Eager Seas - Mine As Well (2018) Album

Eager Seas, fka Lakes, fka Eager Seas, fka Wataski Wa.... have a new album coming out! Or it is kinda already out!

Shipping now on vinyl & cassette, digital and CD (?) release forthcoming.



1. Always On Your Side
2. Jean
3. Fade Away
4. Jean
5. Hold On (Pt. 2)
6. Switchblade Perrier
7. Live Wire
8. Calling Out
9. So What
10. Supposed To Be
11. Life Can Be Seen

 

WHAT? How have I not heard about this?

Also, why have they gone back to the Eager Seas name? Always been so confusing.

 

Would really like to hear this whole thing but I don't need the vinyl and I'm not spending $15 on a cassette. Wish they'd start selling it digitally now instead of waiting another month.

 

Yeah, seems like an odd release schedule/rollout.

 

definitely a weird rollout strategy

 

it actually even stranger, if you look at Spotify, all the albums and EPs released as "Lakes' are now on the "Eager Seas" page, with new artwork replacing the band name

 

Weird rollout to accompany weird band name situations. Still, usually gorgeous music so I’ll check this out!

 

Beautiful tunes, did anyone else feel that Fade Away video was like Radiohead’s Daydreaming video without doors

 

Revisiting some very old Watashi Wa to get by til new music comes out

 

Whenever I was feeling particularly angsty as a teenager, I would play this album to balance things out. So upbeat and cheery. Digging these new songs, I just wish the dude could make his mind about his band name.

 

I don’t think the band name will change anymore, and he had a pretty good reason for changing it from Lakes:

 

Fade Away gives me some heavy Grizzly Bear vibes

 

I just discovered this thread. This has indeed been an odd roll out. They started releasing singles as early as January this year and I had no idea there was an album coming out of it. They’ve released seven songs in total.

As far as the band name, I know back when Watashi Wa broke up he had decided to name his new outing Eager Seas, but the label told him to stick with Watashi Wa even though he was solo now because it would be familiar to old fans. Then he left the label and wanted to change the band name again but his wife at the time didn’t like it. So then he changed it to Lakes. Then he and his wife got a divorce and yeah, there are a lot of bands with the name Lakes so...back to Eager Seas.

 

When the hell can I finally listen to this? So frustrating.

 

Same

 

Looks like it's out now digitally.

 

Thank god

 

This had to be one of the strangest and least effective rollouts of the streaming age. Releasing one song a month for a handful of months with a posted schedule for the release of every song on the album, and then going silent and not following the schedule, and then releasing it on cassette and vinyl only, and then almost two months later putting it on streaming services. Was there a strategy at any point or...?

Anyway, glad it’s finally here.

 

Totally agree. It's been very confusing. I'm not a fan of this 'release one song at a time until the whole album is out' move anyway (but can see why it's useful for streaming platforms). However, any benefits that they could have had here seem undermined by not following the release schedule anyway so not getting those songs onto playlists etc.

 

oh wow, ok glad it's here finally haha

 

So shifting from “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)” by The 1975 to “Life Can Be Seen” by Eager Seas was quite the emotional experience on the way to work this morning.

 

Damn this just randomly popped up in my spotify this morning. Was totally unaware before and now i'm pleasantly surprised.

 

It's a really nice record, great band

 

Loving this