Jeff's Best of 2025 - #3: The New Eves - The New Eve is Rising
It's folk-punk, first and foremost. Not the sort of speed guitar, grungy DIY type, but punk in attitude. They're the girls your farmer mother warned you about. They're the ones where you wonder where they emerged from, and what made them this way. It's conceptual, yet it's not--I'd perhaps go as far as to say that this might be among the more genuine listens this year. I can't really frame it better than that. Either you get what they're doing, or you don't, and if you do you're amazed and if you aren't, well... I'm not saying they're going to hex you but they might hex you.
If The Wicker Man was an album made especially for me, it might be this. If Midsommar-core was a thing, The New Eves might be at the top of the list. If you think Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge" needed more cellos and blood and fewer Leprechauns, this is for you, too. Don't take the semi-levity here as any sign of disrespect, because when I say I loved this album, I mean it. There was nothing else like it this year, not even close. Nothing like it in ages, in fact, and it's one that I kept going back to and kept finding new things I loved about it.
Yeah, the new eve is rising, for sure. I, for one, welcome our new folk punk overlords.
Songs of note: "Cow Song," "Highway Man," "The New Eve," "Rivers Run Red," "Volcano"
