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• Artist: Evergreen
• Album: Evergreen
• Label: Temporary Residence
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-03-02

Many indie fans may even have a hard time placing Evergreen. It's one of those bands that people have heard of and yet no one really knows who or what they are all about. You may remember a band called Slint. Pretty much any band that has been called post-rock was influenced by them. The drummer, Britt Walford actually went on to form a band called the Breeders with ex-Pixies Kim Deal but wasn't satisfied with the output. His next project was this one, called Evergreen. It was more along the lines of the noisy post-rock sounds of his former band Slint. Temporary Residence has tracked this album down and offered us a re-release of it. It's funny to think that almost 10 years after the fact, an album such as this could sound so relevant. Change the term from post-rock to garage revival and you might have a contender at a top 40 song. Well, not quite. Evergreen's album is a little more sporadic and somewhat unpredictable. But this is good. When you don't know what's next, you tend to hang on a little more, rather than some of today's artists that do three similar songs and rework them and change the lyrics and call it an album. Heavy low-end is the key to Evergreen's sound, as is Sean McLoughlin's crazed vocals. Even if you had the original Evergreen album you might want to seek out this re-release. There are two very cool tracks on this edition that you may have a hard time finding elsewhere. "Pants Off" is their shot at a blues ditty and it's hot.

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