Track Listing

1. First Song
2. Wicked Gil
3. Our Swords
4. Funeral
5. Part One
6. Great Salt Lake
7. Weed Party
8. I Go to the Barn Because I Like The
9. Monsters
10. St. Augustine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6524 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
This Seattle-based band was formed from the ashes of the incredibly talented Carissa's Wierd [sic], whose mopey and self-deprecating songs were like some magical and baroque combination of the Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, and Leonard Cohen. Longtime friends of Iron and Wine, few fans in their native Pacific Northwest could understand why Carissa's weren't huge. But they weren't, and after three albums and few folks really caring, they naturally broke up. Band of Horses, led by ultra-charming CW bassist Ben Bridwell, is a remarkably different, though just as radically excellent, brand of indie-pop sulk. These songs are anthems to ambivalence, and Bridwell's lovely high-pitched trill will please any fan of Built to Spill, the Shins, and Modest Mouse. It takes a few listens to sink in, but Everything is transcendent, shimmering, layered, and smartass emo-pop fully ready for stadium saturation. --James Conde

Customer Reviews

everything all the time - pitchforkmedia
Wedding the elemental, earthworn rock of My Morning Jacket or Neil Young to the atmospheric pop of West Coast indie mainstays the Shins and Red House Painters, the debut album from recent Sub Pop signees Band of Horses will be immediately, invitingly familiar to anyone who reads this site regularly. But if their roots are recognizable, the music is anything but commonplace: Everything All the Time delicately balances contrasting elements, its lyrics and instrumentation both reaching rare levels of complexity, depth, and meaning. Rueful without receding into self-absorption, and sweeping without tumbling into bombast, Band of Horses prove themselves capable of evoking a stunningly dynamic range of emotions-- yet, every element and track here contributes to the album's wistful, twilit undercurrent. Beautiful and boundless, Everything All the Time is among the year's most striking debuts to date.

Full of fully fullness
If horses translated to " people who make some amazing music that deserves many listens and in june a live show for my friends and I" then the Band of Horses is or are the best band I've heard so far in 2006. Check them out...lookin forward to seein them live.

Reminiscent but very fresh
There are many traces of other bands in this album yet there is still a very fresh sound that's all their own. Excellent singing whether it's duality or just singularity. Good songwriting and lyrics that keep you listening and re-listening. Highly recommended to those who like "built to spill"," the shins", and "jane's addiction",.