In December 2007, Evan Hammer released his first album, Bright Day for a Frog's Rebellion - a diverse rock album that collects entrapped and disenchanted surrealistic visuals, modern garage rock tones and energy, a battering of longing and loss, and acoustic explorations of the worlds that lunatics and lovers build. Evan wrote the music and lyrics, played bass guitar, and was the producer for the album; he worked with four singers, three guitarists, two drummers, and an upright bassist to record it, and Jack Gauthier (Dispatch, John Hammond) and John Mailloux (Dispatch, Leah Stargazing) to ... (+) expand

In December 2007, Evan Hammer released his first album, Bright Day for a Frog's Rebellion - a diverse rock album that collects entrapped and disenchanted surrealistic visuals, modern garage rock tones and energy, a battering of longing and loss, and acoustic explorations of the worlds that lunatics and lovers build. Evan wrote the music and lyrics, played bass guitar, and was the producer for the album; he worked with four singers, three guitarists, two drummers, and an upright bassist to record it, and Jack Gauthier (Dispatch, John Hammond) and John Mailloux (Dispatch, Leah Stargazing) to mix and master it. Since the album has various singers and bands on it, the music is able to tap into a variety of rock styles - modern garage rock, acoustic folk, British rock, and even rockabilly. Bright Day for a Frog's Rebellion struggles with and celebrates the conflict between the bleak world of disappointment and frustration, and the surreal world of love and exploration.


Important and Semi-important Notes:

Evan lives in New York City.
He has been playing bass since he was eight.
He is looking for a singer who wants to play these songs live.


The Musicians and Additional Notes:

Ariel Levine (of Kindergarten) sings and plays guitar on tracks one, two, and six.
Ben Miller (of The Low Anthem) sings and plays guitar on tracks four, five, and nine.
Ross Beshear sings on tracks three, seven, and eight.
Joe Barney sings on track ten.
Bill Mead plays drums on tracks one, two, three, six, seven, eight, and ten.
Udi Levy plays guitar on tracks three, seven, eight, and ten.
Paul Mason plays drums on tracks five and nine.
Jeff Prystowky (of The Low Anthem) plays upright bass on track four.
Evan Hammer plays bass guitar on all tracks except for track four.
These songs were written by a younger man. (-) collapse