Artist: Even
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Free Kicks
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
More so than You Am I, Australia's Even is a band shamelessly influenced and emulating the classic pop/rock of the '60s and '70s. Even's leader, isaac M. Singer and guitar player Ashley Naylor lives for playing and creating music and most of the meter will be ground acting with more than matchless roleplay at a time, leading his have chemical group and playing sideman for others.
At 17, Naylor fronted the Swarm just soon gave up that group's indie leanings (R.E.M., Smiths) for the classic pop that inspires him. Even was formed in March 1994 with fellow ex-Swarm Matthew Cotter, and it was completed by bass player Wally Kempton, moonlighting from his duties with Melbourne-based force pop exponents the Meanies. A yr by and by, Naylor was also reconciliation his duties betwixt 2 bands, leading Even and playing guitar in Fragment, a chemical group fronted by Naylor's songwriting friend Danny Vertessy. Fragment recorded two albums as Rail, in the Teenage Fanclub mould.
In the interim, Even had gained a record sign of its possess, starting in May 1995 with the CD EP, In Stereo, followed by the Ten to Forty-Six EP and the debut album Less Is More. By 1998 both Ashley Naylor and Wally Kempton had made Even their main focus for the transcription of the second record album, Come Again. In 1999 Naylor created some other sideline called the Grapes, co-starring distaff isaac M. Singer Sherry Rich, casting its musical net in the Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris res publica direction without losing sight of the pop that is the stylemark of Ashley Naylor's work.
