Even As We Speak’s sole 1990s album, Feral Pop Frenzy, offered listeners 17 tracks to enjoy and comprised a large number of new songs intermingled with a handful of previously issued ones, such as Beautiful Day. Anybody Anyway was first issued as part of a 1990 EP called Outgrown This Town, which was the band’s final release on an Australian label before they started distributing their releases through Bristol’s own Sarah Records. On the EP, this short and sweet tale of an isolated fraud seemed to have been constructed as another example of the band’s tendency to find itself behind the tempo of their tunes. However, when they resurrected it for the album, they threw out the electric guitar and hesitant drum, replacing it instead with acoustic guitars and banjos. Taking these together with a slower tempo helped to bring out the slow-waltz feel that the first take, which may have been a demo version promoted before it was ready, aspired to but failed to nail down.
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