Park, Patrick
Everyone's In Everyone
When this album was originally released on Curb Appeal in 2007, Stereogum gave it this review: NEW PATRICK PARK - "HERE WE ARE" Tired of watching the final episode of The OC on repeat? Well, the FOX soap you stopped giving a shit about in '04 is long gone, but Patrick Park isn't. Remember "Life Is A Song," the smooth ditty that helped bring the show's four-year tenure to an emo-folk finale? Life is also a highway: Fast forward a few months and Park's but a few weeks away from his sophomore full-length Everyone's In Everyone. Fitting title for someone who made their name via a prime time teen soap, no? Okay, that's our last OC joke because, really, the first single "Here We Are" shows a marked upgrade and depth to the L.A.-based singer/songwriter's intensity, chops, and all-around skills. Actually, the rambling three-minute meditation would make good sense for some desert-based moment of epiphany in a Wes Anderson flick (fitting, especially, if you remember Park's old promo pics during his Richie Tenenbaum phase). We kid, but the track's a great listen: check how this thing simmers into a low-level mountain-high dust spinner and oddly abridged denouement. Yup, dude's good at endings . dusty, elegant. and Spin said: Los Angeles-based troubadour Patrick Park, the man behind the O.C.'s softly strummed death knell, has announced the release of Everyone's in Everyone, his sophomore album and follow up to Loneliness Knows My Name out Aug. 7 via Curb Appeal. The new album was recorded in Los Angeles and North Carolina with cast of renowned producers and mixers, including Dave Trumfio (Wilco), Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck), David Bianco (Tom Petty), and Chris Stamey (Whiskeytown). Everyone's in Everyone will deliver tracks with titles like "Life is a Song," "Arrive Like a Whisper," and "Saint With a Fever," and not unlike another fan appeasing band, Park will deliver his new tracks and more to both Los Angeles and New York City with alternating coast-to-coast four night residencies in the cities' Spaceland and Living Room venues, respectively. Patrick recently took this album back from Curb Appeal, and it is now being re-released independently.