The Essex GreenBest The Essex Green Albums Ranked

Hardly Electronic

pastemagazine

8.3

“For nearly a decade ‘round the turn of the century, The Essex Green was one of the best peripheral bands—i.e. not The Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel or Olivia Tremor Control—affiliated with the influential indie-pop collective known as The Elephant 6 Recording Co. More precisely, many of those secondary Elephant 6 bands had a sort of hodgepodge quality. There were fleeting glimpses of good ”

Cannibal Sea

pitchfork

7.2

“Merge's Elephant 6 progeny come to terms with some contemporary sounds without straying too far from their cherished 1960s influences.”

The Long Goodbye

pitchfork

6.2

“Deep into the month of April, and still the hunt for the spring/summer albums of 2003 goes on, tendons weary, sleep deprived, hope fading. By now the CD wallet reserves are usually full of music for those precious few humidity-free days above sixty, but lately we've been forced to resort to the standbys of years past rather than fresh meat. Originality is not necessarily a prerequisite; any virall”