Search - Eddy Dyer :: Explosion Alone

Iron & Wine, Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, and all other

David P. Iverson | 11/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a young boy I remember hearing music blasting from a boombox outside my house on the streets of Lowell MA...looking out the window I saw a little kid wearing a jean-jacket walking by & cranking his tunes, oblivious to the world around him. For some reason the vision intrigued me, and I'd watch for him whenever I'd hear the approaching squelch of his radio. Years later that little boy became the musician who penned what is in my opinion one of the best psych-folk records EVER, in "Explosion Alone". Why this album hasn't yet received the praises of the high church of indie-rock acceptance while artists like Banhart and Stevens are riding high on such surf is beyond me completely. The lyrics, melodies and arrangements are other-worldly and beautifully soulful. The hooks are sharp enough to make grown men weep and the exuberance for music that Eddy personified in childhood, completely absorbed in his world of song, has never diminished, only grown. Lowell Massachusetts will one day be known to the world not only as Jack Kerouac's hometown, but as the birthplace of one of the most important musicians in the new millenium, Eddy Dyer."