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Elephant  - Elusive Youth

Loom - Yosoko (Radio Edit)

Taken from the ‘HAND PRINTS’ EP, Out now
Available on iTunes here: smarturl.it/aeahpitunessc

As Elephants Are follow last October’s release of the “Crystal” single (BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe ‘Next Hype’), with the brand new 4-track “Hand Prints” EP.

With past releases being described as everything from “sinister” (This Is Fake DIY), to “Life affirming” and “Magical” (the 405) to “Wonderfully dreamy” (Time Out London), EP title track ‘Hand Prints’ develops further the band’s ability to write nagging melodies wrapped in barbed wire rhythms. EP title track “Hand Prints” has already racked up over 25,000 plays on Soundcloud and plays on BBC Radio 1 from Huw Stephens and Jen & Ally as well as playlists on XFM and Amazing Radio. EP track “Went Wrong” has also given the band its first US radio play courtesy of KCRW.

On the live front, 2013 saw As Elephants Are play their debut slot at the Reading and Leeds Festival on the BBC Introducing Stage as well as appearing at Bushstock and Southsea Festival and supporting Half Moon Run. On 31st March 2014 the band completed their first headline UK Tour. The 10-date tour culminated in the band’s first proper London headline show at The Sebright Arms on 31st March. A Summer of festival appearances now beckons with the following shows already announced and more to follow:

3rd May	Canterbury, Sound City Project (w/Saint Raymond, Pixel Fix)
4th May	Stockton, Sunday Live (w/Wolf Alice, Circa Waves)
8th May	Brighton, The Prince Albert (w/New Desert Blues)
24th May	Barcelona, Spain, Razzmatazz
12th June	London, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, New Blood Festival (w/Young Kato)
13th June	London, Club NME @ Koko
20th June Camden Crawl @ Camden Eye, London
21st June	Lainfest
18th July	Bristol, Birdcage
19th July	TRUCK Festival
25th July   Secret Garden Party
25th July	REDFEST

As Elephants Are - Souls

Taken from the latest EP SHIVER

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Dark Dive

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Razorblades

First single from Fight Like Apes self titled third album.

Pretty Keen On Centerfolds

Music from The Comedy, A Film by Rick Alverson

Over The Ocean

How Dare You

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How Dare You

Skyt

From the Melody's Echo Chamber Crystallized 7" 

Melody's Echo Chamber - Endless Shore

Haltija

Sky Swimming

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Elephant - Skyscraper

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 2013 (LP/CD/digital.) 

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www.paradiseofbachelors.com/steve-gunn

In the city we’re all angling for Quittin’ Time, laboring along and among the hours, searching and scheming for the sweet sound of those two easy words: Time Off. It’s something you take—or sometimes steal, like a thief or a baserunner—but seems you can never get enough of it. It’s regulated, rationed, and billed by volume, like water or electricity or ice cream. Sometimes you have to beg the boss for more, or even for a trifling taste. So let’s make time! Let’s roll the dice and get these old bones out on the road again. 

Steve Gunn’s new album imagines the fugitive moments afforded us during time off, out, and away as occasions for dilatory investigations into our immediate environments and interiors. Time Off (PoB-08) showcases the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter’s oblique character sketches and story-songs, some of which, like “Lurker” and “Street Keeper,” portray specific denizens of his Brooklyn neighborhood. “Old Strange” celebrates Jack Rose, a dear and departed friend and muse. 
Those contemplative studies frame Gunn’s most affecting, accessible and articulate work of pure songcraft to date. His definitive statement as a songwriter, Time Off represents the culmination of nearly fifteen years of stylistic experimentation as a solo artist, a member of GHQ and the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and more recently, as a guitarist in fellow Philadelphia-bred troubadour Kurt Vile’s touring band the Violators. 
Gunn’s first eponymous album with a full band, Time Off harnesses a core trio format to launch his compositions into new, luminous strata; the songs have evolved through disciplined trio interplay with longtime collaborator John Truscinski on drums and Justin Tripp (formerly of Aspera and Favourite Sons) on bass and guitar. Helena Espvall (Espers) also guests on cello. Steve’s keen baritone voice features more prominently than ever before on these tunes, each of which feels both more rigorous and expansive than previous efforts. 

Here, Gunn the guitarist masterfully deploys the discursive, deconstructed blues style, at once transcendent and methodical, that has become his signature. Close listening reveals the influence of Delta and Piedmont country blues, ecstatic free jazz, and psych, as well as Gnawa and Carnatic music, on the continually unfolding compositions. The fresh emphasis on narrative, characters in counterpoint, and those heavy-duty vocals likewise recall the finest work of Steve’s friend and sometime touring partner, Michael Chapman.
Building on his established penchant for charting musical travelogues that ramble through city and wilderness alike, these dispatches about home are not merely descriptive but corporeal. Gunn’s evocative writing and ductile instrumental phrasing, buttressed by the band’s intuitive playing, carries the listener along bodily for the “Trailways Ramble.” It’s a real collection of foot-tappers and head-nodders, perfect for summer sessions. 

The album opens with the sublime, meditative “Water Wheel”—a paean to “the water wheel’s constant turn/open views and days to burn”—and indeed Time Off sounds as if Steve has swum full circle to reach the headwaters of his musical practice. This is Gunn at the top of his game, utterly unique but steeped in traditions both vernacular and avant-garde. Jump in. 

•	Steve Gunn’s first album with a band, featuring John Truscinski and Justin Tripp
•	His most affecting, accessible, and articulate work of pure songcraft to date, with a new emphasis on vocals
•	Available on virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats
•	Vinyl edition features matte, tip-on jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and digital download coupon
•	CD housed in heavy 20 pt matte gatefold wallet
•	Package features artwork by Anthony Campuzano, Constance Mensh, and Justin Tripp

Time Off

Steve Gunn - Time Off: "Lurker" (2013, PoB-08)

Alabama Shakes - Be Mine - Jools Holland Live 2012 

"Be Mine" - Alabama Shakes (Live)

UK tour in February. Get Tickets: http://smarturl.it/theorwellslive
Get 'Other Voices' EP for free: http://theorwells.com/othervoices

Other Voices EP

Mallrats (Audiotree Live Session)

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Crown EP out 8th December 2014

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Hand Prints EP out now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/aeahpitunessc

As Elephants Are are Ben (vocals / guitar), Harry (bass), Joe (guitar) and Rob (drums).

UK Tour:
OCTOBER
20th Coventy, Kasbah
21st Middlesbrough, The Keys
23rd St Albans, The Horn
27th Southampton, Joiners
28th Exeter, The Cavern
29th Guildford, The Boileroom
30th London, The Barfly
31st Liverpool, Masque

NOVEMBER
1st Cardiff, Buffalo
3rd Leeds, Nation of Shopkeepers
4th Hull, Fruit
6th Leicester, Cookie Jar
8th Reading, Oakford Social


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