With all the fes­ti­val news going on, our “Track of the Week” thing has some­how fall­en by the way­side. But we’re bring­ing it back for this soar­ing new num­ber from a Man­ches­ter based four-piece band called Brick­house, who have just released their first track called Angel Eyes.

It’s a grungy num­ber, laden with emo­tion and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty and a per­sis­tent riff pulling it togeth­er. By the sec­ond verse things become more con­tem­pla­tive, the bass builds and the ten­sion mounts. There are shades of Lou Reed and some­thing of Mazzy Star in its melan­cholic, hazy feel.

Brick­house con­sists of Owain Sharp (vocals/rhythm gui­tar), Max Duffy (lead guitar/backing vocals), Alex Price (bass) and Fred­die Haigh (drums). Angel Eyes was writ­ten by Owain Sharp on an acoustic gui­tar in his child­hood bed­room over a soli­tary Christmas. 

The sub­ject mat­ter is all about the after­math of an end­ed rela­tion­ship and the dif­fi­cul­ty in sep­a­rat­ing the past from the present. Retreat­ing to a safe, child­hood space for rak­ing over it, to try and find answers to where it all went wrong and spark the heal­ing process. 

Says Owain: “Angel Eyes is, at its core, about being haunt­ed. Not in the super­nat­ur­al sense, but rather the per­sis­tent melan­choly. The lin­ger­ing of mem­o­ries after los­ing a lover and being unsure how to help your­self let go and be released from the curse of see­ing some­one in every­body else you meet.

The song is accom­pa­nied by an atmos­pher­ic video of the band, with a retro vibe and some guess-the-loca­tion moments for Man­cu­ni­ans and Calder Val­ley folk alike.

Fol­low Brick­house on Insta­gram