“For nearly a decade ‘round the turn of the century, The Essex Green was one of the best peripheral bands—i.e. not The Apples In Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel or Olivia Tremor Control—affiliated with the influential indie-pop collective known as The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
More precisely, many of those secondary Elephant 6 bands had a sort of hodgepodge quality. There were fleeting glimpses of good ”