Frog Eyes Band

Frog Eyes Band

Frog Eyes is back!

Head to East Van for Some Solid Local Tunes This Saturday, Nov. 19 19/11/2022

Head to East Van for Some Solid Local Tunes This Saturday, Nov. 19 Now that it's dark before dinnertime, we know how difficult it can be getting motivated to go out. A good gig is an excellent source of inspiration.

31/10/2022

Show alert:
Playing songs from:
The Bloody Hand, The Golden River, The Folded Palm, and The Bees. With the wonderful KCar. Nov 19th, The Lido

07/10/2022

Announcing a 4-track release of electronic skitter-scramble versions of Bees songs, out now at https://frogeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/before-the-bees

Frog Eyes | Interview | New Album, ‘The Bees’ - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine 16/06/2022

Thanks for the feature, It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine!

Frog Eyes | Interview | New Album, ‘The Bees’ - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine Vancouver-based band Frog Eyes is back. Their foray into making music as Soft Plastics is over. It’s fitting that Frog Eyes — comprising Carey Mercer (vocals, guitar), Melanie Campbell (drums), and Shyla Seller (synthesizer, electric piano) — has chosen 2022 to release their latest album, ‘T...

Frog Eyes The Bees Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic 16/06/2022

Thanks for the nice review, AllMusic!

Frog Eyes The Bees Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic Discover The Bees by Frog Eyes released in 2022. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

Victor Hong Berries #141 - Carey Mercer 26/05/2022

Had a great chat with Victor Hong - check it out!

Victor Hong Berries #141 - Carey Mercer Carey Mercer is a Canadian musician. He is a member of Frog Eyes, an indie rock band. Their latest album, “The Bees”, is available now.Follow Victor Hong:You...

Frog Eyes From Soft Plastic To The Bees: Interview 16/05/2022

Chatted with The 13th Floor's Marty Duda! Give it a listen.

Frog Eyes From Soft Plastic To The Bees: Interview Frog Eyes is back! 21 years after their debut album, they have just released The Bees. Here is Carey Mercer the story behind the making of The Bees.

13/05/2022

Beginnings today! Fantastic talk with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes! We talk beret-wearing townies, the Baháʼí community, The Hell’s Angels, manifesting through labor, teenage dysfunction & being saved by the wall of sound + MORE!

🎧 https://bit.ly/3L9lqWV

29/04/2022

Listen to our new album wherever you get your music.
https://ffm.to/zp6xpnz

Premiere: Frog Eyes Share New Track “The Bees” 29/04/2022

Premiere: Frog Eyes Share New Track “The Bees” Tomorrow, Vancouver indie rock outfit Frog Eyes are set to return with their new full-length album, The Bees. Arriving four years after the band temporarily disbanded in 2018, and twenty years after their debut LP, The Bloody Hand, the record sees the band exploring their storied past and shifting p...

Frog Eyes, “The Bees” 28/04/2022

'The Bees' comes out tomorrow! Check out this great review at FLOOD Magazine and get excited 🐝

Frog Eyes, “The Bees” Varying in length, tone, and setting, these 10 tracks sound like a new era for both Carey Mercer’s singing and his backing trio that have pushed him along.

19/04/2022

Announcement: a very special concert at Vancouver's China Cloud Studios to celebrate The Bees, a new Frog Eyes LP on Paper Bag Records and Wild Nights!, a Hello Blue Roses LP that will finally be 'staged'. email [email protected] for advance ticket information. 55 ticket capacity.

Frog Eyes Concoct a Medley of Surreal Images on New Single “Rainbow Stew” 05/04/2022

Listen to 'Rainbow Stew', premiering now at FLOOD Magazine!

Frog Eyes Concoct a Medley of Surreal Images on New Single “Rainbow Stew” After a stint as Soft Plastics, the Vancouver group’s return LP as Frog Eyes arrives April 29.

Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer tells us about their return and new single "I Was an Oligarch" 08/03/2022

We've got a new track premiering over at BrooklynVegan. Check it out!

Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer tells us about their return and new single "I Was an Oligarch" The newly revived Frog Eyes will release ‘The Bees‘ in April.

10/02/2022

Can't wait to see this pressing irl! 😍
Frog Eyes (Soft Plastics 5 Dreams)' upcoming album, 'The Bees', is going to be pressed on limited-edition, "charcoal sun" vinyl - head to our online shop to pre-order yours!
https://shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/the-bees

Frog Eyes Reunite, Announce New Album The Bees and Share New Song 09/02/2022

Big news over at Pitchfork! Get ready for 'The Bees', out April 29 via Paper Bag Records

Frog Eyes Reunite, Announce New Album The Bees and Share New Song “When You Turn on the Light” leads the band’s comeback record, out this spring

20/04/2021

In the absence of actually working on music together in person in a jam space, Carey asked me a bunch of questions and made this interview happen, ten years after I started playing with him and Mel: https://reissue.pub/articles/lateral-beaming-a-conversational-portrait-of-the-diffuse-supports-of-archivist-editor-musician-shyla-seller

reissue.pub critical discourse for experimental art practices

Aus den Tiefen: SOFT PLASTICS – 5 Dreams (review) 23/08/2020

https://guteshoerenistwichtig.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/soft-plastics-5-dreams-review

Aus den Tiefen: SOFT PLASTICS – 5 Dreams (review) (photo & allights: SOFT PLASTICS / Force Field PR) ° ° ° SOFT PLASTICS. Ok, denke ich mir, das klingt halb bekannt und halb interessant. Wer soll das sein, denke ich mir. Und dann, ich fliege m…

Soft Plastics — 5 Dreams (Paper Bag) 24/06/2020

Soft Plastics — 5 Dreams (Paper Bag) 5 Dreams by Soft Plastics Soft Plastics is Carey Mercer’s new band following the dissolution of Frog Eyes a few years back. At the time it seemed improbable that such a prolific and vociferous...

Carey Mercer's New Band Soft Plastics Score Big with Debut '5 Dreams' 05/06/2020

https://www.popmatters.com/soft-plastics-5-dreams-review-2646111372.html

Carey Mercer's New Band Soft Plastics Score Big with Debut '5 Dreams' Two years after Frog Eyes dissolved, Carey Mercer is back with a new band, Soft Plastics. 5 Dreams and Mercer's surreal sense of incongruity should be welcomed with open arms and open ears.

05/06/2020

Soft Plastics 5 Dreams' new album release day 💚 ⬇️
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Soft Plastics 5 Dreams' new album is finally here 💚 ⬇️
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Soft Plastics' '5 Dreams' Continues Where Frog Eyes Left Off 04/06/2020

Soft Plastics' '5 Dreams' Continues Where Frog Eyes Left Off Carey Mercer, the mastermind behind Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach and one-third of art-rock supergroup Swan Lake — is known for pushing sonic...

03/06/2020

UPDATE: Cancelling tonight's planned listening party. Feeling devastated and disgusted by state-funded murders of poor people of colour and ongoing state violence, militarization and oppression. This week, especially, we're listening instead to black and brown voices and researching what can be accomplished by defunding police budgets. Dismantle white supremacy, Islamophobia and antisemitism. Please take care, we will celebrate this release with you another time. Paper Bag Records

27/05/2020

Cancelling tonight's planned listening party. Feeling devastated and disgusted by state-funded murders of poor people of colour and ongoing state violence, militarization and oppression. This week, especially, we're listening instead to black and brown voices and researching what can be accomplished by defunding police budgets. Dismantle white supremacy, Islamophobia and antisemitism. Please take care, we will celebrate this release with you another time.

Tickling Our Fancy 086: Les Frères Smith, Love-Songs, Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro, Soft Plastics… 25/05/2020

Well written and thoughtful review from Monolith Cocktail, thank you Dominic Valvona: https://monolithcocktail.com/2020/05/25/tickling-our-fancy-086-les-freres-smith-love-songs-valentina-magaletti-marlene-ribeiro-soft-plastics/

Tickling Our Fancy 086: Les Frères Smith, Love-Songs, Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro, Soft Plastics… Reviews Roundup/Dominic Valvona Easing the boredom of coronavirus lockdown – though many of our international followers, and those across the border in England, are tentatively coming out of …

Frog Eyes, Paul's Tomb: A Triumph 25/05/2020

Frog Eyes, Paul's Tomb: A Triumph Amongst the Cancon Class of 2010, the award for Most Likely to Make the Most Under-appreciated Album of the Year goes to Frog Eyes for Paul's Tomb: A Triumph.

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