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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.
Telyscopes - Ballad of the Egg Moon
My work at Groover is pretty decent most times, it involves listening to songs and review them. Usually I share them on my collective ‘are you ready to groove?’ - and then sometimes I am faced with an absolute talent I’m grateful to have found in my inbox. Yes, I’m very quick at finding new and upcoming bands and artists on the wide internet, also appreciate though once in a while when someone recommends me the music, the opener of the opening act at the gig is fantastic or simply YouTube, the only reliant music discovery app nowadays, recommends me some indie video. The other day, one of these happened and Telyscopes was in my inbox.
Ballad of the Egg Moon captured my breath from the first second listening to it, so many layers that keep me hooked throughout the entire song, my ears were like “no, let's focus on the guitars, now on the vocals, now on the bass, now on the percussion, now on vocals again, wait what is this, now back on the guitar” - it was quite the listening experience.
There’s a dreamy-ness to the song, which doesn’t surprise me as most songs I choose to review and write on, that are occupying my on-repeat playlists, are indeed dreamy and can be considered OG indie with lyrics that make you twist the words and by the end of the night question if you’ve just read a masterpiece of poem or someone’s vent on another past heartbreak. Like Ballad of the Egg Moon serves the listener.
Sea-green sweating sheets
What awful thing breathes down your spine?
And whose name will you whisper?
Into your pillow after mine?
Weirdly enough, my own poetry mirrored many times my greatest love for the moon, as well as whispering names of past ghosts into pillows. I loved, and I mean that, when Jack Hubbell, “multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creative, and home-studio mad scientist” (Taylor Ruckle, The All Scene Eye), sent me “supplementary reading” that ended up being the poem “Ballad of the Moon Moon” by Federico García Lorca.
I feel like I haven’t written a song review today, I feel like a professor who assigned you to truly listen to the lyrics and the instrumentals of this song. Quite looking forward to interviewing Jack soon on the upcoming album of Telyscopes.
watch a music video for another song of theirs ‘Metamorphosis’:
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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.
Here’s a poem of Bonnie’s that fits well while listening to ‘Ballad of the Egg Moon’ - it’s the one where I talk about pillow talks and ghosts of past heartbreaks: