Name: Wild Nothing // Paradise by capturedtracks in indie ♥
Duration: 5 min 31 s
Description: 'Nocturne' will be out August 28th in North America on Captured Tracks.

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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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Twitter – www.twitter.com/ElephantTwit  
Label -  www.memphis-industries.com


Elephant - Shapeshifter

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Yumi Zouma & Cascine unveil a deluxe 12" that bundles both of the band's celebrated EPs together on one record, along with a previously unreleased outtake and their popular cover of Air France's "It Feels Good To Be Around You". Side A of the record features EP I, the outtake and AF cover. Side B features EP II. Original pressings of both EPs are sold out.

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Working under the name Craft Spells, Stockton, Calif.'s Justin Vallesteros makes music for bedsitters who dream about being social. Though often addressed to a love interest either real or imagined, Idle Labor is above all a lonely album that rarely betrays its origin as a solo project. Sonically it recalls Wild Nothing it the way it mines a large swath of 1980s synth pop, but its clear emotional tenor gives it a distinguishing perspective and personality.
Idle Labor exists in a time frame best described by the title of its ebullient centerpiece-- "After the Moment". These are sketches of romantic problems and solutions with the wounds still fresh and the thoughts uncensored. Taken as a whole, it could be read as a narrative following Vallesteros from heartbreak to infatuation and back, a few months' worth of romantic uncertainty boiled down to a taut and hooky album.
In a maundering yearn somewhere between Jens Lekman and Ian Curtis, Vallesteros introduces himself as a lovelorn melodramatist over sunstroked, near-Balearic pop. But as the narrative begins to hint at physical contact, the music works in lockstep, and Vallestreros builds tracks more as a dance producer than a singer-songwriter. And that's where he hits his stride-- while his vocals remain a central fixture, the post-punk mordancy is softened by locomotive arrangements that stack synth pads, ringing guitar, and primitive drum programming.
"Party Talk" starts a mid-album mini-suite with Vallesteros as a nebbishy Woody Allen character trying to decode a mutual romantic connection from casual conversation. But he leaps forward during the upbeat "From the Morning Heat", and by the fantastic morning-after celebration "After the Moment", something has apparently clicked; Vallesteros repeats the chorus as if he knows it's the best he's written.
The emotional high is predictably short-lived, and even within its brief half-hour runtime, more than a few of the melodies take detours and left turns. "The Fog Rose High" has the feel of a gothier Beach Fossils, while the anodyne dream-pop scruff of "You Should Close the Door" could have been a Radio Dept. B-side. But as with so many bedroom auteurs' debuts, it's tough to separate the creation from the creator, and Idle Labor shows the promise of a precocious songwriter who isn't claiming to have anything totally figured out just yet.

Craft Spells -  After the Moment

From TOPS' LP "Picture You Staring" 
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Released September 2nd

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outside, you don't know why
tell each other in the middle of the night
talk about it like you really want to know 
what she running around for?

rat-tat the door unlatch
someone here to take you back
outside in the middle of the street
are you getting what you need?

thoughts of you 
running through my mind
open door but it doesn't feel right 
you look at me as if you know what it's like 
in the shadows of the streetlight

now i know 
I can't go back
you're with her and she doesn't deserve that
but when I look into your eyes
you see something I'm trying to hide 

thoughts of you 
running through my mind
open door but it doesn't feel right 
you look at me as if you know what it's like 
in the shadows of the streetlight
shadow, why's it a shame for me to love?

Picture You Staring

Outside

TOPS "Outside"

Franchise EP 

Photo adapted and used under Creative Commons 
Photographer Matthew Anderson https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcameasarat

Chihiro - YOUTHCULT

this is the second track from the 10th Trey Xanthean Album: Blood, Soil, Love and the softer side of Hate. (c)1988-2024 By Christ Records Member ASCAP. All Rights Reserved. Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by; Trey Xanthean. Used By Permission of Trey Xanthean and By Christ Records, Members ASCAP. Unauthorized Use is a Violation of ALL National and International Copyright Laws. Recorded using; Schecter Banshee Mach 7 FR-S, Schecter C7 MS SLS Elite Multi Scale, ML Sound Lab Amped Icon and ML800, Yamaha Bases, Amplitube 4, Lexicon Reverb, Sennheiser Mics, Alesis Command Mesh kit with ML Drums Pro Kits and cymbals via Midi, Isotope Effects. Recorded and Mastered on Studio One 5 Artist, Augmented using LANDR Mastering. Please Enjoy!!

Blood, Soil, Love and the softer side of Hate

The Seven Winds

02. Trey Xanthean - The Seven Winds - LANDR - O-M

Washed Out - All Over Now

Photos adapted and used under Creative Commons. flic.kr/p/mFH72M 
Photographer Thomas Abbs.

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