I ditched out on drinks in honor of Zoviet’s visit last night to check out L.A. locals, Earlimart. I guess it was the last night of their tour, and a sort of return home for them, so they played a good set with some new songs. I like their Elliott Smith-inspired album, Treble & Tremble, but I pretty much thought that every song they played was “Heaven Adores You” until they finally played that and I couldn’t mistake other songs for it anymore. I must not pay enough attention to song titles anymore. Lead signer Aaron Espinoza sounded even more Elliott Smith-ey than I had expected, and less like Grandaddy or Sparklehorse, who they are often also compared to. I guess that it must also be a thing for the groups in The Ship, that the vocals are all breathy and sort of wisper-sung. The show felt more sceney than any other show I’ve been to in L.A. so far, which I guess is because they are from the neighborhood (Eagle Rock?) and most everybody knew each other. Oh, and I noticed that couple of the Silversun Pickups were there… as was the Sea Level Records dude.
: Earlimart - Heaven Adores You (video) :
: Earlimart - Across The City (demo) :
[…] i keep seeing the silversun pickups wherever i go. i think they are stalking me. first i saw the bassist, nikki, at masa one sunday. then i saw her again at the clap your hands say yeah show. then last week i saw the drummer and keyboardist, christopher and joe at the earlimart show last week. tuesday all four were hanginig out at the great northern show at spaceland. the last staw was when i saw lead singer brian and his girlfriend leaving the dios show at amoeba last night. ridiculous. […]
[…] Freed and I checked out Band of Horses at King King last night, another Hollywood venue that was new to me. They were opening for Eagle Rock’s Earlimart, who I saw not all that long ago, around the same time I first saw Band of Horses. Earlimart was good, and sounded much like they did back in October, but with a whole new assortment of tracks, presumably recent results from ongoing recording sessions. Oh and Josh Ritter played as well, and while I mostly wasn’t feeling his stuff, there was what must have been a 10 minute epic, “Thin Blue Flame” midway through the set that was amazing. All I remember was this string of lines mid-song as it built momentum: “Singing about vengeance like it’s the joy of the lord / Bringing justice to the enemies instead of the other way around / They’re guilty where killed and they killed where they’re found.” Very Springsteen, totally moving. It was a great intro, but I (as well as a good segment of the crowd) was really there to see Horses in the context of their record, released the day before. […]
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