TRACK REVIEW: Belle Skies – BFEggman/Glass in the Waves

Belle Skies from Gosforth drop a contrasting pair of extended cuts chock full of surprises.

The dreamy, surrealist poetry of Glass In The Waves is a half-sung elegy set around the precarious cliffs of Vane Tempest beach. A sense of searching in the lyrics mirrors the band’s quest to find their own sound, a changing kaleidoscope of textures churns like the North Sea.

Sibling single BFEggman is a nine-minute meander through several sections of psychedelic grunge. Melvins-worthy guitar chugs and a Cobain-adjacent vocal eventually give way to spectral saxophones and soaring strings. A section change brings an uneasy polyrhythm, and another some introspective guitar soloing. A fully loaded Christmas tree of a track, well decorated with idea baubles.