Gang Gang Dance -- Eye Contact

By Michael Lopez Tue., May 3 2011 at 12:15 PM

Categories: Album Stream

Stream Gang Gang Dance's Eye Contact right now

Don't look now, but May is shaping up to be quite the solid month for new releases. April was no slouch and June looks very, very promising, but May is here right now, kicking ass and chewing gum. And guess what? May just ran out of gum.

Fleet Foxes kicked May off in the proper fashion, releasing what I consider to be the year's best album thus far. In only a week's time, however, New York experimental rockers Gang Gang Dance will unleash their beast of an album, Eye Contact.

Lucky for us, the fine blokes at NME are offering a full album stream of Eye Contact until its release date on May 10.

We've had the 11-minute lead single "Glass Jar" for a few months, itself the perfect indicator of how Eye Contact was to build on the momentum of Gang Gang Dance's last album, 2008's well-received St. Dymphna. Both albums are truly anything but normal, and that is a wondrous thing.

"Glass Jar" is a brilliant lead track, building a torrid momentum that allows songs like "Adult Goth" and "Romance Layers" to mind the gap while being indescribably amazing in their own right. Gang Gang Dance truly is on their own level with Eye Contact, and there's really not much else I can say about the album that can't be conveyed by listening to the stream above.

Eye Contact is out 5/10 via 4AD. May is throwing down proper, son!