We want you for Indie Sessions club festival (www.indiesessions.cz) at Ostrava - Czech Rep.! <3

just found out about them yesterday and they're playing in my city friday and it's sold out now. what timing.

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

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

From the Golden Light 12", only available from the band on tour.

09/20/13 @ Exit In - Nashville, TN
09/21/13 @ 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA
09/22/13 @ Music Farm - Charleston, SC
09/24/13 @ Grand Central - Miami, FL
09/25/13 @ The Social - Orlando, FL
09/26/13 @ Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL
09/27/13 @ Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
09/28/13 @ Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA
10/11/13 @ Emo's - Austin, TX
10/12/13 @ Tree's - Dallas, TX
10/14/13 @ Gothic Theater - Denver, CO
10/16/13 @ Knitting Factory - Boise, ID
10/17/13 @ Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR
10/18/13 @ Wow Hall - Eugene, OR
10/20/13 @ Treasure Island Music Festival - San Francisco, CA
10/22/13 @ Avalon - Hollywood, CA @ *
10/23/13  @ The Glass House - Pomona, CA *
 
* w/ Chrome Sparks 

STRFKR - Golden Light (Skeletron Mix)

Gardens & Villa 'Dunes' available now on CD/ LP/ Digital on Secretly Canadian.

Get Dunes at:
SC Distribution: smarturl.it/gardensvilla_scd
iTunes: smarturl.it/gardensvilla_itunes
Amazon: smarturl.it/gardensvilla_amazon
Your local record store: smarturl.it/gardensvilla_indies

Gardens & Villa
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secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=gardensvilla
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Bullet Train

Gardens & Villa - Bullet Train

Futuristic Casket

"Boys Life" from Best Blues out October 16, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

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"Boys Life" from Best Blues out October 16, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Best Blues

Boys Life

Small Black - "Boys Life"

Download "Haunted By You":  http://smarturl.it/TheChaseDownload

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- Lyrics -

Pensive and quiet
Like forever was
In a chrysalis, she waits for us
And she takes from us
Oh sweet life, why give and take from us?
It's all for you
It's all for truth

Feels like I'm holding you down
But you won't leave me alone
And you're holding me now
But I'm so far away from you

There's no home
No home like the one I found in you
Now you're running away
Oh to feel like a child again...

And the song he sings, he brings to life for you
It's all for you
It's all for you...

And the words he places on the page just can't admit
This song's for you
This song's for you...

Feels like you're holding me down
But I can't leave you alone
And I'm holding you now
But you're so far and lost to me

There's no home
No home like the one I found in you
Now I'm running away
And I feel like a child again
Oh to feel like a child again...

And I'm haunted by you
I'm haunted by you

Every song I sing, it brings me back to you
I'm haunted by you
I'm haunted by you
I'm haunted by you...


Haunted By You

The Reflection Of You.
Taken from our 3rd album "I Love You, It's Cool" due for release on April 3rd 2012 through Dead Oceans / Hometapes

Future Islands - Inch Of Dust

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