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Everything

by Allen Epley

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Badmaa
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Badmaa Jesus h fuck this album rips! Favorite track: Spider Rico.
nedomedo
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nedomedo I've been looking forward to listening to the complete album!
Nerve Salad
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Nerve Salad I knew I was going to like this album, but I had no idea it was going to be THIS good. Ethereal, lush pop, with a sense of reckless abandon in the structures. Everything about it screams distant, faded memories, Autumnal sunsets, watery movements hindered only by the closing of the day, and wishes left unwished.
Hold onto this one tightly, friends. You'll need it for the days ahead...
jen
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jen Anything this man touches turns to gold. This record may be inspired by AM Gold, but it's thoroughly modern and beautiful and fuzzy and soul-jarring and heartbreaking, a natural extension of his Life and Times and Shiner music. And that optimistic revisit of TLAT's The Lucid Dream! Damn.
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Evangeline 03:08
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Spider Rico 04:22
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The EMT 04:01
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Everything 04:04
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I'm the One 05:00
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Spartan Records proudly presents "Everything," the debut solo LP from Allen Epley (Shiner, The Life and Times). As a child, Epley spent hours imprinting his parents' record collection on his psyche. Giant headphones secure, he would pore over the cover art and liner notes and enter the world wrought by the giants of AM Gold — Bread, James Taylor, Carol King, Three Dog Night, Blood Sweat and Tears, 5th Dimension. Yet the music he would make in the 90’s and 00’s with his highly influential bands doesn’t reveal these easy-listening origins. Shiner and The Life and Times reflected more opaque images of bands like Swervedriver, Slint, early Smashing Pumpkins and Failure. The smooth grooves and discernable lyrics about love -- found and lost -- of the 70’s songsters of his adolescence hadn’t come back into view for him until 2018. While working on a batch of compositions for film/tv, Epley realized these ghosts had never left him but instead had embedded themselves in his subconscious.  The result of this retrospective journey is "Everything," a record that begs and rewards repeated listenings. It’s a rich production that echoes the AM Gold of his childhood but reaches into artistic territories that were generally reserved for Elliott Smith and "Sea Change" era Beck. 

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released January 6, 2023

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Allen Epley Chicago, Illinois

Debut album "Everything" out now on Spartan Records.

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