FROG EYES Share First Single + Video For “E-E-Y-O-R-E (That’s Me!)” From Their Forthcoming 2025 New LP
Cult-rock band, Frog Eyes announce their new single, single and video for “E-E-Y-O-R-E (That’s Me!)” and a forthcoming new record for 2025. It will be their second album since reforming in 2021 and amounts to their tenth record in a consistently bewildering and inspired catalogue. Formed at the turn of the century, brushing shoulders with fellow travellers/beloved songwriters and musicians, beloved but never in the dead epicenter of a scene or a marketable, commodified era.
“I don’t normally write riffs. I only have 34 to 42 minutes to stake my claim, paint my picture, fill up the corners, and, I can lean towards jamming as many words in as I can. But I’m limiting the amount of words, images, pictures from my consciousness, and in the limiting, we’re opening up some more space for the instrumentation. So E-E-Y-O-R-E has that riff that happens in the middle and end of the song, and it’s rare, and I like it,” says Carey Mercer for the band. “The song itself is a bit about loneliness, fear, isolation: the irony that we all are simultaneously bombarded with these isolating emotions, but unable to bust out of these individual spheres. Eeyore: our collective familiar, our beloved daemon.”
“When Carey sent E-E-Y-O-R-E over to see if I had any video ideas, the song title alone got my mind moving. And after listening through a few times, and thinking about the lore of Eeyore, this archetype of sadness that he encapsulates, it made me wonder what other characters put out a similar image of loneliness,” says director Derek. “For whatever reason, black metal guys seemed to make sense to me as a visual representation of those emotions. And even though this look behind the curtain of a quite extreme form of artistic expression is portrayed rather humorously, my feeling is that all types of art-making tend to be pretty vulnerable to pursue in their own ways.”
“It’s economical in form, distinctive and effective, all describers that we strive for,” echoes Carey.
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“E-E-Y-O-R-E (That’s Me!)” has an anthemic feel that sticks with you, much like the quiet, lingering weight of the emotions it so powerfully captures. The chorus, in particular, lodges itself in your head, its haunting simplicity echoing long after the song ends.