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| Everything All the Time | 
 enlarge | Artist: Band Of Horses
Label: Sub Pop
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $9.16
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Avg. Customer Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 1532
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 690
UPC: 098787069020
EAN: 0098787069020
ASIN: B000E6GBV2
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | The First Song | | • | Wicked Gil | | • | Our Swords | | • | The Funeral | | • | Part One | | • | The Great Salt Lake | | • | Weed Party | | • | I Go to the Barn Because I Like The | | • | Monsters | | • | St. Augustine |
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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
Album Description
Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and bassist Mat Brooke formed Band Of Horses in 2004 after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa's Wierd. Carissa's Wierd trafficked in sadly beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor. Band Of Horses rises from those ashes. Buoyed by Bridwell's warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which channel a strange brew of Wayne Coyne, Neil Young, and Doug Martsch), the group's woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing, and hope. Both raggedly epic and delicately pensive, this is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows.
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 Pass It Along April 14, 2006
39 out of 49 found this review helpful
The importance of having friends with good taste comes home to roost. How long would have it taken me otherwise to find out about such a great album? Band of Horses takes 36 minutes to create a perfect album with no song too short and no song too long. It's almost like they heard "It Still Moves" by My Morning Jacket and said "Not bad, but we could do it much better and quicker" and they wouldn't be lying.
Taking nothing away from MMJ and It Still Moves which was a fantastic album, but It Still Moves wasn't exactly a lesson in brevity. Band of Horses borrows a small page from MMJ's overall sound but makes an entirely new and fantastic package. This is one album that requires no second guessing of track selection, location, etc. You just put it on and let it go. The cd player will do the rest.
A great album through and through. It's certainly a sound for sore ears as I eagerly awaited my favorite new spring time CD. This is it, enjoy!
4.5 Stars... Outstanding "debut" album May 8, 2006
29 out of 33 found this review helpful
Band of Horses is a "new" band, in the sense that this is their debut album, but these guys have been around for quite a long time. Ben Bridwell and Matt Brooke, the main creative forces behind Band of Horses, were in a previous band, Carrisa's Weird, for many years, but that band never got anywhere.
"Everything All the Time" (10 tracks, 36 min.) brings a sound reminiscent of early My Morning Jacket, with a mix of The Band and Neil Young, and quite terrific at that. The opener "First Song" sets the table, but followed by the harder-rocking "Wicked Gil". The standout is the current radio single "The Funeral", a 5+ min. melancholic tune that resonates long after you hear it and makes you want to hear it again and again. Other highlights include the pensive, acoustic "I Go to the Barn Because I Like Her" and the closer "St. Augustine".
If you are wondering where I found out about Band of Horses, they get a lot of airplay on the internet-only station WOXY.com, the best indie-station in the country, bar none, check it out. Band of Horses is coming to Cincinnati in June, and I can't wait to see how these songs translate in a live setting. "Everything All The Time" is an outstanding album, highly recommended!
This is Only My Opinion January 25, 2007
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
Maybe this is a coincidence, maybe not, but I just noticed something:
Band of Horses
2006 Debut Album = Everything All the Time
First Song = "The First Song"
Built to Spill
1993 Debut Album = Ultimate Alternative Waivers
First Song = "The First Song"
Regardless, with their release of "Everything All the Time" last year, Band of Horses has confidently displayed their potential to act as the forerunner of our beloved Indie Rock sound for the remainder of this decade, much as Built to Spill did in the 90's.
If you like this record, then you need to hear the following albums:
Built to Spill - "Perfect from Now On" & "Keep it like a Secret"
Iron & Wine - "The Creek Drank the Cradle" & "Our Endless Numbered Days"
If you insist on doing your silly I-Pod thing, then simply download the songs "The Funeral" and "I Go to the Barn Cause I Like The", and listen for yourself. If the transitions in these unforgettable songs do no leave you breathless, then there is something wrong with your ears, or maybe your ridiculous I-Pod.
Clearly heavily influenced by both Built to Spill and Iron & Wine, Band of Horses have crafted an album combining both the finest characteristics of the brilliant electric guitar hook, the backbone of indie rock, with the stripped-down acoustic simplicity of a back country road that has never seen electricity. Although Doug Martsch and Sam Beam should be flattered, they must also realize that Band of Horses are attempting to take music to a new level here. No joke.
Other than the lead singers' voices, I do not hear much similarity in the sound of Band of Horses compared to My Morning Jacket. Band of Horses has nailed an extremely complex sound that mesmerizes the listener as both an otherworldly, yet incredibly intimate experience. My Morning Jacket's sound is much more traditional, alt-country, or even classic rock influenced (CCR, The Band), and in my opinion is OK, but a little boring.
If there were anything negative I would have to say about this great debut record, it would be that it is too short. It almost feels like an EP, which inevitably leaves you wanting to hear more. This is good and bad. Hopefully, the next Band of Horses record will more fully develop and expand on the initial ideas and expressions laid down on "Everything all the Time".
And to the reviewer Atom Jack (10/10/06), it might interest you to know that Ben Bridwell is originally from South Carolina. If fact, the band has recently moved back there to record their next album. With this knowledge, one might say that the lyrics to the beautiful song "Part One" are quite meaningful, unlike your idiotic review of this fantastic album.
 Yawn October 10, 2006
11 out of 50 found this review helpful
This is boring faceless alt country indie rock. These guys have less outlaw cred than John Kerry at a 1000 dollar a plate dinner. Normally I don't knock bands for doing their own thing, but here the affectation is too much."when we leave this place and drive back to carolinaand down to savannah and
stay.." yeah right. Friggin Seattlites. Maybe drive down to Olympia to get some chai tea. It strikes me how if any band musters up a few country chords, and wear trucker hats they will get a decent review on pitchfork.
Rant over.
They shoot Horses, Don't They? July 4, 2006
8 out of 32 found this review helpful
Despite some evident talent, this Band of Horses never gets out of the paddock. Probably one of the most strangled sounding CDs I've ever heard, the fish bowl vocals constantly fight with the rhythm guitars, but neither ever manage to break out: the vocals failing to produce a shred of emotion (or clarity) and the guitars always a couple of steps from a melody. With the exception of perhaps one or two numbers, each track stays in exactly the same mid-range making for a truly dull and repititious listening experience.
As noted by others on this board, BOH does indeed sound like a My Morning Jacket (recorded in a silo) knockoff, albeit without the passion, lead guitar, or lengthy takes.
Ultimately, I'd rather listen to Neil sing "Cowgirl in the Sand" for the 4,876,386th time.
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