Everybody Come Outside

During a busy 2008, self-professed art-pop denizens Pomegranates found time to hunker down for a few weeks to record the bulk of Everybody Come Outside. Creatively and sonically, the album shows a marked improvement from its predecessor Everything Is Alive. Channeling influences ranging from Talking Heads and Brian Eno to French Kicks and Fela Kuti, the band decided to concoct a narrative in which each song would reveal a little bit about the unusual story of a character leaving home only to be abducted by a time traveler while swimming across the ocean, then taken to Jerusalem. Unlike their debut, Pomegranates tracked the majority of ECO separately, allowing the band to capture its vision for the story as closely as possible. Pomegranates enlisted TJ Lipple - known for his exceptional work with Aloha, MGMT, Headlights, Minus Story, and more - to mix and master the record. The result is dreamy and shimmering, with a story that could be a familiar bedtime tale as easily as it could be Michel Gondry's next blockbuster.