Track Listing

1. Primrose
2. Playground
3. Mrs Bean
4. Grass
5. Saturday
6. Big Green Tree
7. Tinker (She Heard The News)
8. Everything Is Green
9. Sixties
10. Sun
11. Carballo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #480554 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-27
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
By the late '90s, after the amazing track records of the Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, the Minders, Beulah, and a seemingly endless variety of others, it became almost easy to say "Ho hum, another terrific Elephant 6 album". The Essex Green, a Brooklyn quintet that features Jeffrey Baron of the Ladybug Transistor alongsidesoft-pop scenester Sasha Bell, is a late addition to the Elephant 6 collective.
While the group's alternating vocalsand devotion to the quieter side of '60s pop recall the Apples In Stereo more than any other E6 band, songs like the pastoral title track, the angular "Primrose", and the multi-part "Tinker" owe more to both Baron's main band and the art-pop experimentalism of Richard Davies. However, the winsome "Big Green Tree" and the tongue-in-cheek sitars and flutes of"Sixties" are pure Elephant 6 playfulness. EVERYTHING IS GREEN is a pure pop delight.

Customer Reviews

English Mix
I know nothing about this band I stumbled on them while looking through the (recommended) Kindercore Records catalogue, but I quite like them. Lots of English pop influences there, in the same way XTC took the Beatles & reinvented their psychedelia, these have too, there's a bit of Anglo - Celtic folk which reminded me of Jethro Tull of all things and lots of swirling organ. It's timeless, but if you're looking for something up to the minute, this is not for you.
At least they have avoided the whining vocals that seem compulsory with modern sesnsitive bands (Mercury Rev, Grandaddy, Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse...)
And everything is green!!! There's a song about golf for heaven's sake!
Not a classic, but a quality product.