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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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