When he's not stretching his boundaries on solo records, Kweller has taken on many collaborations: He joined with Ben Lee and Ben Folds for a 2004 EP called The Bens, and he contributed to the soft-rock band America's 2007 comeback album, Here and Now. Kweller has said that he'd had plans to make a country record ever since he stumbled into the genre while writing 2004's On My Way, so Changing Horses marks the culmination of a long process. In "Things I Like to Do," Kweller sings, "I like thinking 'bout the people who lived here before us / I like listening to my favorite music when I'm on the bus." His newest record, Changing Horses, makes good on both its title and Kweller's Texas roots by filtering his sunny, irreverent songwriting through a twang that offers up an acknowledgment of its debt to previous owners.
Additional Reeve Oliver eps were subsequently released, as well as a 2007 sophomore album, Touchtone Inferno. Since some of this material has been unavailable for almost seven years, this post will be a treat for established fans, and something of a sampler for the uninitiated. Nevertheless, these precursor recordings give an entertaining insight into what would eventually become a par excellence rock act, albeit invisible to the mainstream. That ep contains early incarnations of what would become some of Reeve Oliver’s most devastatingly melodic album tracks, including “I Want Burns” and “Yer Motion.”Īs for 2001’s You’re Gonna Win & California eps, I plead ignorant regarding the circumstances of their availability to the public at the time. My understanding is that the 2003 Reevolution ep was an official release, and even boasts the pedigree of being awarded 2003 rock album of the year, courtesy of the San Diego music awards.
The three collections this post concerns unfortunately do not exist in my physical collection, rather my hard drive, as I was only able to obtain them a few years ago via Soulseek.
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Before their self-titled debut album on Militia Records hit the racks in 2004, a series of Reeve Oliver eps preceded it. Reeve Oliver was initially a solo vehicle for O’Donnell, but he eventually teamed up with drummer Brad Davis, and more notably, Otis "O" Barthoulameu, helmsman for the vigorous San Diego punk-pop act, Fluf. Singer/guitarist Sean O’Donnell coincidentally recalls Kevin Ridel of Ridel High, and more recently AM Radio.
Reeve Oliver are an immensely talented power-trio from San Diego specializing in LOUD, riff-roaring power pop that in my opinion nearly outdoes some of their more famous, likeminded contemporaries, specifically Weezer, Foo Fighters, and Superdrag. On the contrary, the ‘00s have produced some solid bastions of hope, including Motion City Soundtrack, Ben Kweller, Drag the River, The National, My Vitriol, Jack’s Mannequin, Reeve Oliver, and many more I could go on about, but as for this post, we’re going to talk about that last one I just mentioned. From the scope of this blog, you might assume that the current decade is largely to my chagrin.
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