Holy Crap, A Girl Called Eddy has a new album

Rewind to the fall of 2004. The year before, I got my first computer, and I’d spent much of that time ripping the collection of CDs that I’d acquired over the years to its music library. When I’d exhausted that, I started roaming around the internet looking for free songs. I missed out on Napster / Limewire — I was too paranoid about getting a virus or something — but I did scour the iTunes and Amazon stores for freebies. I came across some really great bands that way, including one song by a group called A Girl Called Eddy.

The band is the moniker of singer Erin Moran, and I love her voice — it’s low, seductive, bristling with energy and movement. The song was The Long Goodbye (there was a B-side called Under the Warm Sun as well), and man, it was a song that got me through the angsty years of college crushes and girlfriends. I ended up picking up the rest of the album, and in the 16 years since I first came across it, it’s been one of those albums that I’ll throw up on the speakers and listen to.

Last night, while poking around the iTunes store, her named popped up in the ‘upcoming albums by artists you already own section’, which shocked me. Over the years, I’ve wondered if A Girl Called Eddy was one of those glorious one hit wonders — something that strikes and never gets followed up on. It seems as though that’s not the case, as her next album, Been Around, is set to be released on January 17th. I’m kicking myself, because news about the album seems to have broken last fall.

There’s always a worry that followup albums — especially the ones that come years and years after — can never live up to a brilliant first effort, but if this new album is anything to go on, it’s going to be good. Been Around is a wonderful track, one that I’ve listened to a dozen times already while I’ve puttered around this morning. Hopefully, the rest of the album will be just as good.