soruce from www.punknews.org
Jeremy Enigk has announced the impending release of his first solo album in 10 years. The former Sunny Day Real Estate frontman started recording for the album late last year, working with his co-producer Josh Meyers. The recording is expected to wrap up at the end of February with Enigk will be manning the guitar, keyboards and bass for the album while being assisted by several other musicians and a string section. The sound of the album is hinted at being "similar to, but not quite as explosive, as the lush orchestral sounds of Return of the Frog Queen," his last solo outing.
So, you may ask “who the hell is Jeremy Enigk?” Well kids, he is the singer/songwriter for the mid-90s band Sunny Day Real Estate. Their album, Diary is one of the most influential emo records of all time (the others being Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade and Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy and Dear You). Sunny Day Real Estate “redefined, reintroduced, and recontextualized the word emo for an entirely new generation.” Jeremy Enigk’s vocal style and lyrical content is sincere and heartrending: “He sang desperately about losing himself, about subsuming himself in something greater.” Haha, I’ve got to stop this ranting before it goes out of hand... I wrote a 20-pages long essay for my popular culture class last year on the evolution of emo, so now I think I know everything there's to know about the subject...
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