Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The Eames Era Is Over


I was doing some reading over at Noel Murray's Popless column on the AV Club today and read a little blurb he did on The Eames Era song "All of Seventeen" off their EP, The Second Eames Era (Murray goes on to make some nice insights about how so much good indie references these "off-canon" bands, which I think is a great term for it).

It's not even one of my favorite songs of theirs -- I thought Heroes and Sheroes was chock full of very good ones -- but it did remind me that I wanted to post some unfortunate developments. I'm a big fan, and for the past month I'd been trying to track down the band for an interview or something for this here blog. I finally got a reply from Grant Widmer bearing the (relatively) sad news:
That's right, The Eames Era are no more. Ashlin and Greg moved to Chicago in the
past few months and they are on to other things. Ted, Brian and I have also
moved to New Orleans and we are hard at work on a new album. As I said before,
Brian got married this week and his life has been very busy so it's still
unclear what kind of role he'll have in the new group. But Ted and I have been
traveling to record with Daniel Black, the producer of our last album, in D.C.
since January. We are about 1/3 finished and hope to be all done in May. Then it
will be time to tour for a while. So I'll keep you posted. We'll definitely be
spending time in D.C. so I'm sure we'll cross paths sometime.

It's a sad moment when one of your pet bands dies. Rob went through this with Field Music, G.L. and I both bore witness and tears at the demise of The Bigger Lovers. It makes sense, though. It's a competitive musical climate these days, no matter how catchy your delicate, Saturday-Looks-Good-To-Me-influenced indie pop records are. I applaud the bands that tough it out and stay together, but I empathize with those who don't. The bright side, however, is that often these things turn out for the better: Rob's big into School of Language these days, and the breakup of The Bigger Lovers just led me to check out their other projects, namely Mazarin and the Pernice Bros -- both Rockist staples.

So here's to you, The Eames Era, may we hear from your respective members' new projects soon.
The Eames Era - "Both Hands Full"
The Eames Era - "Last to Know"
The Eames Era - "Go to Sleep"

18 comments:

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Anonymous said...

That is a shame. The Eames Era were really good, one of the bands I would love to have seem had them come anywhere near me. Oh well. I hope they find success and happiness.

Jeff

Anonymous said...

Eames Era was one of the bands I wanted to see make it. They were fresh and independent and they made two solid records. Everyone should get them while they can.

Anonymous said...

Check out Eames singer Ashlin Phillips' latest project. She has sung a duet with Harlan guitarist Britt King (aka Polly Math) on the new EP "Kid vs Camera"...It's out now via American Thrift on iTunes and at myspace.com/americanthriftmedia. It's hot!

Anonymous said...

I found the video. You can hear Ashlin in the first song clip here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YQAHKYrSAKo

Anonymous said...

I downloaded Sunshine Someday, and it's cool...A little folky/groovy song. Ashlin is awesome!

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