• Album Premiere: Exploding Eyes – Exploding Eyes

    January 18, 2017 - By 

    In his review of this, the Dublin progressive garage-rock trio’s self-titled debut album, TTA’s Trev Moran said Exploding Eyes “greets you with a welcoming invitation to something a little less serious and a lot more fun.” Sure enough, the ten-track release is something of a feature-length celebration of cutting loose without overthinking the dynamism that makes their craft so instantly gratifying. Having formed just over a year ago, the band – comprised of members of The Things, Cheap Freaks, Humanzi and The Mighty Stef – bursts forth from a lineage spearheaded by masters Blue Cheer, Mountain and Cream on the likes of…

  • Exploding Eyes – Exploding Eyes

    January 16, 2017 - By 

    With an eye cast to longer days, warmer weather, and the promise of a new year, the self-titled debut LP from Dublin’s gritty blues- rock trio Exploding Eyes greets you with a welcoming invitation to something a little less serious and a lot more fun. The album is scattered with callbacks to some of the more classic and legendary rock outfits from the golden age of blues pop culture, such as Cream, Janis Joplin, and even some Lynyrd Skynyrd in some of their softer tracks. Opening up the album in stellar form is the single ‘We Need Love’ – a track…

  • Exploding Eyes – Exploding Eyes

    December 7, 2016 - By 

    Dublin progressive psychedelic garage-rock trio Exploding Eyes release their eponymous debut album through US label Big Neck Records on December 9. Exploding Eyes was produced by Jim Diamond, who has worked on sonic titans like Dirtbombs, White Stripes & The Sonics. The LP is launched upstairs at Whelan’s on February 3, with support from psych-doomsters Wild Rocket and nugazers Galants, More details here. Prior to this, the band released two singles on Bandcamp. Channelling the likes of Hawkwind, Love & Pentagram, check out the album’s lead single, ‘Something Critical‘.

  • Watch: Exploding Eyes – We Need Love

    January 14, 2016 - By 

    Tipping their sonic to everyone from Mountain and Blue Cheer to Andromeda and Thee Oh Sees, Dublin heavy psych trio Exploding Eyes are streaming their emphatic new single, ‘We Need Love’. Evoking the likes of Jon Spencer and The Doors at their most resounding, it’s a wonderfully urgent, blue-soaked throwdown. In direct contrast, its b-side ‘Madman’s Lament’ is a restrained yet no less fervent effort from the three-piece. Out on Friday, January 22, We Need Love is the first single to be taken from Exploding Eye’s debut self-titled album, which is set for release via Big Neck Records in the summer.…

  • Fuzz w/ Exploding Eyes @ Whelan’s, Dublin

    September 4, 2015 - By 

    With garage and psych rock undergoing a serious resurgence over the last couple of years, most fans would agree that artists such as Thee Oh Sees, The Fresh & Only’s and Ty Segall have spearheaded its modern day rebirth. The latter name on that list – Ty Segall – in particular, would be viewed as being rather prolific due to the multitude of releases that he has put out since his self-titled 2008 debut. Since then he has collaborated on full length albums with White Fence, Mikal Cronin and most recently with tonight’s headliners Fuzz. As a result of it…

  • Inbound: Exploding Eyes

    May 6, 2014 - By 

    In this installment of Inbound we chat to Robbie, Al and Brian from Dublin based psychedelic rock band Exploding Eyes about their involvement in the Irish music scene over the years, their biggest influences and why getting stranded in Switzerland is not an option again! Hi lads, can you tell us about Exploding Eyes and where you got the name? Robbie: We’re a new band from Dublin playing rock music. name? Well I was hoping to call the band Flaming Lips but that seems to be taken so I just went for the next horrible thing that could happen to a part of…