We Are the Essex Green Preservation Society

If you were drawn here by the recent Belle & Sebastian coverage, you should probably check out this Essex Green song pronto, if you haven’t already heard it elsewhere.

• The Essex Green, “This Isn’t Farm Life”

See what I mean? Sure, B&S hardly invented that sound – the electric keyboard surfing on top of the bouncing bassline, I mean – but right now I certainly associate it with them, if only because of the newness of their new album.

Not to take anything away from the excellence & spirit of the Essex Green. “Farm Life” is from Cannibal Sea, which comes out later this month and which I already suspect I’ll be listening to an awful lot this year. Loved their last record, too, especially this piece of harmony-luscious sixtiesish pop, which I can’t imagine the past three years or so without.

• The Essex Green, “The Late Great Cassiopia”
  

On an administrivia note, there’s an Atom XML feed of this site available here, if anyone wants one. I’ll try to put up a proper link in the sidebar column one of these days.