Artists starting with E

Correct Behavior

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Eternal Summers, “Correct Behavior” (Kanine, 2012)
Interesting blend of indie-guitar-rock styles here. Some of it is like light, beachy garage-punk, but there are thicker, dronier (though still melodic) passages that draw on similar ‘90s precedents such as Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s recent stuff. Anyway it’s all ultra-listenable.
Try 3, 4, 5, 9.
1/13/13

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Fanfare in the Garden

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Essential Logic, “Fanfare in the Garden” (Kill Rock Stars, 2003; original recordings 1978-1999)
Lora Logic was the original sax player for X-Ray Spex, and this collects the bulk of her solo work. It’s all unique and fascinating, but her late-70’s stuff was exceptionally great, a pathbreaking blend of winsomely melodic punk and explosively eccentric art-rock that equally foreshadowed twee-pop, noise-rock, and even riot grrrl.
Try disc 1: 1, 8; disc 2: 10, 15.
2/14/13

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Creepin’ Mujetderreh

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Erl, “Creepin’ Mujetderreh” (Erl, 1988)
Vanished-on-release curiosity that’s about as far-out as music-with-guitars making vaguely rock-like maneuvers can get. “Gertars” and “Glutars” execute tonality-sidestepping runs that come off like someone practicing blues scales in a dimension with totally alien laws of physics, then suddenly slam into teeth-jarring blocks of treble-chordage. Close your eyes and you’ll see staircases spiraling up into nowhere, hallucinating winos running down blind alleys, you name it. Play A/1, B/1, they’re actually parts 1 and 2 of the same composition, and all should be played until something really bad happens to your central nervous system.
6/9/19

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Killed ‘Em Deader ‘N A Six-Card Poker Hand

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Epsilons, “Killed ‘Em Deader ‘N A Six-Card Poker Hand” (Retard Disco, 2006)
Second album from Ty Segall’s pre-solo band. This is way more straight-ahead garage punk than his solo work (like 1965 versus 1968), but pretty mind-bending in its sheer banging, howling abandon.
Try A/3, A/5, B/3, B/4, B/5.
1/26/12

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Desperate, Scared But Social

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Emily’s Sassy Lime, “Desperate, Scared But Social” (Kill Rock Stars, 1995)
Lost riot grrrl classic from these three California sisters (?) (two of ‘em were, anyway). The r. g. sound’s classic surf/garage/girl-group structures, but chopped up and delivered through a cloud of guitar-fuzz and a truly pummel-rhythmic attack.
Try A/2, A/4, A/6, A/8
1/23/14

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Desperate, Scared But Social

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Emily’s Sassy Lime, “Desperate, Scared But Social” (Kill Rock Stars, 2005)
Formed by the Yao sisters, Wendy and Amy, and their high-school friend Emily Ryan, Emily’s Sassy Lime were true teenage rock and rollers. Inspired by a Bikini Kill show they snuck out to see, they wrote songs over the phone and almost never rehearsed, because their parents made them stay home and study, then broke up when they graduated and went off to different colleges! This is their second, last and best album, surf/garage/girl-group stylings cloaked in loud, bewildering clouds of amp-fuzz and propelled by thick, pummeling mid-tempo rhythm, with awesome lyrics – elliptical Valley-Girl putdowns, teen-delinquent fantasies.
Picks: 4, 6, 9, 11

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Clambake

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Elvis Presley, “Clambake” (RCA Victor, 1967)
Late entry from the man’s “soundtrack era,” on the very eve of the ’68 comeback, so there’s more of an emphasis on gyrating, down-and-dirty rockabilly revamps than a few years earlier, but plenty of props-department-supplied local-color silliness remains for those (like me) who find the preposterous aspects of Elvis’s work a crucial part of his (and rock as a whole’s) appeal.
Try 1/ 2,1/ 4, 1/6, 2/5
4/7/19

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Elastica

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Elastica, “Elastica” (DGC, 1995)
Once described as “the pinkest thing ever to happen to Pink Flag,” Elastica pilfered from the catchiest, punchiest late-’70s punk and new wave (and fielded the lawsuits to prove it), but filtered it through a gritty-yet-graceful wall of guitar and juicy double-timed basslines that were all their own. There’s a pure, physical joy to their music that’s very unusual, and still sounds fresh today.
Picks: 9, 14

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Pet Town

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Eerie Wanda, “Pet Town” (Joyful Noise, 2019)
Of Croatian origin, the woman behind the Eerie Wand nom-de-pop currently works out of Canada, though I initially thought it was Belgium, based I think on this album’s resemblance to a lot of the stuff on Belgium’s Les Disques de Crepuscule label (Anna Domino, Antena, etc.). Minimal keyboard pop where the sound is cute and spooky, like maribos or windchimes, the feeling is of the magic and serendipity of everyday life, and the songs owe something to doo-wop, bossa nova and French yé-yé pop as well as the more overt postpunk/avant references. Really nice.
Try 1/3, 1/ 4,, 2/1, 2/3
4/7/19

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More Bad Times

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Ed’s Redeeming Qualities, “More Bad Times” (Figuring fish, 1990)
Guy/gal-vocated acoustic stick-figure-pop, like an East Coast version of early Beat Happening. Their best stuff really captures the unassuming intensity of the everyday-life vignettes they outline.
Try 2, 5
6/0/11

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