Everything is Green

Essex Green

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2009)
• Original Release Date: October 24, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kindercore
• ASIN: B00002JXC7
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #186,686 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Everything is Green

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is it,, November 17, 1999

By A Customer

this album is seriously one of the best cds i've heard all year. they sound kinda like the zombies, if they were more influenced by british folk. it's a perfect album, and i don't hesitate in saying this.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Money, July 6, 2001

By	Shannon Wertzberger (Cape May, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I like to think that the Essex Green is kind of what it would be like if Hansel and Gretel grew up and started a pop-band, writing fairy-tale tunes based on feelings resulting from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The songs have a child-like innocence with an unsettlingly sinister undercurrent. It's a great album, particularly songs like Mrs. Bean and Everything is Green. If you like sixties-inspired bands like Ladybug Transistor, Belle and Sebastian, and The Gentle Waves then you will really enjoy this album.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Psychedelic Journey Into Another Green World, December 30, 2003

By	Gavin B. (St. Louis MO) - See all my reviews

"Everything Is Green" is about as ambitious a musical project as you will find in popular music. The Essex Green surpasses any of their Elephant 6 musical peers, on the basis of their sheer audacity and innocent quirkiness. This CD has been out for nearly five years and I hope it finds a larger audience. The "Big Green Tree" with it's plea to be anonymous "like a big green tree" is an ingenenous childlike ode to exsistential angst. The Essex Green has it all: a psychedelic Vox organ, child-like Cowsill vocals, weird shifts in tempo, fuzzbox guitars and hallucenogenic orange sushine lyrics. A few ambient Herb Alpert style mariachi horn arrangements are thrown in for good measure.

The comparison to the sixties group the Zombies, does not do justice to the Essex Green. The scope of the "Everything Is Green's" musical ambition far exceeds that of the Zombie's "Odessey and Oracle" classic. This is a mix of sunny psychedelic pop, jazz, rhumba, and celtic sounds that compares favorably to perhaps the Incredible String Band's "10,000 Spirits or Layers of the Onion", another eccentric sixties masterpiece from the sixties that split musical genres and had big ideas.

Eventually "Everything Is Green" will be seen as the visionary statement it is, and it will be appreciated as a forgotten pyschedelic classic, like Love's incredible "Forever Changes" and the previously mentioned Incredible String Band Album. The Essex Green released "The Long Goodbye" this year (2003) and it is a more polished Essex Green shifting from the psychedelic flourishes of "Everything Is Green" and experimenting more bucolic folk rock approach, but their vision remains intact. "Everything Is Green" still remains a favorite for it's magical charm and far flung ambition.