Poor Eve

You usually don't see too many female bands venturing into the Rock genre. This 3 female, 1 male, Rock band Poor Eve is beyond ridiculous, and I mean that in a good way. When listening to them I am immediately brought back to the 90's grunge scene, then the next second back in the modern rock era. If you listen close enough, you can even pick up on some 80's rock influences. They have the ability to draw from a vast amount of genres and mend them into their own version of Rock, which is highly respectable in my eyes. I honestly would not have expected this type of muscial geniusness to come out of smaller band like Poor Eve. If you want to venture into a new musical genre, then check out Poor Eve! Between the deep guitar rhythms, emotional lyrics and beautiful voices. Poor Eve has proven themselves as an Unsung Hero. Listen. Suport. Listen to the Unsung Heroes! - Neck Deep Media

After doing a feature on fellow Southern Maryland based band “Kitten on Capitol Hill”, I got an e-mail from Selena Benally of the band, Poor Eve. She sent me a link to the band’s page. After a quick reading, it seems that the band is based in Waldorf, MD and has members from my neck of the woods. For people that aren’t aware, I actually went out to take guitar lessons in Waldorf at this guitar shop called “Hot Licks.” Interesting enough, she worked there and we knew a lot of the same people. I don’t think we’ve met, but on the other hand, I was only frequenting the shop for about five years.

Anyway enough of the nostalgic back story, their overall sound is really all over the place. Like any band, they’re influenced and are fans of music, their taste span from going from indie/garage rock Sleater Kinney to old school gangsta rap like NWA, go figure. After repeated listens, the best way to describe their sound is to imagine your younger sibling’s rummaging around music collection while you’re out on a date and coming back early finding them blasting your CDs. In other words, it’s a feeling of “HEY! GET YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF MY SHIT AND I’M SO PROUD OF YOU!”

“Make Way!”

This is the first song on their Purevolume page and like they say, always make a big impression. “Make Way!” is an anthem-y, chugging rhythm guitar throughout rocker. The main riff kind of reminds me of Hashpipe by Weezer.

“Conversations with Land and Sea”

The dynamics throughout the song really live up to the song. Kind of sounds like a wave hitting the beach. Really, it’s kind of orchestral at some points. Like chamber music arranged for a rock band.

All and all, Poor Eve is a very melodic, kind of poppy yet very dramatic band where even though I could see some improvements that could have been made in mixing and other quirks, the general public wouldn’t notice ‘em.

For anybody into stuff like Sleater-Kinney, Jimmy Eat World or Taking Back Sunday I’d recommend giving Poor Eve a listen.



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