#eisley

i noticed this account poppin up a lot while browsing the dtg tag, and i would like to give you a music reccomendation.

before i got into dtg, i was obsessed with a band called Eisley. they are like. very similar. listen, you'll see. like my reaction when i heard dtg for the first time was "oh my god, another band that's two girls singing beautiful pop-rock/folk/idk what to call it man harmonies!!! my dream hath come true!!!" anyway, if you like daisy the great, you'll probably love them.

omg hi!!

I came across these old photos the other day.

Baby me with so much life ahead of him to waste.

top: with Carlos D of Interpol - November 11, 2004

bottom: with Chauntelle from Eisley - November 8, 2005 (which happened to be both of our birthdays)

though i was only introduced to this band 3 years ago, i have a deep love for their music and hope to share that with you all!!

i'll be posting my thoughts on the songs, their voices, and pretty much anything else to do with eisley, and please feel free to tell me your own!

under the cut is demos and unreleased tracks i've received, with credit to who sent them in!! if you have any others, feel free to send them my way!!

thanks for stopping by, now on with the show!

hello did you listen to combinations?

“Separated by the Wall” Playlist for Obiyuki Trope Madness 2025 by @snowwhite-andtheknight

I literally just searched for “wall” lyrics in each of my favorite bands and found some great ones! I love the figurative wall in “Asymptotic” and the cute lyric video that inspired the playlist title. The Eisley song also works as a perfect intro and I’m glad the other songs have lyrics that work well too (even if it gets a little bitter by the end...).

Always Parallel

A Sight to Behold- Eisley I Will Steal You Back- Jimmy Eat World Asymptotic- Louie Zong Future Me Hates Me- The Beths Better Open the Door- Motion City Soundtrack Over & Over- Mae Ruins- Matt Pond PA Home is a Fire- Death Cab for Cutie All We Have- Anberlin

Summary lyrics are cited after the cut:

Eisley – Room Noises / Combinations

Because I’ve been a music fan for so long, I tend to forget how I come across most bands and artists. A lot of them are through word of mouth, or I find them on a website or blog, but there are those bands I won’t forget how I found, even after almost two decades of being a music fan. One of those bands is Eisley; I got into them around the summer of 2007, and I was getting into a lot of music at the time, but it was a case of watching a late night TV show and sticking around to watch a musical guest. I was watching Late Night With Conan O’Brien, and the band performed the song “Invasion,” which was from their upcoming sophomore album, entitled Combinations. I loved what I heard, because it was this weird, off-putting, and strange-sounding indie-pop song that was still very catchy and pleasant. I was surprised that the rest of the album wasn’t like that, but more so a mixture of indie-rock, alt-rock, alt-country, and folk-rock. Their debut album, 2005’s Room Noises, was also a bit of an interesting album, having an indie-pop / indie-rock sound. I picked that up right afterwards, which is something I did back then a lot; if there was a band or artist I found that I really liked, I would listen to their new album, and then I’d pick up anything else they had the following week if I really liked what I heard. Back then, I was able to find a lot of stuff in stores, as CDs were pretty common, but I can just stream something nowadays. Being that it was May the Fourth recently, and this band is named after a Star Wars reference (the city of Mos Eisley on the planet Tatooine), now’s the best time to do it. Eisley is one of my favorite bands, and they’re also an extremely underrated one, because I don’t hear anybody talk about this band. Maybe it’s partially because their last album came out in 2017, and from what I remember, it wasn’t anything too great. I don’t remember the band putting anything outright awful, but even back then, I wasn’t as enthralled with their last couple of albums as I was with their first few. Their first two albums are the ones that I would easily recommend (their third album is pretty good, too, in all fairness), as their last couple of albums would move more into dream-pop and more straightforward indie-pop / rock. Their first two albums, however, were more of a baroque-pop and indie-pop sound that were also incredibly fun and whimsical. They had a Beatles-esque quality to them, mainly for its weird, strange, and surreal lyricism that doesn’t make sense. Their debut, 2005’s Room Noises, really has that, and the follow-up, 2007’s Combinations, kind of does, too, but it’s a bit more played down. 2011’s The Valley would be a more straightforward indie-rock album, and I remember it was pretty good, but it was a little less interesting or unique than their last couple of albums. Even between Room Noises and Combinations, there was a bit of a shift in sound, but it wasn’t a bad one. They still had that whimsical indie-pop sound, but they added more elements to it. There are songs with folk, alt-country, and a bit of new wave and synth-pop, so there was some variety there. Their debut has some variety, too, but it mainly floats around between an indie-pop and rock album. What makes it work extremely well, however, are its hooks, and this band is rife with catchy melodies and hooks.