until now, i’d say that eddie jowels has been funnybone records-adjacent. after releasing their debut album self-titled album, eddie jowels has shown up on things like the funnybone records spotify sampler. and today, the connection is formalized, with eddie joining the funnybone roster proper and celebrating that with an awesome new music video for a song called “lemons”.
you can (and should) check out the video for “lemons” below. the video was filmed in the wherehouse, that wonderfully eclectic venue that previously played host to queen moo’s video for “gooey functions”. the video is part live performance, part conceptual art piece, with eddie rocking out in front of an audience of stone-faced masked listeners. check it out because the song is great and the video is cool as hell (to be honest, i’d watch anything that rj larussa is attached to). one of my favorite pieces of the video — besides the song, which is already one of my favorites by eddie — is the gradual incorporation of camera-people being filmed. it’s a little detail that allows the video to call attention to itself as, in fact, a video. like the music, it’s highly stylized but wonderfully tactile.
“but ctverses”, you say, “isn’t eddie jowels a new york artist? that’s what it says on their bandcamp page.”
that’s a great point, hypothetical heckler, while eddie does spend a lot of time in the empire state, writing music at The Root, but i’ll give you three reasons why i am telling you about eddie jowels, and they increase in importance as they go. (1) the video for “lemons” was recorded as the wherehouse, which is in hartford, (2) eddie jowels is on funnybone records, a thoroughly connecticut record lable, and (3) the song and video is just really great, ok?
the catch, if there is one, is that the song is only available on youtube. that means you can’t find it on bandcamp, spotify, napster, apple music, or zune marketplace yet. but if you haven’t heard eddie’s music yet, you can check our more eddie jowels on bandcamp!
