Slip Inside This House/Slide Machine/She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)/Nobody To Love/Baby Blue/ Earthquake/Dust/Levitation/I Had To Tell You/Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)
Easter Everywhere was the follow up album from garage rockers 13th Floor Elevators. It finds them broadening their horizons a little to imbibe some of the psychedelic flavouring of the time.
“More focused and even trippier than their first album, Easter Everywhere features the 13th Floor Elevators at their best. The songs are eerie, rambling, potent and powerful. Nearly every track on this album is a classic, they are all great.”
“I love psych music, but I can't listen to this. The sound of the guy 'playing' the jug is too much for me to take, and the songs just don't do anything for me. People swear by this album, but I think you had to be there to appreciate it.”
“This is probably the Elevator's best album, they were truly ahead of their time and it is unfortunate that too few of us 'got' them when they were around. Roky Erickson is a passionate and unique singer and songwriter and Stacy Sutherland is one of the pioneering psychedelic guitarists. This band definitely 'burned out' all too quickly, but they produced two great albums, this and their debut.”
“Further from the garage than their first record this is more musically strange, less frenetic, less driving, less scary even, than the earlier record. It's gorgeous, mind-widening music, great rock and roll. It provides a most amazing listen, complete with hypnotic drumming, oscillators and some feedback.”
“During the making of this album, the Elevators had their collective chakras pulled into alignment and God was riding behind them. This is what it sounds like when you are seeing and saying, singing and playing through God's heart and eyes. Every little atom puts out its utmost. Even your mistakes and limitations are graceful. The experience is ecstatic and harrowing. Easter Everywhere is the bulls eye you hit when you are the arrow and God is the bow.”
“There are some very good songs on here, notably Dust, but a fair number of the tracks are quite forgettable. And the 'oscillator effect' really does get annoying after a while. So if you like psychedelic music don't expect a masterpiece.”
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