Eugene McGuiness - The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuiness (Album)
These days it’s so much harder to do what you love without being assigned to a label or a genre, but listening to Eugene McGuinness is like…not caring, or forgetting and remembering all at once. When you listen to him you almost forget that anything except ‘now’ matters and simultaneously remember things you haven’t thought about for years, like the Monsters Under the Bed. This album is like letting your hair down…his ability to cast nostalgic thoughts over you is dumbfounding; he makes you want to stick it to the man – or the little kid that he conjures within you, might make you more appropriately want you to stick it to your primary or high school teacher for giving you a detention!
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself typing in “Eugene McGuinness – Monsters Under the Bed” into YouTube, the arcade feel to his video clips will have you watching intently. Eugene McGuinness is an instant classic, like the pinball machine or Pacman…Yes, it’s a bold statement, but he’s effortlessly and certainly one of a kind.
Transporting you back to the day when Super Nintendo’s were reigning, when smiles were easier to come by than the emos that roam the streets, Eugene McGuinness guides you from the beginning to the end of his Early Learnings... through his fantastic new EP. His sweet-lullaby-voice and soft melodies take you into a trance as you relive your own memories with a somewhat more ‘all knowing’ perspective. Like a kid with sly attitude Eugene’s new, The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness is an album that your ears will shine to, and your feet will run to…sweet and cheeky, it will bring a smile to your face. Once you listen to him, you’ll want him by your side when it’s time for bed so he can sing you to sleep, or to comfort you if your knee is grazed...Sweet but ballsy, soft but loud, I wouldn’t put anything out of his reach, this boy has got it all!
