The Eggmen Whoooooo! - Fuzzy Eggs, Please (2024) Hi-Res

There are a few things you should know about The Eggmen Whoooooo!. They are a kind of supergroup from Wales, with members from outfits like El Goodo, Los Blancos and Trecco Beis. You pronounce the ‘Whoooooo” part of the band name the way over-enthusiastic presenters do in their on stage announcements. And the sound of Benedict Frye (vocals, guitar), Thom Lett (guitar, backing vocals), Gwyn Ŵy (guitar), Shelldon Advocaat (bass, synthesizer, backing vocals), Sue Flay (keyboards, percussion) and Gregg Boyle (drums) is a mix of genre-crossing 60s-inspired garage psych, noisy indie rock, spaghetti western music and infectious surf pop. That’s promising, right?

The ten lo-fi songs on their debut full-length album, wittily titled Fuzzy Eggs, Please, radiate an energy and spontaneity that suggests they were recorded live. Occasionally the pace is slowed down to catch our breath (most notable in the 7 melancholic minutes of The Old Man Knows Best), but most of the time we can dance (with It’s Just Your Mind, Rwy’n Dy Garu Di and So Long (Bye Bye Baby) standing out). Above all, this record is as catchy as can be, full of hooks and of course with a lot of ‘Whoooooo!’s and similar primal screams—fun to the max.

Members of EL Goodo, Los Blancos and Trecco Beis gathered together and made themselves a classic psych album and this is no exaggeration. It did take a while from this end to work out the egg-related puns in monikers Benedict E Frye, Gregg Boyle, Sheldon Advocaat, Thom Lett, Gwyn Ŵy and Sue Flay, due to being too busy vibing off this pick-me-up record.

Golden-era of kinked, acid-hued, analogue, harmonic song writing sits at the heart of The Eggmen Whoooooo!’s first, mind-bending, full-length album. Two-decades of meandering musicality fans the embers of cult Welsh legends, El Goodo, glowing beneath Benedict Frye’s latest bakeries of sound.

Whisking effervescence and colour into the flat glass of soda of mundane middle age, the former El Goodo pace-setter has gathered a band of five other, talented souls and asks the jittery cut of sparking psych to lead the charge as the band’s debut album, Fuzzy Eggs, Please.

Almost a full two decades since El Goodo rose to an elevated position amongst discerning music-lovers as consorts to, support act beneath and studio collaborators with Super Furry Animals, and a full four years since the final act of the departed band (their last, acclaimed studio album, Zombie) a tapestry of distinctly and brilliantly odd songs scrambles from the heart of the Welsh hills. Transplanted into the chest cavity of a new, stage-ready six-headed creature, what awakes is a new beast of valve amp and feedback-fuelled splendour.

All ten songs, recorded in mountainous seclusion in Carmarthenshire with producer, Thighpaulsandra (Spiritualized, Tim Burgess), have clustered in strange harmony on The Eggmen Whoooooo!’s very first, perfectly imperfect album.

Formed in a lightning strike of inspiration by prolific, remote South Wales-based keeper of various musical flames, Benedict E Frye, The Eggmen Whoooooo! finds members of kindred, Welsh musical spirits, El Goodo, Los Blancos and Trecco Beis, joining hands and overloading studio plug sockets in a display of unchallenged creative hubris. With nobody to please but themselves, the six-piece’s indulgence in sounds straddles sun-licked Californian harmonies and the torn-sneakered snottiness of New York punk making for thrilling sonic schizophrenia with only their own record collections occasionally poached.