The 'Gum Drop XLVII: Hear New XYZ Affair, Win An
Epiphone Electric Guitar

post from Stereogum on 23 July 2008 12:31:00 PM. © Stereogum

The 'Gum Drop XLVII: Hear New XYZ Affair, Win An Epiphone Electric Guitar

The XYZ Affair found their way onto our radar with a slime-filled Nickelodeon-packed "All My Friends" video. The Brooklyn band's new Trials EP includes standout "Evening Life," a song that caught our attention before its video clip was even completed. This week's Drop featured the T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Minor Threat-referencing anthem. You can take a listen to it here. We asked frontman Alex Feder about the song's depiction of the poetry of youth culture. He went in depth, so we weren't able to print all of his "Evening Life" thoughts in the Drop, but check it out in full now:

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