Album Info

Blue Planet Eyes

By The Preatures

Rock - 2014

It takes Sydney outfit The Preatures just 35 minutes to pack the 10 songs on their debut album with a... more

Tracklist

1

Blue Planet Eyes

3:03 min
2

Somebody's Talking

3:27 min
3

Is This How You Feel?

3:34 min
4

Ordinary

3:48 min
5

Two Tone Melody

4:26 min
6

Rock and Roll Rave

3:50 min
7

Whatever You Want

3:02 min
8

Cruel

2:57 min
9

It Gets Better

3:32 min
10

Business, Yeah

2:53 min

About Blue Planet Eyes

It takes Sydney outfit The Preatures just 35 minutes to pack the 10 songs on their debut album with a musicality that veers from lower East Side ’70s chic (“Is This How You Feel?”) to indie-pop (“Ordinary”) to anthemic Britpop (“It Gets Better”). Such economy and efficiency betray the scale of instrumental complexity at play, all of which is honed into a deceptively simple pop album courtesy of producer (and Spoon drummer) Jim Eno. Vocalist Isabella Manfredi approaches the songs with a detached air of cool despite infusing them with deep emotion. Weary closer “Business, Yeah” is a song laden with regret and self-doubt as Manfredi aches for a former lover: “My hands didn’t understand what they were holding”. Taking its name from a line in the Mercury Rev song “You’re My Queen”, Blue Planet Eyes also sees Manfredi drawing on her immediate surrounds for inspiration, with the funk-tinged, sexually-charged “Rock and Roll Rave” immortalising Sydney venues such as Club 77 and Brighton Up Bar: “Well you know that little place you like to go after dark”.