Submarines (CD)

Here Comes Everybody’s first concept album, and perhaps the most progressive project they’ve ever done, Submarines is an album with a through narrative, a cast of characters, a story of the existential search for wholeness and meaningful human connection. Though highly metaphorical, the songs in this cycle were inspired initially by autobiographical events. But they became somewhat intimately intwined with a number of paintings created by a friend of the band, Curtis Settino, and then, strangely enough, the music written would continue to influence Michael’s work as a fiction writer; a novella, as of yet unpublished, called Submarine Stories emerged years later. This is a serious record—not in a pretentious way—only in that the songs, unusual in the HCE catalogue, while they might make you sing or think and certainly tap your toes, will not make you laugh.