Evan Andree - Invisible Sap Review

An evolution from synth-lead pop to guitar-driven indie comes off as a natural success and goes to show just how far Evan Andree could go.

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rating:3.5

This review is long overdue. It should€™ve signed off the end of last year but instead it starts this year off with an uplifting ring. I would like to thank Evan Andree for his patience during my shambolic arranging of myself these past weeks, and congratulate him on a great EP. So I€™m sat here, back home for Christmas and New Year, one hand fervently shaking a mug of coffee from my bedside table to my mouth, and the other teaming up with the rest of its arm as it acts as a shelf to an Anthology of American Literature that I€™m scrambling through to get up to date on the required reading I haven€™t even looked at until now. In the background I have Evan Andree€™s Invisible Sap EP on loop on my iTunes. It€™s helping. Setting aside Emily Dickinson, with her flowery fascination and morbid fixation, for a moment €“ Evan Andree is an American artists hailing from Atlanta, Georgia; a city once labelled €˜too busy to hate€™ on account of the progressive ideals of its citizens and politicians during the Civil Rights Movement. Though if Evan Andree€™s music is anything to go by €“ whilst they may have been too busy to hate they€™re certainly not too busy to love. The first track of this three track EP is the fittingly titled American Dream, given my current position €“ sandwiched between that anthology of American literature and rereading The Great Gatsby. For those already be familiar with Evan Andree for his track Panic, or just the Nike UK €˜Find Your Greatness€™ ad campaign that featured it, might be a little surprised. Pleasantly though I€™d hope. Whereas that track was an electronica infused slice of synth pop, akin to that of Passion Pit, American Dream starts with indie guitar melodies and a Springsteenian chug before Andree€™s unique vocals see us through to a big chord driven chorus that sits somewhere between Ryan Adams and Motion City Soundtrack. The remaining two tracks follow suit along this more guitar driven indie alleyway; Your Song€™s opening fretwork sounds like mid-period Oasis before it melds itself to a shuffling, acoustic-indie love song and Mr Teleportation brings to mind a more subdued, though no less anthemic, Gaslight Anthem with an emo-pop inflection. Though a stark developmental-contrast from Andree€™s earlier dabbling in a framework, and soundscape, more in line with that of Beach House and, the aforementioned, Passion Pit it doesn€™t seem in anyway contrived. In fact, it seems to ring out of Andree just as naturally, if not more so. http://youtu.be/WLUJIiROMbM facebook twitter tumblr
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