The Essex Green is a band based in Brooklyn, NY. For their most recent album, Cannibal Sea, the band's three principal songwriters, Chris Ziter, Sasha Bell and Jeff Baron, have assembled a collection of songs that speak to themes of travel, exploration, wanderlust and the desire for quiet niches amid the pressures of big city living. Like the protagonists in the opening lines of "Don't Know Why (You Stay)" who are "Stepping along the hum of the sidewalk / A marionette, a slave / Your legs are wood and tied to the city / Who has final say?", the characters from the songs on Cannibal Sea display a yearning to break free of the boundaries and constrictions of city life. To escape the darkness and fatigue, to move on to more lighthearted settings surrounded by water, replete with the spray of the sea, the gentle lift and sway of a boat on the waves.

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Guppyboy Jeffersonville [Sudden Shame] 1997
The Sixth Great Lake Up The Country [Kindercore] 2001
The Essex Green Everything is Green [Kindercore] 1999
The Essex Green Self-titled E.P. [Elephant 6 Recording Co.] 2000
The Essex Green The Long Goodbye [Merge] April 8, 2003
The Essex Green Cannibal Sea [Merge] March 21, 2006