Album Of The Day: The Everglow by Mae

Album Art of Mae's The Everglow album - A drawing of a forest behind a metal fence with vines growing over it. In the middle, there's a path with a an open gate and a man with a suitcase is standing looking into the gate, and there is a bit of a glow from the forest behind him. The colors may be painted with watercolors or something, because the edges are not fully colored out of the grass, the path, the sky. The man in the middle also is black-and-white only, not in color. On the top of the gate, the metal spells out 'The Everglow' and there's a hanging piece of wood with 'by mae' written on it.

Released on this day 20 years ago, this is a concept album on relationships and love by the band Mae. The packaging and the recording does a really good job of reinforcing the fact that it's a concept album, as the booklet with the CD looks like a book and has an image associated with each song that shows a man on a journey to finding love. And on the first and last track, a narrator opens and closes the "audio portion" of the album and encourages the listener to "read along" with the booklet. Musically, it's an alternative/rock album that is not too innovative, but works really well as a cohesive whole thanks to their passionate musicianship and vocals, plus the emotional and easy-to-identify-with lyrics. This may still be Mae's most-revered album, and I get to see them play live tonight for the first time too, so I may come back as an ever bigger fan of this band.

Release Year: 2005
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