Genre: Hard Rock, Hip-Hop/Rap, Other
Members: Adam LaClave (vocals), Paul Meany (keyboards, vocals), Dave Rumsey (guitars), Roy Mitchell (bass), David Hutchison (drums)
For fans of: Beck, dc Talk, UB40, 311, Steely Dan, Fishbone, Rage Against the Machine, Reality Check
Label: Sparrow Records

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"Christianity's role in modern society should be like a lighthouse. But too often the church has come across as judgmental, more like a courthouse. Our real calling is just to be salt and light, to show the world the truth. As a band, that's what we want to be about—just jumping right into the middle of everything and shining the light of truth where the world can see it." —Adam LaClave, Earthsuit

Most artists would like to believe that their music can't really be described. Somehow the notion of other people being able to sum up their musical style in one or two words flies in the face of an artist's sense of originality. "It's not like anything else," they say, "You just have to hear it." Of course when you finally do hear it, you usually discover that you can sum it up in one or two words after all. (And more often than not those two words are 'alternative pop', but we won't go there right now.) Once in a while though, something else happens. Once in a while you run across a band who seem genuinely at a loss to categorize their music. In fact, they seem almost desperate to find that one or two word handle that would allow them to respond to the question quickly and so avoid the frustration of perpetually trying to name something that has heretofore eluded them. In such cases, when you finally hear the music, you immediately understand. It's not as if they're claiming to have single-handedly invented the automobile, it's just that their particular car was pieced together in their own garage from so many spare parts that they don't know whether to give credit to Ford, Chevy, Volvo or Mercedes.

"There's definitely a strong rock undercurrent, a little reggae flavor, certain jazz progressions, patches of rap, and some of the New Orleans influence mixed in as well as some samples and programming," says Adam LaClave, vocalist for Sparrow Records' unconventional new signing, Earthsuit. "One person tells us we sound like Generic Rhyme Nuts and the next person tells us we sound like the Police. To us, it's just a question of whatever elements seem right at the time for a given song."

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