Tired of watching the final episode of The OC on repeat? Well, the FOX soap you stopped giving a shit about in ’04 is long gone, but Patrick Park isn’t. Remember “Life Is A Song,” the smooth ditty that helped bring the show’s four-year tenure to an emo-folk finale? Life is also a highway: Fast forward a few months and Park’s but a few weeks away from his sophomore full-length Everyone’s In Everyone. Fitting title for someone who made their name via a prime time teen soap, no? Okay, that’s our last OC joke because, really, the first single “Here We Are” shows a marked upgrade and depth to the L.A.-based singer/songwriter’s intensity, chops, and all-around skills.
Actually, the rambling three-minute meditation would make good sense for some desert-based moment of epiphany in a Wes Anderson flick (fitting, especially, if you remember Park’s old promo pics during his Richie Tenenbaum phase). We kid, but the track’s a great listen: check how this thing simmers into a low-level mountain-high dust spinner and oddly abridged denouement. Yup, dude’s good at endings ? dusty, elegant.
Everyone’s In Everyone is out 8/21 on Curb Appeal.
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His residency at The Living Room last month was awesome. Amazing guitar style.
Wait, can he smoke and play the harmonica at the same time?
He’s. That. Good.
i’ve got some love for patrick park. not least because he looks kinda like Sylar in that picture.
Another Arcade Fire rip-off NEXT!
A breath of fresh air. If you get the chance, see him live, you will be blown away. He really is fantastic. Brilliant lyricist. I was able to catch two nights at The Living Room in New York. Amazing.
I had the pleasure of playing various shows with Patrick when he was over in the UK a few years ago. Lovely guy, amazing guitarist and I consider myself lucky to have him as a friend. I think the best quote I heard was someone saying that his fingers look like a spider doing yoga.
You need to go out there and buy his music. Your life will be all the better for it.
Hey – does anyone know a website where I can get the lyrics to Here We Are? Thank you. :]
Anybody who thinks Patrick Park is an Arcade Fire rip-off is a fucking moron.