New Patrick Park - "Here We Are"
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.
Patrick Park - "Here We Are" (MP3)
Everyone's In Everyone is out 8/21 on Curb Appeal.
Posted at 3:29 PM in MP3
Tags: Patrick Park
His residency at The Living Room last month was awesome. Amazing guitar style.
Score = 0
Wait, can he smoke and play the harmonica at the same time?
Score = 0
He's. That. Good.
Score = 0
i've got some love for patrick park. not least because he looks kinda like Sylar in that picture.
Score = 0
Another Arcade Fire rip-off NEXT!
Score = -1
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.
Score = 0
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.
Score = 0
Hey - does anyone know a website where I can get the lyrics to Here We Are? Thank you. :]
Score = 0
Anybody who thinks Patrick Park is an Arcade Fire rip-off is a fucking moron.
Score = 2