Album Reviews
Reasons To Live
6.0
Hilly Eye is Amy Klein on guitars and vocals and Catherine Tung on the drums. Klein you might already know as the former guitarist for Titus Andronicus. Tung however didn’t really learn how to play the drums until three years ago. Which was around the time Hilly Eye started taking form.
The guitar buzzes away nicely as if it was looking for a Sofia Coppola soundtrack to fit in, drums rumble on and meanwhile Klein is singing hushed lullabies that stand in shrill contrast to the violence in the lyrics.
It all works for a couple of songs until I found that I couldn’t tell one song apart from the next one. In such cases we sometimes refer to an album as cohesive, at other times however we call it boring.