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Even If and Especially When
Rock · 1987 · 7 tracks

Even If and Especially When

Screaming Trees

A swirling collision of 60s psychedelia and 80s underground grit. Lanegan’s baritone anchors a storm of fuzzed-out guitars and haunting organ melodies.

1987 · SST Records

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Even If and Especially When sounds like the exact moment the 1960s garage-psych dream curdled into the rainy, isolated reality of the 1980s Pacific Northwest. It is an album defined by a heavy, humid atmosphere, where the shimmering textures of a Vox organ are constantly threatened by the blunt force of punk-adjacent drumming and distorted guitars. There is a sense of deep-seated restlessness here, a feeling of being trapped in a small town while your mind wanders through surreal, lysergic landscapes. It is music that feels both ancient and urgent, like a transmission from a basement that hasn't been opened in decades.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks
02
Straight Out to Any Place
2:00
03
World Painted
2:59
05
Girl Behind the Mask
2:33
06
Flying
3:14
08
Other Days and Different Places
3:12
09
The Pathway
3:25
10
You Know Where It’s At
2:29
Moments Worth Listening For
The way the swirling organ on 'Transfiguration' fights for space against the jagged, overdriven guitar riffs.
Mark Lanegan's voice dropping into a cavernous, vibrating low note during the bridge of 'Cold Rain'.
The frantic, almost uncontrolled drum fill that kicks off 'Don't Look Down', setting a pace of barely contained chaos.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Even If and Especially When sound next to the rest of Screaming Trees's catalogue?

Surreal Abstract+2.2σ

The writing leans far further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

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