Posted by: Johnny Loftus on December 13, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Eons, Eons (Self-released demo, 2007)
Listen: “Getchya Guitar On”
[audio:http://www.detour-mag.com/audio/GetchyaGuitarOn.mp3]
It was a pleasant Saturday afternoon this past September when Eons decided to give the mixed crowd of rockers, toddlers, barbecuers, and awed had-no-idea-ers a the kind of set you’d see 400 times if it had only been Austin, Texas and not Detour’s own launch party. (Which was still fucking awesome; don’t get it twisted.) Eons, a band made up of types from both the Metro Detroit area and Richmond, Virg., have just this three-song EP/demo and a few other tracks (for now) to prove to the masses that it wasn’t the heat or the salt-n-vinegar chips that day in the sun that made them look, act, and most of all sound like the kids who might save indie rock.
You remember indie rock, right? Before the beards and the pegged jeans and the shipping containers full of indifference? The 1990s, in other words? That’s what hit us the most that day in the September sun: That between Justin Bailey’s croaking Jarvis Cocker and the fuzz and blister flying off the fingers of Arun Bali, we felt like we were watching some unknown band of geniuses open for Sugar at the 40 Watt in 1992. It’s only three songs, and they’re only a band. But fuck if we’re not already saying we booked them when. Step one, getchya guitar on. — Johnny Loftus
[tags]Eons, indie rock, Sugar, Richmond, Jarvis Cocker[/tags]




