Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
sorry i am been busy....
wow
efren on the loose.
really apologize to the 4 followers i have. jk.
this will be short but i promise to get back on the blogger train.
we gots lots of exciting things coming up.
mad shows.
NEW ALBUM dropping June 28th, but will be available at ATHfest the previous weekend!!
RISE ON UP AND MELT!!!!
we got some special treats for the Athenites that weekend so be on the lookout.
We are so so so proud of the album. i am giddy with excitement to share it with yall!!!
i will even give yall a sneak peak of the art for it here!!
Writing songs for you
Under a velvet moon
Hearing lines of red
Into simple heads
Richer times unbound
Crisp strings ground
Light moods will pay
Please sit and stay
Leaving this bus stop
Sweat the next spot
Sweet faces smile
Over southern miles
Invent an escape
To stay up so late
In bound roads split
Our golden hit
Inside a brainstorm
Lost in being born
Say you this morning
Curled up in glory
Lets stay up together
Close like its forever
Highway guard lied
Just let mama try
Open the lines to the last station
Right next to love’s confession
Always knew how you felt
Please, rise on up and melt
title track from upcomer!!
thanks for loving.
SL
efren on the loose.
really apologize to the 4 followers i have. jk.
this will be short but i promise to get back on the blogger train.
we gots lots of exciting things coming up.
mad shows.
NEW ALBUM dropping June 28th, but will be available at ATHfest the previous weekend!!
RISE ON UP AND MELT!!!!
we got some special treats for the Athenites that weekend so be on the lookout.
We are so so so proud of the album. i am giddy with excitement to share it with yall!!!
i will even give yall a sneak peak of the art for it here!!
Writing songs for you
Under a velvet moon
Hearing lines of red
Into simple heads
Richer times unbound
Crisp strings ground
Light moods will pay
Please sit and stay
Leaving this bus stop
Sweat the next spot
Sweet faces smile
Over southern miles
Invent an escape
To stay up so late
In bound roads split
Our golden hit
Inside a brainstorm
Lost in being born
Say you this morning
Curled up in glory
Lets stay up together
Close like its forever
Highway guard lied
Just let mama try
Open the lines to the last station
Right next to love’s confession
Always knew how you felt
Please, rise on up and melt
title track from upcomer!!
thanks for loving.
SL
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
another great review!! Thanks!!!
Out of Athens, GA, a city that’s produced many great musicians in the past, comes yet another band whose music is definitely well-worth a listen. Efren, whose new EP was released this past August, pleases from the second you press play. Always Been A Bleeder is a seamless combination of influences: some tracks vibrate with psychedelic and fairly experimental folk while others have distinct country and rock roots.
As a five-track release, the music is alternatively celebratory and brooding, the first four tracks consistently switching between jaunty folk rock romps (“Potholes”) and dwelling, reflective tracks (“Next Tuesday”). “Rapids,” the closing track, follows the tradition of sounding more like something experimental that the band enjoyed recording instead of a polished track. It’s a nine-minute outlier that starts with chaotic and dissonant mixture of guitar plucks, twangs, wails and warbles, bells, and the occasional cymbal crash until two minutes in, Scott Leon O’Day’s dry voice joins in and the song metamorphoses into something gentler and more melodic. While Always Been A Bleeder clearly has the influence of older folk, their music is also distinctly contemporary. At times they sound like a more youthful and energized Tallest Man On Earth, and as advertised by the band, many of the tracks should be well-received by fans of Iron & Wine (particularly if you enjoyed Beam’s sound on The Shepard’s Dog).
The vocals are, in the tradition of many folk-singers past and present, dry and raspy, often more mumbles than articulate words, but they never grate. Lyrically, Efren stays introspective while avoiding self-indulgence, which leaves their music more free-spirited than heavy. Track for track, they engage from the get-go, and their sound only grows more and more enjoyable with each succeeding listen. While none of the tracks stand out as singles, Always Been A Bleeder lays down an outstanding outline for a future LP.
www.adequacy.net
September 15th, 2010 by Emily Graham
Thanks alot!!!
As a five-track release, the music is alternatively celebratory and brooding, the first four tracks consistently switching between jaunty folk rock romps (“Potholes”) and dwelling, reflective tracks (“Next Tuesday”). “Rapids,” the closing track, follows the tradition of sounding more like something experimental that the band enjoyed recording instead of a polished track. It’s a nine-minute outlier that starts with chaotic and dissonant mixture of guitar plucks, twangs, wails and warbles, bells, and the occasional cymbal crash until two minutes in, Scott Leon O’Day’s dry voice joins in and the song metamorphoses into something gentler and more melodic. While Always Been A Bleeder clearly has the influence of older folk, their music is also distinctly contemporary. At times they sound like a more youthful and energized Tallest Man On Earth, and as advertised by the band, many of the tracks should be well-received by fans of Iron & Wine (particularly if you enjoyed Beam’s sound on The Shepard’s Dog).
The vocals are, in the tradition of many folk-singers past and present, dry and raspy, often more mumbles than articulate words, but they never grate. Lyrically, Efren stays introspective while avoiding self-indulgence, which leaves their music more free-spirited than heavy. Track for track, they engage from the get-go, and their sound only grows more and more enjoyable with each succeeding listen. While none of the tracks stand out as singles, Always Been A Bleeder lays down an outstanding outline for a future LP.
www.adequacy.net
September 15th, 2010 by Emily Graham
Thanks alot!!!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
salt to be free. ~efren
Play up in the mountains
stay out here at home
too hot to be naked
we can sit inside alone
ride out to the mailbox
trying not to get lost
cool it off and sit down
figure out who's the boss
Realize our goals
magic can make it burn our souls
feel me try to retreat
over the edge i leak
kiss the boy goodnight
goin' solo for a while
find out we can breath
takes some salt to be free
~efren
on upcoming album
'Rise on up and Melt'
winter 2010
stay out here at home
too hot to be naked
we can sit inside alone
ride out to the mailbox
trying not to get lost
cool it off and sit down
figure out who's the boss
Realize our goals
magic can make it burn our souls
feel me try to retreat
over the edge i leak
kiss the boy goodnight
goin' solo for a while
find out we can breath
takes some salt to be free
~efren
on upcoming album
'Rise on up and Melt'
winter 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
YIPEE! New release and big shows this weeks and live set for free!!
wow.
i like playing music
first
Today is the official worldwide release of our new ep 'Always Been a Bleeder'
get it here
www.efrenmusic.com
or now on itunes!!
yes!!
next
FREE DOWNLOAD OF NEW LIVE SET! free to be live, vol. 1
or just stream it
and FINALLY!
THE BIG SHOW!!!!!! to celebrate the Worldwide release of our EP!!!!
Hope yall are well
and hoping we will see ya FRIDAY AT LITTLE KINGS
i like playing music
first
Today is the official worldwide release of our new ep 'Always Been a Bleeder'
get it here
www.efrenmusic.com
or now on itunes!!
yes!!
next
FREE DOWNLOAD OF NEW LIVE SET! free to be live, vol. 1
or just stream it
and FINALLY!
THE BIG SHOW!!!!!! to celebrate the Worldwide release of our EP!!!!
Hope yall are well
and hoping we will see ya FRIDAY AT LITTLE KINGS
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