Written and Produced by Phil Danyew
Drums by Mark Pontius
Mixed by Carlos de la Garza
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters

Caught In A Twilight (lyrics)
Ooo you got me where you wanted
Ooo you’d think I’d lost my mind
Ooo the sun is where you left it
Now down is up and black is white
I don’t know what you’ve been told
But you’ve been sucking poison
From the lip of highball glass

Talking heads
Trying to make out of here
With my consciousness
Take my tongue and disappear
I’m not smiling cause it feels like I’m
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight zone

The masses become moonstruck
Turned rabid from the lies
Crooked pigs running amok
A giant spiral fills the sky
Maybe I hit my head too hard
Or maybe not hard enough
I got the feeling the stars will still be spinning when I wake up

Talking heads
Trying to make out of here
With my consciousness
Take my tongue and disappear
I’m not smiling cause it feels like I’m
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight
Caught in a twilight zone 

Oh we find the cure in love
Look past your mirror
Learn to listen
Face the fear
The truth may look different
Truth may look different

Caught In A Twilight Zone

Elephant Castle - the retro-inspired indie rock project from Los Angeles-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Phil Danyew, formed in late 2019. The first single, “Cool To Be Unhappy,” was released on March 27, 2020 with warm welcome. A fresh take on the break-up ballad, Rolling Stone called the track a "roll-around-in-your-underwear-while-the-sun-seeps-through-the-window song.”

Elephant Castle released four subsequent singles with enthusiastic buzz, and is now back for their first release of 2021. Swirling with frenetic energy against a backdrop of lofty vocals and hypnotic organ, “In Circles” tackles the ordinary yet complex struggle to embrace who you really are. 

Raised in Oceanside, CA, Danyew has been writing and recording music since age 12 after stealing his father’s tape recorder. Growing up listening to 50s and 60s oldies, Elephant Castle is a response to these early influences combined with a love for vintage synths, layered vocals, the dreamy sounds of tape saturation and analog gear.

Danyew spent six years as a touring member of the band Foster the People. He left at the beginning of 2020 to pursue his own music.