The Essex Green - "Don't Know Why (You Stay)".Cars drink gasoline. Old men drink gin. Turntables drink electricity. Young men drink beer. Trees drink sunlight, drink rain. We drink songs. We drink like fishes. (Fishes drink saltwater.) On a hot day I'll drink a hundred songs. On a lonely day I'll drink myself sick. And the thing with songs, the thing that makes them better than booze, hooch, mo...
Cannibal Sea was one of my favorite albums last year; every song winds tight and releases in a joyful, slinky whir. When The Essex Green comes to town, buy new shoes, order a drink you can't pronounce. Go early and make friends with strangers, stay late and drive to the beach at dawn.When the Essex Green comes to town, it's spring, it's summer. It's daylight, all night long.
Music to roll in the grass to (or maybe roll grass to?). Sunny psychedelia.You can't go wrong with any Essex Green album. This track is from their first, Everything Is Green (1999) but both The Long Goodbye (2003) and The Cannibal Sea (2006) are grand too. Here's some footage from last summer in Spain.
Compiled By: Carmen Aww, there's something about morning cartoons that bring a smile to this girl's face. Right now, I'm humming the little theme song in my head, "Captain Planet, he's OUR HERO GUNNA TAKE POLLUTION DOWN TO ZERO!!" And also, don't you just love that the American in the gang of kids is the irrogant self-absorbed one? Life imitating art! Ha, but really, the show bring back memori...
I heard these guys on XM radio and they grew on me pretty quick. I even signed up for the free trial of Emusic so I could download their cd Cannibal Sea. Alot of people say their music pays tribute to the psychedelic era of the 60's, but to me they have a unique sound that is very addictive. I found them to be a nice change of pace from the usuall ho-hum that you hear on the radio.Two thumbs...