# SHINER Frontman ALLEN EPLEY Releases New Single “Evangeline” Off Upcoming Debut Solo LP “Everything” out January 6th  

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- Published: 2022-11-18T13:00:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**SHINER Frontman Allen Epley Releases New Single “Evangeline” (ft. Pinback Drummer
Chris Prescott) Off Upcoming Debut Solo LP “Everything” out January 6th  **

[**Stream “Evangeline” Here**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12243769.31981.1.6d41d5b3651746317ded5656a8933d24)

_“Allen channelled the ’60s and ’70s AM Gold hits that he grew up on, while still
incorporating the more atmospheric vibes of Shiner and The Life and Times, and he
calls it “space country,” which is a very accurate description of the great lead
single “Thousand Yard Stare.””- _**_Brooklynvegan_**

_“…make no mistake: this is a masterpiece. The direction Epley is going is completely
justified and while it isn’t straight-up Americana, it’s raw and heartfelt enough
to find its way onto this page and, hopefully, into your ears.”- _**_Up To Hear_**

**Allen Epley** (Shiner, The Life and Times) has released **“Evangeline”** the next
single off his upcoming debut solo album **‘Everything,’** out Jan 6th on **Spartan
Records.**

**Pre-order ‘Everything’:** [https://spr.tn/allenepley](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12243769.31983.1.ce385f63429bf7e7e4dc93e5a003f4d1)

**Pre-save ‘Everything’:** [https://orcd.co/allenepley](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12243769.31984.1.c7884e8420b06267c524401b7fe30062)

**Stream “Evangeline” here:**[https://youtu.be/Rq9Q14Xm9r4](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12243769.31982.1.bd4039c2f8c2298517cd90321052075c)

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Epley says, _“Evangeline” is a reference to someone close to me who tends to bottle
up emotions until another person says something quite innocently, and it triggers
an often hateful and explosive response. So the smallest innuendo or slight from
a passerby could set off cannons and flamethrowers from this person. The offense
doesn’t merit the response many times, inflicting even more damage._

_“I wanted it to be a short song and get to the point pretty quick. Don’t bore us,
get to the chorus. Agreed. Vocally, I feel like the chorus part in particular reflects
a kind of Elliott Smith vibe. Mike Burns adds the beautiful lap steel line that 
perfectly echoes the hurt in the lyric. Drummer Chris Prescott (from Pinback) sets
the song in a restrained way then lets it open up on the solo section.”_

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As a child, Allen Epley (Shiner, The Life and Times) spent many more hours than 
his friends on the block did imprinting his parents’ record collection on his psyche.
Giant headphones secure, he would pore over the cover art and liner notes and enter
the world wrought by the giants of AM Gold — Bread, James Taylor, Carol King, Three
Dog Night, Blood Sweat and Tears, 5th Dimension.

Yet the music he would make in the 90’s and 00’s with his highly influential bands
doesn’t reveal these easy-listening origins. Shiner and The Life and Times reflected
more opaque images of bands like Swervedriver, Slint, early Smashing Pumpkins and
Failure. The smooth grooves and discernable lyrics about love — found and lost —
of the 70’s songsters of his adolescence hadn’t come back into view for him.

It wasn’t until he was writing a batch of cues for reality TV in 2018 that he realized
these ghosts had never left him but instead had embedded themselves in his subconscious;
barely buried in a shallow bed of memories, smells and colors of childhood. One 
of the cues written caught his attention as being something worth exploring; this
song became “Spider Rico” and was the bellwether that pointed the way toward Everything,
Epley’s debut solo LP.

The process was simple because there really was no process; lay down a simple drum
beat (the only kind a guitarist can play…) and build the songs from the bottom up.
They came easily and were as clear as the sunlight on a crisp fall morning walk 
to school, and each one revealed immediately what it was about: love, lost and found.

But this music does carry the Allen Epley torch of sadness in each song that has
colored his work in the 90’s and 00’s. Themes of giving in to excess, unrequited
love, giving up on loving someone. In “The EMT,” our hero is a flight paramedic 
with an undying love for someone he’s only seen from afar, until by (un)lucky fate,
she’s in a near fatal accident and he gets to finally hold her.

He enlisted Mike Burns, his friend and co-worker from Blue Man Group Chicago, to
add lap steel to one song. Of course, Burns ends up on almost the whole record and
informs us that what we’re hearing is actually a new genre known as “Space Country.”
Friend and producer Dan Dixon was brought in to mix and realized Allen’s drum parts
were good, but these tracks begged for tighter production of the 70’s. Chris Prescott(
Pinback, No Knife), Mike Myers (The Life and Times, The String and Return) and Darren
Dodd were brought on to finish these pieces beautifully.

The result is a record that begs and rewards repeated listenings, 9 songs and 41
minutes including a reimagined song from his band The Life and Times that dovetails
quite nicely. It’s a rich production that echoes the AM Gold of his childhood but
reaches into artistic territories that were generally reserved for Elliott Smith
and Sea Change-era Beck. [](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12243769.31985.1.407709898fdc03ca35752354d7ccf484)

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**‘Everything’ Track List** 
Thousand Yard Stare Evangeline Spider Rico The EMT 
Everything Deader Than Dead All Good Things I’m The One The Lucid Dream

**What others have said about Shiner:**
_“This Kansas City, MO band’s fifth album(
and first in 19 years) is a potent set of heavy post-hardcore combining grungy guitars
and muscular rhythms with melodic vocals and often-dark lyrics.” – _**_KEXP_**

_“Schadenfreude echoes Shiner’s classics while also fitting right in with today’s
post-hardcore scene. It’s got everything you want from this band — big riffs, good
hooks, a hard-hitting rhythm section, and pillowy atmosphere — and Shiner make it
sound like a day hasn’t gone by since 2001.” – _**_Brooklyn Vegan_**

_“[“Paul P Pogh” finds [Shiner] in fine form, and it sounds as fresh today as plenty
of the newer bands who take after Shiner’s sound.”- _**_Brooklynvegan_**

_“The new album brims with life, even as its lyrics explore some pretty dark subjects.
It’s heavy (though not metal), and heady too, truly living up to the tag of “space
rock.” Honestly, this album has some of the best lyrical hooks on it. After a few
spins, you’ll be humming and singing along to all of the songs on the album.”- _**
_New Noise Magazine_**

_“[Shiner’s] legacy is improved with this new offering. Quite an unsung hero of 
the 90s, it’s great to see this band have more in the tank.”- _**_New Fury Media_**

_“Life As A Mannequin” was a spaced-out slow churn, like Queens Of The Stone Age
or Soundgarden run through the Hum filter. The new “Paul P Pogh” is a faster, harder
spin on the same melodic hard rock sound.”- _**_Stereogum_**

_“Life As A Mannequin has, from the onset, a full framed big heavy rock sound. Massive
walls of guitars and heavy handed drum downbeats. When the chunky sounds get quiet
and the vocals, full of dreamy melodies supported by rock orchestrations but also
a definite art rock tone with lovely descending progs, I thought of a kind of blend
of Soundgarden and Queens Of The Stone Age. I love bands that can create dreamy 
heaviness. It is much needed in today’s musical landscape. Welcome back boys.”- _**
_American Pancake_**

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