“Stomping piano and moody harmonies” lead off latest album by Seattle-based carpenter, social media ignorer, multi-instrumentalist, Dave Boone.
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Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes as photographed by The Dead Eyes
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | In The Press
“A brief moment of transcendence.” — Treble
“Glam sensibility with an indie rock cool.” — Glide
"Simplicity and spaciousness that is rare." — Big Takeover
“As interested in the past as the future.” — Various Small Flames
“Sweeping... Incredibly rich and vibrant.” — Mystic Sons
“A journey to the heart of human vulnerability.” — IGGY
“It’s a joyful, playful sound built on the blues.” — Alt77
“It’s a winner from the first.” — NeuFutur
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes
Give Or Take
Out Now
(Dead Eyes Collective)
Streaming Link:
04. Wild Creature
05. Wannabe
06. Stop Gap Blues
07. Wicks
08. Bogachita Blues
09. Walk Walk
10. Welcome
11. Get There Faster
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Alberta
& The Dead Eyes | “So Cool”
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About | “So Cool”
“The stomping piano and moody harmonies put Boone’s gritty yet smooth vocals on fine display. This is the kind
of barroom viber that makes you want to soak up the night and see what’s out
there… this is an impressive little romp meant to get you stirred up the way a
good rock tune ought to do.” — Glide Magazine
“I wrote ‘So Cool’ on the piano and it is completely
based on that groove. I really wanted the piano groove to be 99 percent of the
song. Had the middle section not come to me, I would have been completely fine
with this one being 45-seconds long. Hah. I’d think the words speak for
themselves. ‘Such a joke. What a sham – from such a tiny boy comes such a
little man.’ I hesitate to be too pointed here. There’s a handful of ways one
could view this scene, and I tried to make it intentionally vague.” — Dave Boone, Alberta & The Dead Eyes
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Alberta
& The Dead Eyes | “Slow Fool”
“Vocal styling similar to legends such as Amy Winehouse.” — Lost In The Manor
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/AlbertaAndTheDeadEyes-SlowFool
Listen
to “Slow Fool,” the latest single
from Give Or Take by Alberta & The Dead Eyes via The Big Takeover here
or at the link
above.
“Kicks off without any fuss or fanfare and then builds
slowly, gathering almost imperceptible musical weight as it adds layers of
tones and texture around it along its journey. There is a simplicity and
spaciousness that is rare in music making circles today. But, when done
correctly, as it is here, that’s all you need.” — The Big Takeover
“I was living in the recording studio that whole year,”
Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes explains, “and it was wearing on me. I
locked myself in the control room for an entire day just for a change of pace
and I was listening to the radio. Sure enough I got bored and wrote this little
junker. This is one of those songs that just spilled out. ‘A little too low to
be that high.’ Pretty self explanatory to me.”
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | “Spiff”
Listen to “Spiff,” the first single from Give Or Take by Alberta
& The Dead Eyes via Treble here
or at the link
above.
“The song carries a swampy groove with a bit of a
mid-1970s tint to it a la peak Fleetwood
Mac, but with a rich backing of organ and layers of vocal harmonies that
rise into a brief moment of transcendence that fades nearly as soon as it
arrives. But vocalist Dave Boone’s
hollers and yelps make the path to and from that climactic chorus just as fun.
— Treble
“False hope or pure will sums up this song quite a
bit. The narrator never lets on too much here one way or the other. An edge of
confidence makes one believe both characters (the narrator and whomever they
are talking to) will get out of whatever they are in.
“The last line, ‘We know
what we’re in for this time.’” Yeah. I have some confidence there; I still
don’t know if I believe it. I know I want to by the end of this tune. I think
that’s the whole point of this song. Even the bass part mimics that sentiment,
swimming back and forth from root note hard rhythm to kind of solo counter
melody.” — Dave Boone, Alberta & The Dead Eyes
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes
“Ghost Kitty” EP
Out Now
(Dead Eyes Collective)
Streaming Link:
Track Listing:
02. Roofbeam Riser
04. Excavation Blues
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | About
Alberta & The Dead Eyes is the giant-sounding band that in reality is the majority work of one real-life carpenter, David Boone (or D. Boone as he often signs off, evoking another literal and figurative giant of musical history, D. Boon of The Minutemen.)
In fact, Boone’s
songs contain that same ramshackle joy and conversational, inclusive tone that Boon’s do. It’s the sound of a natural
talent letting it fly.
“I’m a carpenter by day and sometimes even by night,” Boone says. “A fine carpenter at that,
but a better musician.”
You may want to leave the page now to find out more
about Boone, but don’t bother. He
made the right choice. The choice that none of us made and many wish we had. Boone is nowhere to be found on social
media.
He lets the songs do the sharing.
Alberta
& The Dead Eyes released its
new 11-song album Give or Take on March
15, 2024. The album is preceded by “Ghost Kitty,” a four-song EP of additional songs, out now.
The songs on Give or Take represent a man in
withdrawal from a two-packs-a-day cigarette habit that went on for 15 years.
“Mama, did it fuck me up more than I expected,” Boone confesses. “I wrote the entire
record pretty much curled up in a ball.”
Grieving his relationship with nicotine while
composing, Boone kept company with
his influences, numerous and varied. So numerous and varied that mentioning a
handful isn’t going to help you any more than looking for Boone online will.
“I love Billie
Holiday. And The Stooges. And The Band. And Outkast. And Duke Ellington.
And Cole Porter. And David Sedaris. And Bill Watterson. And the Detroit
Pistons. And John fucking Prine.”
Boone doesn’t mention The
Minutemen, but likely would, if prompted.
“I mean Jesus, should I keep going?”
Get it?
The thing about Boone
as musician that isn’t likely is how much Boone
as carpenter makes it into his music. He doesn’t mention the Grateful Dead either, but the steadfast
focus that underpins Boone’s
freestyle nature is kinda Alberta &
The Workingman’s Dead Eyes.
“I’m a complete ‘no one is coming to save you’ type of
person,” he explains. “Keep your head down and do your job. Musician schmoosician. Do what your
supposed to fucking do. Write good songs. Play good shows. Show up on time. Be humble and be fucking nice.”
A real-life carpenter keeping it real-life real.
Refreshing.
It should be even less surprising now that musician Boone rejected Instagram squares for
T-squares just like he painfully swore off smokes cold turkey for the clean
lungs that arrived with the songs, or as Boone
sees it, he arrived to them.
“The songs are just there, hanging out, waiting for
someone,” he says.
Now that someone is you.
Alberta
& The Dead Eyes released its
new 11-song album Give or Take on March
15, 2024, preceded by “Ghost Kitty,”
a four-song EP of additional songs, out now.
Dave Boone of Alberta
& The Dead Eyes is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Alberta
& The Dead Eyes | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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