Everclear – A Beautiful Life
7th August, 2007 by Chewbacca
Everclear, pet project of Art Alexakis (with his awesome alliterating name) has, since 1992, pumped out a stream of heavy, grungy rock – and made the US charts on several occasions. Sometimes they’ve been in the public eye for less than great reasons. The band, originally consisting of Art, Craig Montoya and Greg Eklund, were signed to a major record label with several big releases, but demand died out after several albums. That wasn’t to say the musical talent was drying up, as some of the tracks on today’s album, “Slow Motion Daydream”, exemplify. After the album the band split up – since then Art has reborn Everclear with new members and released an album in 2006, “Welcome to the Drama”. Today’s track is “A Beautiful Life”, which is a (some might say cheesy) favourite of mine:
