Everest - Ownerless

Everest - L.A. indie rockers' eagerly anticipated third album and successor to 2010's On Approach is described by guitarist Joel Graves as a "hopeful love letter slipped under the door"...the band, who have toured with My Morning Jacket, Wilco and Neil Young, enlisted Richard Swift (Damien Jurado, Mynabirds) to produce most of the new tracks, Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck) for the remaining // Release: Ownerless (June 26, ATO) // Sounds like: Intelligent, remarkably disparate and groove-driven rock has enough jagged edges to get the fists pumping and enough anthemic melodies and inventive art/rock asides -- and nicely constructed pop hooks -- to connect to the head and heart...this is an album with XL-sized sound and scope -- fortunately there's plenty of big creative ideas and impressive musicianship to match...

Quote: “People would say that they didn’t really know how to describe us. They couldn’t figure out exactly how to categorize our music or figure out what Pandora station we should belong to — as if that was a somehow a bad thing. I think we finally embraced the fact that we shouldn’t sound like anybody. We should sound like us. Not worrying about stuff like that is actually incredibly liberating.“ - Everest guitarist Jason Soda // What we like: "Give A Little", soaked with shimmering guitars and deep organ shadings -- and reminiscent of something off of a modernized Hotel California -- is quickly becoming one of our favorite songs of the year..."Raking Me Over the Coals", a co-write with frontman Russ Pollard and Jayhawk Gary Louris, is a more mellow jangle with some SoCal country harmonies...album opener "Rapture" lets the title say it all -- a rollicking rocker that (oddly enough) sounds like Del Amitri with the amps turned up to eleven...

Everest - "Give A Little" (from the album Ownerless)

Everest - "Raking Me Over the Coals" (from the album Ownerless) Free Download