release the bats #3 BLACK EYES - SOME BOYS/SHUT UP I NEVER 7" Black Eyes consist of two drum kits, two basses, one guitar, one 'piano', some additional percussion, and some mouths. Black Eyes admire the UK rhythm of The Slits, The Pop Group, and Gang Of Four mixed with US no wave and dance punk of Liquid Liquid and DNA to the afro-beat of Fela Kuti. Throw togething Einsturzende Neubaten, The Ex, Faust, dub, Can, Black Flag, Miles Davis, The Birthday Party, Brian Eno, Haitian Rara and IDM. PRESSING INFO! 525 made, all on black/brown splitted vinyl. brown stamped sleeves. mailorder edition #ed to 25 with yellow sleeves. REVIEWS! mashnote collective zine voidfaith Ok. I don´t like to picking favorites in the RTB catalog and so on, but when it comes to the music (and just the music alone), this 7" will most likely always be up there in the top for me. Those 2 songs... I really can´t describe in words how much i love them. All over the place madness. The 7" was released just in the beginning of the whole post punk revival and comparing this to The Rapture, Radio 4 and all those other bands that suddenly got big over one nigt you can see how much better and more interesting this was than everything else that came out around the same time. Black Eyes put out 2 albums on Dischord which both was very good (although i think that many will agree that they never really touched the spirit of the material on this 7" again), and disbanded a couple of years ago. The 2 songs on this 7" will never die, some kid will dig them up in 20 years from now and be as excited as i was when i first heard them. - Matthias Andersson, September 2006