MONSTER BEAT
Highlights from the album? Laugh in the Dark by the Invisible Eyes is nothing but highlights as far as I am concerned. “All killer, no filler” as the saying goes. There are three very short instrumental passages, “YMA”, “Trapezoid Stomp” and “Whiskey Vampire”; the latter track barely runs 30 seconds, but the world would definitely be a sadder place if it did not exist, let me tell you. “Trapezoid Stomp” sounds a little like a first draft of the last and best song, “That Old Song . . .”; there is that same “Dum-da-dum-da-dum-da-da-dum-dum” beat. “Monster Beat” starts with a smear of sound that could have been a defect on the CD, but I guess it is supposed to be like that.
(December 2012)
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There are several videos by the Invisible Eyes on YouTube; only “Monster Beat” though has been viewed much – at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rns3nc0vSs – and evidently I was the first to view “Mother of Mystery”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVVa8omw8g . I have difficulty with searches on YouTube, and maybe others do as well. Additionally, numerous videos (maybe the majority) don’t have any sound on my computer at home for some reason. I just updated Flash Player, and it helped get ones by Cyrus Erie to play, but not these for the Invisible Eyes.
(December 2014)
