Solar Eyes Are “Murdering Hippies” On New Single

Birmingham, UK’s Solar Eyes will release their second full length, Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, on the 26th September via Fierce Panda Records, the album follows on from their 22024 self-titled debut. Their new single, Murdering Hippies, gives listeners their first taste of the hypnotic and shimmering lysergic charms dripping from Live Freaky! Die Freaky! A stuttering, spellbinding rhythm underpins the swirling vocals and glittering guitars with utterly captivating results.

“It was written during a blistering summers day in Skegness, with the caravan doors open and the cool fuzzy bass groove looping. It’s about the self-imposed psychological torment of being trapped inside the Manson cult. I was imagining I was desperate to escape but emotionally entangled with one of the girls. The song is about paranoia, drug-fuelled delusion, losing grip on reality, torn between love and survival, haunted by the knowledge that the person they love is capable of murder. The sample at the start is one of the girls, saying “Charlie tells us to be beautiful, and he let us be beautiful. My favourite lyric is the “I’ve been praying to my god, he said just forget that witch”. Dark and sinister yet written in a major key. But with the middle eight going to D Minor, for the ‘you saw me lose my mind bit’. Sonically, I guess I was going for the rawness of The Stooges and the swagger of Primal Scream.” (vocalist & guitarist Glen Smyth)