Beady Eye's new track 'Flick Of The Finger' has been played on Californian radio station KCRW – listen to it below.
Beady Eye are changing. Heading back into the studio last year, the band seemed determined to escape the sound which dominated their debut album. Recruiting Dave Sitek as producer, rumours emerging from the studio indicated that the group were heading in a new direction.
With their second album set to drop later this year, Beady Eye allowed Californian radio station KCRW first play of new track 'Flick Of The Finger'.
In short: they've definitely changed. There's a nagging psychedelia here, a rough, raw guitar sound more in keeping with Andy Bell's shoegaze pioneers Ride. Laden with horns, there's a defiant feel matched by a spoken word sample reciting the words of the French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat.
"Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces…"
Listen to it below. (via NME)