Everything's Gone Green
"Hiding in the Light" CDEP
self-released
Genre: indie pop, lo-fi, indie
rock
July 24 2008 |
Everything's Gone Green (or EGG)
is a lo-fi indie pop band out of Texas who record melodic little
nuggets tinged with a distinct shoegaze influence. This comes out in
the feedback sways of the Kinks-meets-Yo La Tengo "The
Longest Springtime" and the echoing vocals and synths of "When We See
Beyond the Tracks." Relatively surprising from such an obscure
release, EGG do a lot of things right. They operate well under
their obvious monetary limitations, managaing decent atmopsherics and
and compositional complexity without sounding garbled and trashy.
While opener "Sentimental Radio" is a tad bland
melodically despite its ambitious horn section, beautifully spacey
"Cosmic Life" (ditto to Yo La Tengo reference) and momentous
"Hiding in the Light" (think My Bloody Valentine meets Joy
Division and some Prozac) offer us a glimpse of EGG at
their best. And that isn't to neglect more conventional indie popper
"Melodies Have a Shelf Life" and Modest Mouse influenced "The
Stone the Builder Refused." All in all, Hiding in the Light is
a terrific lo-fi EP from a band I'd really like to hear more from.
EGG's myspace
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Fun Fact: The band's
name comes from the title of the first New Order single to contain
computer-generated sounds. (Wikipedia)
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 7 tracks, distributed by
CD Baby,
released 2008] |