Seventeen Evergreen
'Life Embarrasses Me on Planet Earth'
(Lucky012)
Released:02.04.07
Rock
need not bore. There are possibilities.
So when the songs of Seventeen
Evergreen come knocking at your door,
open it up wide, and open up your mind
– because these gentlemen bring you the
good news.
‘Life Embarrasses Me On Plant Earth’ is an album of pastoral beauty, influenced by quite
literally everything around the two members
of Seventeen Evergreen, Caleb
Pate and Nephi
Evans. Borne out of a chance meeting on a rafting
trip in Sacremento, life long friends Caleb and Nephi have certainly
set out to produce something that is much
more than the sum of its parts and one
would have to concede that they’ve more
than admirably succeeded.
Seventeen Evergreen are undoubtedly a refreshing and unique proposition. After all, how many
bands would hold trees, fire, sea, knowledge,
experience and the vast unknown space
on earth and beyond, as equal inspirations
to beautiful girls? The band explore themes that it’s safe to say
are truly their own, and are making music
in their own individual space. Conversations
pondering the likelihood of intelligent
non-human life forms in the vasts of the
universe, sci-fi love, and urban lament
of the mundane working world soon turned
in to lyrics, and, ultimately, the main
inspiration behind their debut album, ‘Life
Embarrasses Me On Planet Earth.’
An
organic electronic/rock hybrid, sonically
kite flying amongst Boards of Canada,
My Bloody Valentine, Pink Floyd &
Pavement, the album is a genuine whole,
a rich & considered tapestry that
weaves a kaleidoscope of possibilities
in to a psychedelic, breathy, almost mystical
soup.
In
all, where others cough and splutter, Seventeen
Evergreen float, slowly and calmly
along life’s path, savouring the beauty
of every rose along the way. With the
release of their debut on Lucky Number, Seventeen Evergreen, allow
you too to peer over a cosmic garden fence
and see life as they perceive it.
Spend
a minute with any Seventeen
Evergreen track and you’ll be greeted
with the sirens of the forest, the stars
in the sky and the vibrations of the ground
dancing together in the ether to form
an intricate yet consummate aural feast
for your stereo.
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