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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.

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Elephant - Shapeshifter

The first track off our debut album "Whisper Down the Lane".  It was written on a bicycle.

Throw Me Down

Alice Boman - Be Mine

Ezra Furman - Restless Year

Ezra Furman - Lousy Connection

After "Theater Island," last year's 6-track EP, Sóley returns with her first full-length, an album full of rhythmic makeshift creatures, of handclaps hidden in the undergrowth, tempting us to join in. The 13 tracks are sometimes incredibly catchy; amazingly quirky at other times: think cardigan-folk from the northern hemisphere, an ocean of stained glasses bopping up and down in the shared apartment's dishwater, leeward in limbo. The result is refreshing in its lack of edginess; think Joanna Newsom minus her harp, or the Casady sisters circa 2004, but then clearly better trained, less crooked. In other words: her voice, those loops moving around like wooden toys, and finally the piano – that's the backbone, the essence of her compositions; at least until some unexpected element appears elsewhere, a rhythmic creaking or the lack thereof, like a hidden Rube Goldberg machine, setting off yet another component, thus paving the way across the threshold and on into the next realm of sound. And thus we keep on sinking, deeper and deeper, until we stand on terra firma once again, realizing that somehow, next to us, above us, around us, a beat is laid out, hesitantly moving along at first, then careering… 

Sóley: I'll Drown

Ezra Furman - I Can Change (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

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The first single taken from Teleman's new album Brilliant Sanity, due for release on 8th April. Pre-order the album now to get an instant download of this track at http://www.telemanmusic.com

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Brilliant Sanity

Teleman - Dusseldorf

'Big Fugitive Life' will be released 19th August 2016 via Bella Union.

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Big Fugitive Life

Ezra Furman - Teddy I'm Ready

Taken from the upcoming 2017 album 'Trials & Truths', available now for pre-order via Bella Union...

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Horse Thief - Another Youth

Taken from the upcoming album "Calm Down". Order here: http://www.smarturl.it/ARIROAR_CALMDOWN

Calm Down

Ari Roar - Implode

Cape Weather - Orchestration

Wild Nothing - Shadow

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Laura Veirs - Sun Song

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Ezra Furman - I Can Change (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

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