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he L.A. area-trio may still be and the Muffs on the other.”
Eve 6 recorded the album in Los
young, but the core of the band
Angeles at Sound City and Chomsky
have been writing and performing to
Ranch, New York at Electric Lady
gether for five years - developing
songs that capture angst and frustra and predominately in Seattle at Step
tion with a refreshing honesty and ping Stone, the home of Don Gilmore
poeticism as well as musical sophisti - an admired engineer turned pro
ducer who had previously worked
cation and raw power.
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Twenty-year-old singer and bass
player Max Collins, who also writes
the lyrics, and his classmate 19 year-
old-guitarist Jon Siebels have been col
laborating together since their fresh
man year in high school, drawn to
gether by a seriousness about playing
in a rock band and a love of punk
music. They were signed to The RCA
Records Label two years ago while still
in high school. Now, having teamed
up with 20 year-old drummer Tony
Fagenson and adopting the Eve 6
moniker, the band has recorded an in
fectious, self-titled debut album.
The first single, “ Inside O ut”
about “wanting people to under
stand you” (“ I would swallow my
pride...”), states the album’s theme
of the distance between outside ap
pearances and internal reality, while
the seductive catch-and-hold chorus
of “ Leech” underlines the tale of an
emotional parasite (“ Sucking on my
brain/You’re the teacher/l’m the stu-
dent/Turning things around/Your
story’s not congruent”).
One wouldn’t expect such catchy
choruses and sophisticated melodic
subtleties from a young band’s mu
sic. “That comes from having a wide
range of ta ste s,” exp lain s M ax.
“ We’ll listen to c la ssic singer-
songwriters like Elvis Costello and
Tom Petty on the one hand, and
noisy pop like the Pixies, Jawbreaker
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“ Inspire me,’ sings Max in
“Small Town Trap,’ the final song
on the album and a paean to mak
ing something of yourself. “Cause
if you don’t/I think I’ll dissipate
to dust/T he liar in m e/Says
something’s gonna happen soon/
Because it must.”
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