Octopus I love you on BBC Coventry Introducing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/articles/2007/06/27/bbc_introducing_feature.shtml

This week's show (23 and 25 April) features...

The Enemy - No Time For Tears

The 7.20s - Keep On Holding On

Devon Sproule - Aint That The Way

The Sizzling Gypsies - Holy Man

Senses - The Last Stand

Akeal - Start A Brigade

Café Racer - Drifters' Escape

Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones - Octopus I Love You

Clayton Denwood - Everyone's A Prisoner

Ben Harris Taylor - Stories End

Devon Sproule - Don't Hurry For Heaven

Japanese Cheese/Mushy Peas played on BBC Radio Bristol Introducing

11th April 2009
Iamundernodisguise : School Of Seven Bells
Daniel : Bat For Lashes
Have Your Ever Heard A Digital Accordion : The Lovely Eggs
Eggs : The Trachtenberg Family Sideshow Players
Run Run Run : Jimmy Left The Band
Bus Home : The Crisis Project
Dishwasher (Zoon Van Snook remix) : Fujiya & Miyagi
Computer Solvent : First And Last Men
Half Full Glass Of Wine : Tame Impala
Okinawa : Dufraine
Married To The Wolfman : The Millipedes
Black Hearted Love : PJ Harvey & John Parish
Fulsome Prison Blues (session) : Emily Breeze
On My Way Back : Little Scratch
Sometimes (session) : Ulysses
She’s on Fire : The Cuban Heels
If You Leave It Alone : The Wave Pictures
Moths Wings For Lisa : Sleeps In Oysters
Goodbye : Seeland
Lesson One (session) : Ulysses
French Navy : Camera Obscura
I’m Scared Of You Japanese Cheese : Dalmatian Rex And the Eigentones
I’m Not Scared Of You Mushy Peas : Dalmatian Rex And the Eigentones
The Gauntlet : C-Froo
Send Me An Angel Down : Kill It Kid
Love Of The World : Marshalsea
Seven Floors Of Pleasure : Paul Vickers & The Leg
No Use : Le Cul
Warships : The Ouija Birds
How Long : Malakai
Give Your Wrists : Ghast
Skeletons : Tiny Masters Of Today
Hot Chip : Let’s Tea Party
The Falling : Cajita
Old Panda Days : Casiotone For the Painfully Alone
Signs : Bloc Party

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Losing today review of Octopus I Love You

http://www.losingtoday.com/tales.php?id=256

Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones ‘octopus I love you’ (music 4 goldfish). The return of our favourite loons, how Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones have so far escaped institutionalisation is beyond us - mind you perhaps they have and are currently on the run, still whatever the case they occupy a rare and eccentric corner of pop’s ever expanding cosmos, a place where the lines between what passes for the great and genius and the whacked and weird blur, a place where the heralded and feted go unrecognised, unaccredited and largely ignored by the public at large, a place equally where the hopeless remain - er - hopeless. A brief run through of the admittance register would maybe read - Captain Beefheart, Viv Stanshall, Half Man Half Biscuit, the Fall, the Cravats and of course Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones. They have been a crucial part of our listening enjoyment for a good number of years, so blatantly obtuse, off the wall and so resistant to toeing the line they’ve hatched for themselves a world where only they exist, a world only they could exist. Latest release - incidentally a free download from their website - address below - features two cuts that initially appeared on their recent and I should hasten to add much loved here ‘psychedelic monsters’ set though here finding themselves culled from a session for the Mr Peel honouring Dandelion Radio. ‘Octopus I love you’ is braided by a loveably lilting and radiantly lazy eyed and summery laid back acoustic refrain that’s coloured coded with a swanky happy go lucky hand clapping dizziness that’s much reminiscent of the sparse lo-fi treatments applied by the Freed Unit to their criminally ignored ‘gigglegoo’ full length from a few years ago. Admittedly there are vague Barrett-esque impressions pickling the canvas and while the lyrics are barking in a one slate short of a roof type way there’s more than enough of a shyly effervescent crookedness here to suggest this lot can navigate their way around the pop sensibility maze and still emerge out of the exit with their credibility still intact. Flip over for ‘hairy monsters’ which for reasons best known only to us probably had us strangely recalling the Soft Hearted Scientists - well at least momentarily until that is it goes all Weddoes ‘sea monsters’ on us, throw in some childlike imagery, some kooky electronics, an underpinning of swathes of lunar like tides, some chugging guitars and we’re fast tracking a well beaten path up to the equally fried and foolishly neglected territories frequented by the Beatnik Filmstars. I wonder what medication their being prescribed these days? www.dalmatianrex.co.uk

And here’s the equally demented video…..fried stuff….you have been warned…