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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.

ELEPHANT LINKS: 
 
Facebook - www.facebook.com/elephanttheband    
Twitter – www.twitter.com/ElephantTwit  
Label -  www.memphis-industries.com


Elephant - Shapeshifter

Debut single by School. Released December 11 on Luxury.

http://open.spotify.com/album/38CplrVjJsjfsgna03R9Xo
https://www.facebook.com/Schoolmusik

Like You EP

SoLong

School - SoLong

Grizzly Bear - Yet Again

Second mp3 single from Chastity Belt's 2015 album Time To Go Home, out 3/23/15 on Hardly Art records.

Purchase Time To Go Home:
Hardly Art: www.hardlyart.com/shop/chastitybelt.html
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-to-go-home/id951967954
Amazon: amzn.com/B00R8P1036

hardlyart.com/chastitybelt.html

Follow Chastity Belt on Twitter: twitter.com/CHAST1TYBELT
Like Chastity Belt on Facebook: www.facebook.com/chastitybeltmusic
Follow Chastity Belt on Instagram: instagram.com/chazzybelt

Follow Hardly Art on Twitter: twitter.com/hardlyart
Like Hardly Art on Facebook: facebook.com/hardlyarttrecords      
Follow Hardly Art on Instagram: instagram.com/hardlyartrecords


Time to Go Home

Joke

Chastity Belt - "Joke"

A cover of Midwife's incredible track "Vanessa". Madeline is a huge inspiration to me, and this track might be one of my favourites her and of all music generally. I hope I came close to doing it somewhat justice with this cover ♡

(cover art made badly by me in blender)

Vanessa (Midwife cover)

2nd single from the EP "Medication" (out on Oct 2, 2015).
Cover photo by Glenn  http://bit.ly/1DXEnrt

Produced by Palace Winter
Mixed and mastered by Caspar Hesselager


Buy the EP

MENTON

The new single by Cones, out November 10th via Dangerbird’s MICRODOSE series.

Later

Cones - Later

Gardens & Villa

Black Hills

Gardens and Villa - "Black Hills"

New single off the upcoming We Were Lovers album 'Pyramids'.
FREE DOWNLOAD available for a limited time.
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Islands - We Were Lovers

Django Django's spectacular Bonjour Branch debut

Written & Produced by Django Django

Sleeve designed by Tommy Grace @ the 2 group

Django Django - WOR

From Youth Lagoon's second album, "Wondrous Bughouse"

On Fat Possum worldwide. 
Buy  Fat Possum - http://fatpossum.com/products/wondrous-bughouse
Buy iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/wondrous-bughouse/id604313154

Youth Lagoon "Dropla"

Fat Possum Records

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