Evermore’s journey from three home-schooled brothers in country New Zealand to taking over the Australian charts with the debut album Dreams in 2004 is almost the stuff of indie-rock folklore. Since then the band’s anthems of youth, love and lament have continued to capture a nation and traverse the seas with an impressive string of chart hits, critical acclaim, industry awards and sold out tours. On the precipice of the release of their fourth studio album, the veteran band remains wide-eyed, ever ambitious and, amazingly, all still under the age of thirty! In many ways their journey is just beginning.
Self-recorded, produced, mixed, and released, the new album is aptly titled Follow the Sun. The results are Evermore’s most accomplished effort to date – sitting somewhere between early U2 and Simple Minds expansiveness, bluesy late Beatle’s jams and driving 70’s folk, all connected by a mesh of hopeful, engaging lyrics. As Jon explains, “From jamming together and trying out harmony parts in a tiny apartment in the middle of Paris (That's The Way), or sitting at home, picking up a ukulele and a song just falling into my lap so easily it's as if someone else had written it (Hey My Love). Each song has it's own story and that’s what I love about this album.”