THE ESSEX GREEN
Cannibal Sea
Merge
· It’s 1967. Do you know where your kids are? Essex Green go back in time to get new material.
Despite the over-riding sense of travel and movement on The Essex Green’s Cannibal Sea, directionally it’s all headed straight backwards to the glory days of 1960s pop.
Recorded over the course of a year at several locales, ranging from New York to Ohio and back again, The Essex Green have assembled a throwback of the best possible kind. Spruced up with strings, Byrds-ian guitar lines, and deluxe harmonies that stick to the brain, Cannibal Sea is a striking piece of proof that the heyday for guitar pop is already long gone. More importantly, The Essex Green get the notion that the finest pop music is of the sad and lonely variety (longing makes for catchy music), and the finest moments herein act as near-perfect gems of feeling lost in a fast-paced modern world.
Brian Wilson may have written the sap-pop rulebooks with the likes of "I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times," but with swoon-worthy moments like the catchy "Don’t Know Why (You Stay)" and resigned shuffle of "Rue de Lis," The Essex Green aim at grabbing a footnote or two for themselves.
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