It’s about damn time. As 2006 melted into ’07, North Elementary and producer
Alan Weatherhead (Hotel Lights, Sparklehorse) were busy patching together a
record weekend-by-weekend at Weatherhead’s Richmond, Va. studio. The
result, Not For Everyone, Just For You, is the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based North
Elementary’s most complete artifact yet. And for two years, it collected dust.
The band recorded and released a whole separate album, 2007’s
Berandals (Pox World Empire) after finishing NFEJFY. False starts and missed
connections plagued the record, putting the release date farther and farther
into a nebulous “eventually.”
North Elementary : Decade Stylin’ [mp3]
North Elementary : Golden Tigers [mp3]
“Excellent, lovely, and highly recommended.” – David Menconi, contributing writer to Spin, No Depression, Billboard Magazine
“Someone to show us the possibilities, not the constraints of the genre. One such band is North Elementary.” – Americana UK