Tedd Cookerly, Carl Weaver, and Eric Wilkins contradict every known stereotype for this collection of guys. Every Day Life is a five-year-old band that got its start when Carl, Eric and Tedd got together after splitting from their separate projects to sharpen their skills as one complete entity. Their non-threatening, non-imposing means take the form of raw, passionate music and lyrics that don't shrink behind appeasement or apology. Every Day Life chose this format because they believe strongly that it is the most effective. "We want to take music that has a positive outlook and flow to audiences everywhere," Tedd confides. At first glance, they are unpretentious and reassuringly ordinary until their stage presence rips the rug right out from under your feet. In fact, Tedd has been known to literally knock himself out from sheer enthusiasm.
Every Day Life's sound also clashes with the notion that "good" music has to be non-controversial and sedate. Politically and stylistically, Every Day Life brings to mind the challenging sensibilities of all musical styles and genres - although they assert that their influences were and still are anything and everything but predictable or redundant. Roiling guitar and synths counterbalance manic flatline vocals; this is what makes up the power groove, a mixture of hip-hop and alternative.
Deeply convicted emotion and uncompromised belief are the links between Every Day Life and the audience that starves for answers. It is not by accident EDL's albums read like a sermon out of the Old Testament. Although, on the surface, it may be about anger and discontentment, the ultimate message is one of hope and redemption, despite the frustrations we all share from living in a society that values power and image above the personal well-being of its communities.
If there is an answer-and Every Day Life knows very well that there is - it's clearly not coming from within us . . .
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