Artist: Elephant
Single: Shapeshifter
Release Date: 11 November 2013
Format: 7” and digital
Cat no: MI0284S
Label: Memphis Industries

www.thisiselephant.com
www.memphis-industries.com

A.	Shapeshifter 
B.	Snow Day

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 - Snowday

I'm Ready

https://open.spotify.com/track/2IXonj3CPO4EMC57GauJ6I?si=a0e7b8d8c10045dc

@a_tri
@a_tri
@a_tri

neighbot 🐴🤖 (prod. atri)

@lavenderheartss
@lavenderheartss
@lavenderheartss

123456789X (prod. lavender)

IT'S YOUR BOY KASH KRABS HERE JUST LETTING YALL KNOW I JUST SIGNED SAUCEWARD IN A 360 DEAL! HE GOT MAD POTENTIAL AND IMMA MAKE SURE IT GETS OUT THERE EVEN IF HE'S NOT GETTING PAID IN THE SLIGHTEST. WE NOW RUNNING KASH KRABS RECORDS!

SAUCEWARD - CLARINET [prod. oddwin]

YOU ALREADY KNOW ME AND SQUID BEEN DOING OUR THING BUT WE HAD TO BRING MY BOY SPONGEGUAP OUT OF THE KITCHEN AND INTO THE BOOTH TO LET YALL KNOW WHO REALLY RUN THIS!

(krabs & squid voice by @oddwin)
(spongebob voice by @qulan)

KASH KRABS X SAUCEWARD X SPONGEGUAP - ME MILLIONTH DOLLAR [prod. OmarCameUp]

aventedoorrrrrr (kashkrabsdisstrack)ft. lavender, oddwin, & lil cookie monster (prod. lavender)

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/6SnUfpYfpmXgetPHU055vn?si=cf6dc471498d4137

Bando

Shout out to Yung Ghul for letting me hop on the remix
I don't even care about climate change,this beats just fye

Yung Ghul x Chief Akosa-Climate Change is a Bitch Remix (Prod.heavenly)

LYRICS
skeggold 
sklamold
skildir ro klofmir

bow your heads in memory for our brothers who have fallen
may they take their seat right next to Odin in Valhalla
in the midst of battle watch our foes bodies falling
raise your hand and shield and hear our ancestors calling

going down in history is something that i want to be
beheading all the traitors who defy us, hang them on a tree
only god himself can tell you all the horrors i have seen
place the crown upon my head and throne me as the rightful king

as im fighting through the horde, the blood splattering on my face

i burn your village, and your people and your family without a trace
you hear our drums and hear our chants, fearful as you lie in wake
as we move to other towns, blood spilling yet another day
driving us to that great place, we leave the world in right dismay

we're like a swarm of locust coming through your land, do as we may
watching all the peasents walk on roads, wander like a stray

the killing that ive done, it scars my body, something so profound
the stench of rotting corpses fills my nose, burried in the ground


SKEGGOLD
SKLAMOLD
SKILDIR RO KLOFMIR (x4)

Axe, Sword, Shield (Prod. K4STET)

HABXRYM

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