Landslide Eyes, by The Gentle Cycle

Landslide Eyes

by The Gentle Cycle

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1.	Like December Is Bold 03:49	buy track
2.	The Vines That Sway 01:10	buy track
3.	Ivy 05:05	buy track
4.	Celestial Stride 02:20	buy track
5.	Landslide Eyes 04:29	buy track
6.	Sad Angel Theme 00:58	buy track
7.	Run The Other Way 05:25	buy track
8.	Sun Spots 01:43	buy track
9.	Let Me Look At The Sun 05:08	buy track
10.	Sanctuary Dreams 01:14	buy track
11.	Sea Shell Blue 03:34	buy track
12.	Thank you, Mother Artists 01:12	buy track
13.	Eyes Landslide 04:23	buy track
14.	Mercury Twins 04:14	buy track
15.	Side 1 (vinyl mix) 22:46	buy track
16.	Side 2 (vinyl mix) 20:58	buy track

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Five years after the release of their acclaimed self-titled debut, The Gentle Cycle return with their second full-length album, the psychedelic masterpiece Landslide Eyes.

Primarily a collaboration between vocalist/guitarist Derek See and drummer/audio engineer Roger Brogan, Landslide Eyes features fourteen alluring songs artfully woven together into two continuous and dreamily immersive tracks, one for each album side. “I really wanted to make a record that was like an album from the 1969 to 1973 era,” says Derek, who has also played and recorded with The Rain Parade, The Chocolate Watchband, Country Joe McDonald, and The Hellenes. “Some people say that albums are a dead art form in the age of streaming, but I still love sitting down with Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon and things like that, and having that ‘album experience’ the way the artists intended.”

Completed just before California’s COVID-19 lockdown, the basic tracks for Landslide Eyes were recorded on a Tascam 388 analog tape machine.Despite its many challenges, life in quarantine allowed Derek and Roger (whose credits include work with Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, and Spectrum) ample time to finesse, fine tune and remix—and in some cases completely reconstruct—their tracks; unable to work together in the same space, they digitized the recordings and began collaborating via email, digitally adding new colors, textures and overdubs from their respective home recording studios.

“One of the things that kept me going during isolation was being able to still collaborate on music,” says Derek. “Of all the recording stuff that I’ve engineered in the past, 99.9 percent of it had been on tape, so working in the digital world was completely new to me. But I’m glad I did it, because it really helped save my sanity a lot of the time. It really established that even though we were by ourselves, we were still connected, and there was nothing to stop us from creating..."

“And it was so cool to be able to add stuff like vocal harmonies and guitar overdubs, and then send them off to Roger,” he continues. “He’s a great drummer, but he’s also exceptionally talented with mixing and mastering, and it would be so exciting whenever I got a mix back from him. He really cleaned up the tracks to where it still had the tape sound, while taking it to a whole other dimension of higher fidelity.”

Also involved in the Landslide Eyes file exchange was Aimee Lay, whose vocal harmonies adorn “Ivy” and “Let Me Look At The Sun”. “Aimee’s a really great L.A.-based singer and songwriter,” Derek says. “She’s got her own band and she’s put some cool stuff out, and right before lockdown she was starting to rehearse with us to be in The Gentle Cycle. We had to cancel the one show we’d booked with her when the pandemic started getting really bad, but we still really wanted her to be part of the whole thing. So it made me really happy to have her sing on the album.”

Lockdown also enabled Derek and Roger to focus on finding the perfect running order for the tracks, as well as devising the many musical threads that connect them. “From the beginning, I had the idea that this album was going to have little instrumental pieces that link the songs together,” Derek explains. “The songs I was writing all had similar kinds of themes to them, and I put a lot of thought into looking at it kind of like how Frank Zappa would approach it, finding certain pieces of the compositions and melody lines that could be repeated and used to segue into the next song. Of course, we had to find the right running order to really make it work, and it changed several times along the way—but when we locked into the final track listing, it really felt like how it was supposed to be.”

Though the influence of the original psychedelic era is powerfully tangible throughout Landslide Eyes, this is by no means a throwback album or a slavish recreation of past sounds. Seductive, hypnotic, deeply personaland joyously mind-expanding, the music of The Gentle Cycle draws upon a wide variety of inspirations ranging from the 1960s to the present day,yet remains entirely driven by their own perceptions and proficiencies. “I definitely wear my influences on my sleeve,” says Derek,“but I’ve never been interested in reproducing the sights and sounds of a particular era. I always want to take what I’ve learned from those folks and put my own spin on it.”

credits

released April 1, 2022

Produced by The Gentle Cycle (Derek See and Roger Brogan)
Mixed and mastered by Roger Brogan

Additional Contributions
Aimee Lay (vocals)
Scott Bassman (bass track 3,5,9,11,13,14)

All songs written by The Gentle Cycle except 'Let Me Look At The Sun' (Rennie-Manning)

Special thanks to The Rain Parade, The Chocolate Watchband, Dean & Britta, Sonic Boom. Courtney Knopf, Courtney Chavanell, Dani Hacche, Roy Kaiser, Michael Giordano, Mom & Ken, Roger's Mom & Dad, & Trooper.

Cover art by Dani Hacche
Graphic Design by Angeline King

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