We have to confess that we were hitherto unaware of Baby Eagle, the ‘other’ band of Steve Lambke and given our lack of knowledge of The Constantines catalogue, we didn’t have hugely high expectations.

All the better then to discover that Day Of Our Departing the advance track from new album Dog Weather (which was released yesterday on You’ve Changed Records) is a beauty with echoes of Neil Young, Gram Parsons and even Pavement.

The label’s website says “The story of this record isn’t all that different from a thousand others out here. Songwriter forms a scrappy band of talented friends when their schedules allow. At the tail end of winter the aforementioned band heads to a big rural house overlooking a vast body of water. Wood is burned, dogs shit, wind howls. Meals are cooked and people sing, play instruments, and a record gets cut. Serendipity trumps bad luck.

What is different on this record, is the way its stories are told, what they describe, and the undeniable joy with which they’re played. It is a record full of natural imagery, domestic narratives and ragged characters trying to patch a wound of meaning on the world. This is a rock band shaking its wet fur dry, pulling its boot from the mud and driving another mile.”

Dog Weather is the third record from Baby Eagle, and you can download it like we did with credits at eMusic here. Well worth it we promise.

You can visit their MySpace here.

Download Baby Eagle – Day Of Our Departing mp3 (from Dog Weather)