Description
This reissue celebrates the tenth anniversary of The Helio Sequences landmark album Keep Your Eyes Ahead with a full remaster of the original album, plus a second album of demos, alternate versions, and outtakes from the same era.
After 3 albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary album,Keep Your Eyes Ahead.Keep Your Eyes Aheadmarried the Portland duos signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp songwriting and a relatively minimalist approach. The finger picking on Shed Your Love is backed by exquisite strings and ambient noise, but Summers serene, self-assured delivery remains front and center. While songs from the bands early releases spanned up to 7 minutes, even the longest, lushest, catchiest track onKeep Your Eyes Ahead(fiery anthem Hallelujah) clocks in at 4 and a half minutes, evidence of just how refined their craft had become. Vocals were recorded spontaneously in bedroom closets and living rooms, which may explain the haunting urgency you hear in Brandons voice, especially on the driving title track.
Produced by the band,Keep Your Eyes Aheadconfirms in The Helio Sequence an energy and a range that continues to defy narrow categorization. Unapologetic pop and folk meld seamlessly to create songs that are bigger, more epic and polished than anything theyve ever done.Keep Your Eyes Aheadis the sound of a band and a decade-old partnership thats been invigorated. And thats exactly how the songs will make you feel: invigorated.
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