THE SPELLS is Bandcamp Daily's 'Album of the Day', LP released today, nearly 30 years after recording. Nick Zinner photos, CREEM's Zach Lipez essay

The Spells debut album released today, nearly 30 years after recording NYC "Moth"/post-punk trio, contemporaries of The Walkmen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gunga Din Hear/share The Night Has Eyes album (DSPs) Read Bandcamp Daily's 'Album of The Day' pick w/ stream HERE Read CREEM Mag editor Zachary Lipez's essay HERE

Photo credit: Nick Zinner “The Night Has Eyes sounds as young and wild as we might on the good (or bad) days, and well (well, well, well) worth the wait.” -- Zach Lipez, CREEM Magazine "You can hear their ragged punk roots, haunted melodies and flashes of PJ Harvey's sonic influence. Filled with jagged and beautiful songs... emerges like the glorious ghost of the underground." -- Psychedelic Baby “The Night Has Eyes captures a band that has crafted a sound that is both unique and exciting.” — Spill Magazine “A record that feels like it was summoned by black-magic ceremony, teeming with the primal lust and supernatural violence that animates rock ‘n’ roll at its most deviant and dangerous.” — Bandcamp Daily Long lost NYC trio The Spells release their long-overdue 1997 debut album The Night Has Eyes today in a deluxe LP & 16-page booklet package via Garganta Press. The album was shelved shortly after recording when the band dissolved, but its legend grew over time -- Zachary Lipez of CREEM Magazine offers this excellent essay about the band and fertile scene of the era (which he also profiled in a feature on the 90s mod/goth sub-subculture he terms "Moths.") Hear/share the album The Night Has Eyes via Bandcamp HERE. Bandcamp Daily named it their Album of the Day alongside this excellent review by Stuart Berman HERE. All 3 members of The Spells detail their story in an in-depth interview with via Echoes & Dust HERE. The Spells were Nicole Barrick (guitar, vocals), Marisa Pool (bass, vocals), Leni Zumas (drums). Rising from the ashes of a previous incarnation called The Read Scare, The Spells formed in Austin, TX in 1995, and broke up in New York City in 1998. A dark gem from the NYC 90's underground, the unreleased album The Night Has Eyes, produced in November 1997 by Greg Talenfeld at Waterworks, NYC, will debut on vinyl in 2025 via Garganta Press. For the first time on vinyl, a lost gem of 90's garage punk for the darkly inclined. Recorded in 1997 by Greg Talenfeld (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pavement, The Walkmen) and never released, The Night Has Eyes is a hidden treasure unearthed from the fertile end-of-the-century NYC underground scene. The record comes with a 16-page booklet with never-seen-before pictures of the band shot in 1997 and 1998 by Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iggy Pop) and Lilian Lee. Recorded and mixed by Greg Talenfeld at Waterworks, NYC in November 1997  Produced by Greg Talenfeld and The Spells Mastered for LP by Honza Kapak at Hellsound Studio, Czech Republic, January 2025  The Night Has Eyes is available on Halloween 2025 on LP/booklet and digital via Garganta Press. Orders are available HERE.