Description

This reissue celebrates the tenth anniversary of The Helio Sequences landmark Keep Your Eyes Ahead with a full remaster of the original album plus a second album of demos, alternate versions and outtakes from the same era.

After three albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary album. Keep Your Eyes Ahead married the Portland duos signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp songwriting and a relatively minimalist approach. The finger picking on Shed Your Love is backed by exquisite strings and ambient noise but Summerss serene, self-assured delivery remains front and centre.

While songs from the bands early releases spanned up to seven minutes, even the longest, lushest, catchiest track on Keep Your Eyes Ahead (fiery anthem Hallelujah) clocks in at four and a half minutes, evidence of just how refined their craft had become. Vocals were recorded spontaneously in bedroom closets and living rooms, which may explain the haunting urgency you hear in Brandons voice, especially on the driving title track.

Produced by the band, Keep Your Eyes Ahead confirms in The Helio Sequence an energy and a range that continues to defy narrow categorization. Unapologetic pop and folk meld seamlessly to create songs that are bigger, more epic and polished than anything theyve ever done. Keep Your Eyes Ahead is the sound of a band and a decade-old partnership thats been invigorated.

Double LP includes digital download coupon.