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

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Little Racer - Vanessa

This is the last track on from my new EP which is out now.

Available now via iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BeautifulWordsiTunes
Available now via the Wichita webstore – http://smarturl.it/oscarBWEP

Mojo "chocolatey rich baritone...jangly guitar-pop redemption"
NME - 8/10 - "a sublte layer of melancholy...rich in melodies... just you try to forget him"
DIY "Oscar's take on pop is anything but nostalgic"

See me live:
18th July - Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK
22nd July - Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
23rd July - Lucky Number 10th Birthday Party, Village Underground, London, UK
8th August - Visions Festival, London, UK
22nd August - Obstwiesen Festival, Dornstadt, Germany
4th Sept - End Of The Road Festival, Salisbury, UK
26th Sept - Independent Night, various venues, Berlin, Germany


Beautiful Words

Oscar - Stay

Right Now is written by Annelotte De Graaf 

Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering, Brooklyn, NYC

All songs recorded and mixed at Strange Weather Recording Studio and Figure 8 Recording, Brooklyn, NYC

Guitars by Shane Butler
Bass by Keven Lareau
Drums by Jackson Pollis

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman
www.amberarcades.net

Management by MMM

Fading Lines

Right Now

Grace Joyner, "Maybe Sometimes in C" 
out Friday 5/20 on Hearts & Plugs, H&P021

Pre-order on CD and Cassette here:
http://bit.ly/1S69fpS

Grace Joyner - Dreams

Ancient Rolling Sea is the first single of Slow Club's forthcoming new album, which is out later this year. 

Tickets for the following shows: smarturl.it/SlowClubLive
24/05 – Coventry, UK - Warwick Arts Centre
25/05 - St Albans, UK - The Horn
26/05 - Poole, UK - Mr Kyps
27/05 – Southampton, UK - Hampshire Joiners Arms
28/05 – Bristol, UK - The Lantern, Colston Hall
30/05 – Hereford, UK – HowTheLightGetsIn2016: Philosophy & Music Festival
31/05 – Nottingham, UK - Bodega Social Club
01/06 - Ashford, UK - Revelation St Mary’s
02/06 - Brighton, UK -Komedia (Brighton)
03/06 – Margate, UK - Tom Thumb Theatre
16/07 - Salisbury, UK - Wiltshire Larmer Tree Festival
21/08 - Powys, Wales  - Green Man Festival


Slow Club - Ancient Rolling Sea

"Hopeless" appears on Psychic Twin's debut full-length album, Strange Diary, out 9/9/2016.

Pre-order Strange Diary:
Polyvinyl (LP/CD/DIGITAL): http://plyvnyl.co/strangediary
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/strange-diary
Bandcamp: http://plyvnyl.co/strange-diary-BC
Stream: http://Psychic.Twin.lnk.to/strange-diary

Psychic Twin - Hopeless

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PARTS

PARTS - Pieces

New single from Pale Honey
Out February 10, 2017 on Bolero Recordings

www.palehoney.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/517eiWMFCyIEpUXl5ycLVE
Apple Music: https://itun.es/se/3uGmhb
Contact: mail@bolerorecords.se

Why Do I Always Feel This Way

Apple Music

Pale Honey - Why Do I Always Feel This Way

Mermaid

'The Natural World' is taken from the forthcoming new album, The Age of Fracture. Pre-order the album on iTunes now - smarturl.it/ageoffractureitunes

Buy 'The Natural World' on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/the-natural-world-single/id593291502

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CYMBALS - The Natural World

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