# SHINER Frontman ALLEN EPLEY Unveils New Music Video For “The EMT” Off Upcoming Debut Solo LP “Everything” – Out January 6th

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- Published: 2023-01-04T17:00:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**SHINER Frontman Allen Epley Unveils New Music Video For “The EMT” Off Upcoming
Debut Solo LP “Everything” – Out January 6th**

[**Stream The Video Here**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12811001.33348.1.82637d19f12c45b786b8cf9c8b730d4b)

_“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 a video for the track**“
The EMT”** 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=12811001.33351.1.03a8f4c5c91ee6eece16fc9b878bd9c5)

**Pre-save ‘Everything’:** [https://orcd.co/allenepley](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12811001.33352.1.e4a2716dd29f6872451a9d92af44b85f)

**Stream “The EMT” video here:** [https://youtu.be/awQKZr80a60](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12811001.33350.1.a5629c521b07bce722c6c970700025bc)

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Of the track, Epley says, _“The EMT” was laying around my folders for a few months
and was called “Spider Rico Two” because it had been written around the same time
and had a similar vibe as “Spider Rico” which I had finished earlier. I remember
having a hard time finding my footing on this one until I just stopped fighting 
it and went with my original intentions and just kind of allowed it to be what it
was. It all fell together when Mike Burns put his lap steel line on the song and
changed everything._

_“‘The EMT’ is a story about a flight paramedic who has a crush on someone from 
his town that he’s never met. He’s been content to just live in that world until
one evening fate intervenes and his crush ends up in a near-fatal car wreck. As 
he arrives on the scene he realizes who the victim is and instead of being distraught
by his discovery of who she is, he’s delighted that he’s able to finally help her
and be with her and hold her hand like he’s always dreamed of.”_

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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.  

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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_**

**Allen Epley Social Media:
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**Shiner Social Media:
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| [Facebook](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=12811001.33358.1.80d4b9f2860707f72aa4c18925ec4f22)
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