Ego vs Id

Blues. Rock. Country. If these descriptors were good enough for Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash, they should be good enough for Ego vs Id. Ego vs Id does not want to be a victim of the great hyphen war. E.V.I is a rock band in the classic sense. They move their audience with extremely personal songs about love, pain, Lenny Bruce, and girls named Jenny without ever becoming exclusionary. Rock started out as the blues played faster and with more volume, and the best rock musici...

Blues. Rock. Country. If these descriptors were good enough for Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash, they should be good enough for Ego vs Id. Ego vs Id does not want to be a victim of the great hyphen war. E.V.I is a rock band in the classic sense. They move their audience with extremely personal songs about love, pain, Lenny Bruce, and girls named Jenny without ever becoming exclusionary. Rock started out as the blues played faster and with more volume, and the best rock musicians have continually found ways to reinvent the blues. It’s about creating something new that feels old, and Ego Vs Id does this. Their debut full length record, TASTE is an album that will make you want to fall in love again just so you can remember the bitter-sweet pain of heartbreak. There’s a lot of anger and passion in the music. It’s survivor anger, redemption anger, the type of barbaric yawp Whitman wrote about once upon a time. You can hear it in the vocals, in the slow-stabbing chords—Ego vs id wants to hurt you, not sadistically and not permanently, but hurt you all the same.