I had a conversation with someone recently about the Irish band Talos and found myself going back to their latest album, Far Out Dust, for a listen. It has been a week since that conversation, and the album is still on repeat. Eoin French, known by the moniker Talos, has an uncanny ability to create music that heightens my senses. The music flows through me, painting beautiful imagery in my mind by intermingling sounds that put my neurons into overdrive. I honestly do not know if it is his cadence, tone, lyrics, music, or a magical perfect mixture of all those things, but I am drawn to his art like a sailor to a siren.
I heard about Talos in early 2018 from a tweet by a member of another band I love, which you can read about here. I had the first Talos album, Wild Alee, on repeat for several months after and still go back to it often. When I need inspiration I listen to Talos. The end, dot com. Their music opens my mind and surfaces deep thoughts and emotions for me to think more freely. Far Out Dust will take you on the best emotional roller coaster you have ever experienced. Fair warning though, it may leave you crying in a corner. I am most connected to “The Flood,” “Let Go,” and “Far Out Dust.”
Track 6 on the record is a song called “The Flood.” The line I always come back to is “The scent of you dies, a threat of a dream absorbs it.” As always with Talos, I am blown away by how perfectly they bring feeling into words. I find it terribly difficult to describe feelings and emotions, and it seems to come so natural to them. “Let Go” is another stand out tune for me and is my favorite track. There is so much passion in this song, and it gives me similar feelings to “Tethered Bones” from their first album. The last and title track, “Far Out Dust,” was the first song written for the record and set the tone for the whole album. Brendan Canty directed the music video for the song, and it is mesmerizing from the start as the actor begins signing “death.” By the end, I honestly felt like my heart was ripped from my chest.
I have said it before and will say it again, go listen to this band. You will not regret it. I cannot wait for the world of music to get back to normal so I can see Talos live.