Everything All The Time (20th Anniversary Edition)

At risk of exposing ones age, it does feel like only yesterday that we were in our Band of Horses phase, and that's in part due to the lasting effect Everything All The Time had on indie and pop culture for years following it's release in 2006. The emotional pull of these tracks landed them in countless movie and television soundtracks, moving between fragile restraint and quietly monumental singles across it's 10 tracks. This 20th anniversary edition presents Everything All The Time alongside early recordings, live cuts and an early demo of ‘The Funeral’. - Flying Out

Achieving musical transcendence is a tricky feat, almost definitively. If it happens at all, it happens naturally — and perhaps nobody knows that better than Seattle, Washington’s Band of Horses. 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. And, Band of Horses rises from the ashes of that well-loved and short-lived band. After playing music with each other for over a decade, Bridwell and Brooke picked up together again when Bridwell began fleshing out his compositions post-Carissa’s. 

“It was really just a natural thing we started doing,” explains Bridwell. Buoyed by Bridwell’s warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which strangely channel a dichotomous blend of Wayne Coyne, Brian Wilson and Doug Martsch,) Band of Horses’ woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing and hope. At times raggedly epic (“The Great Salt Lake”) and delicately pensive (“St. Augustine,” “Monsters”), Everything All the Time is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows.

Tracklist

1. The First Song
2. Wicked Gil
3. Our Swords
4. The Funeral
5. Part One
6. The Great Salt Lake
7. Weed Party
8. I Go To The Barn Because I Like This
9. Monsters
10. St. Augustine
11. (Biding Time Is A) Boat To Row
    
    
12. Part Two
    
    
13. Coal Mine
    
    
14. Worry Song
    
    
15. The End's Not Near
    
    
16. The Funeral (Demo Version)
    
    
17. Wicked Gil (Demo Version)
    
    
18. Our Swords (Demo Version)
    
    
19. I Go to the Barn Because I Like The / Monsters (Live at The Crocodile)