inhighlight · playlist · september 2013

nights go undisturbed
abuse in my lungs
I'm okay with it
if you're okay

help me out,
get me out

like a flame you hurt
abuse in my lungs
I'm okay with it
if you're okay


Music by Times Beach / Words by Steven Anthony

Stale DEMO - TimesBeach

Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck don't just sing about feverish, frayed and  fractured romances – in the three years since forming  Elephant, they've been living one.

Their first recordings, recorded in the strung out early mornings after the night before, were delirious and light-headed. Rivas’ stream of conscious lyricism combined with Pinchbeck’s innate melodic nous to create vignettes of delight and wonder.  A debut single followed, 2011’s woozy Ants, followed by the Assembly EP.   But before they had a chance to capitalise on the growing acclaim around them the duo’s relationship broke down, almost to the point of no return.

That seemed to be Elephant’s graveyard.  Yet an unexpected rapprochement in late 2012, and a renewed musical hunger saw Rivas and Pinchbeck reconcile.  The first fruit was this year’s gauzy single Skyscraper, which announced their return in spectacular fashion, with Rivas’ swooping vocals allied to a spectral chorus creating an eerie, lens-flared 3 minute wonder of song.

Now, new release Shapeshifter provides confirmation that Elephant are truly back as a force to be reckoned with. “I flew to the moon to mirror you and I saw the future” sings Rivas, with a raw melancholy and nostalgic longing. A sumptuous missive of love lost and lessons learned, that sparkles with charm, optimism, and the sort of lush swoonsome string arrangements that reach into your chest and wring your heart dry. 

Backed by the sparse and stretched out Snowday, as icily cool as it sounds, full of chiaroscuro contrasts and flickering atmospherics, it’s a release that suggests their debut album is set to be one of the standout albums of 2014.

ELEPHANT LINKS: 
 
Facebook - www.facebook.com/elephanttheband    
Twitter – www.twitter.com/ElephantTwit  
Label -  www.memphis-industries.com


Elephant - Shapeshifter

Written by (Music): Julia Kwamya 
Written by (Lyrics): Julia Kwamya
Engineered and mixed by: Kurt Feldman at Winter Station (Brooklyn, NY)
Kurt Feldman - MIDI programming and arrangement, guitar
Mastered by: Mike Fossenkemper at Turtle Tones Studio

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Scenic's 'Shockwaves' EP is out today on Future Classic worldwide. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/scenic_ep

@scenic

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Scenic - Hours On End

Coast To Coast

New album 'Shulamith' out now on Mom+Pop (US), Memphis Industries (UK), and Inertia (Aus). Purchase now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/shulamithitunes

www.thisispolica.com
www.facebook.com/thisispolica
www.twitter.com/thisispolica

Shulamith

Smug

New glittering sounds for my lovely people all around the world!
Thanks for everything and keep my dreams still being so real!

— Sun Glitters

On My Way

The Lake

Overflow Remixes is a 4-track EP collecting the best songs from Overflow, Platonick Dive second full-length release, reworked by an international lineup: Sun Glitters, Vessels, Monokle and the Italian band YOUAREHERE.
“We really like to give new soul to our tracks, making them more fluid and more electronic. Giving new life to songs is something that fascinates and intrigues”. 

Platonick Dive - From Seattle To Berlin (Sun Glitters Remix)

This song was written and produced in support of the fight against Cancer. Inspired by a friend who is battling this illness, all proceeds from this track will go to Cancer Research and Cancer Support.  Please support and buy this track with link above.

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