in mind, their initial E.P. reflects a wide breadth of influences.  If the next release were a horror movie soundtrack, it could be anticipated by this E.P.  If the next release were a cover of the entirety of Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night, this could be anticipated by the E.P. as well.  And somewhere between these extremes lie Various Eggs.

Lyrics:

You’re the biggest, greatest fish in this fragile shrinking pond. 
You've got that act down well. You’re the center of this song. 

And that’s so great hun, let’s put it on the fridge. 
And that’s so great hun, come to get, come tuck me in. 

You've kept yourself enabled. I applaud you for that. 
But, the act you’re keeping up has its well bored out cracks. 

You’re the biggest, greatest fish in this, but it’s such a sad pond.
It’s a survival skill. Hell, it’s worked for this long.

Biggest Fish

The cat’s out of the bag… Our new 3 track E.P. is coming out on November 3rd! It’s also up and live on Bandcamp already because, well, I messed up.  Anyway, I’m thrilled to finally have released Five Four Girls. 

We started working on these songs at Rabid Ears Recording back in 2019 with the intention of releasing them as this E.P. From those recording sessions, only the drum tracking for the title track has made it to this release. Tricia and I recorded (or re-recorded) everything else at our own homegrown studio that we refer to as Mushroomtopia. The reason for that nickname is obvious if you’ve ever seen my moss-covered yard after a rainstorm.

"Five Four Girls" and "To Jenny" are songs written as a character.  They aren't me.  They aren't Tricia. But, it was fun to go to such unsavory places for some pretty creepy songs.

"Drone Bomb You" is an attempt to write something of a geo-political song.  And, boy, that is a difficult thing to write.  The song ended up a critique of another songwriter's attempt to write an urgent song about the state of politics. Kyle from Book of Wyrms guests on lead guitar on this song!

I thank Tricia for continuing to work with me and for enthusiastically jumping into the role of production partner. I thank Allen Bergendahl for his ongoing support, friendship, expertise and advice. I thank Kyle Lewis for many hours of shredding. I thank Laura Manchester for embracing my visual ideas and running with them to fantastic results. And thank you to Todd, Ben and Jake; “Five Four Girls” wouldn’t be what is without you.

-Lawrence Joseph

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