EVERCLEAR

Everclear: Art Alexakis (vocals, guitar); Craig Montoya (vocals, bass); Greg Eklund (vocals, drums).
Engineers: Brad Cook, Dan Marnien, Neal Avron.
Recorded at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California.
Volume One, released earlier in 2000, was Everclear's sunniest, most pop-oriented, and instrumentally varied album. Volume Two, on the other hand, is closer to alt-rock business as usual, a heavy guitar album with leader Art Alexakis as lyrically cheesed-off as ever (and brilliantly so--not for nothing did Randy Newman announce that Alexakis was his current fave songwriter).
Put the two halves together and what do you have? Well, a modern equivalent of the Beatles White Album isn't as far-fetched as it might seem. This is a band clearly at the top of its game. Highlights include the ironic, funny, and infectiously catchy "Rock Star" ("I want a girlfriend who doesn't drink beer," Alexakis notes in his list of reasons for wanting to be one), the angsty "When it All Goes Wrong Again," and "Out of My Depth," a rousing power-chord laden ode to emotional ambiguity.

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