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

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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

You faggots be pushing and begging for money for what you believe in but some ov us dont
fuck all of you, im coming to you, you talk about jesus i cut up his throat
Open your eyes and look at the sky, see nothing in mine, now is the time
ill kill all your gods, and those you believe in, fuck your religion that shit is a joke

Lot of these rappers be acting satanic but all you know that none of you are
gram on the ground, lay in the middle say the words above to the star
lucifers wymm, im taking him in, killing the twelve and raking their chins
you talk all that shit, but im a free thinker, scratch at my wounds, flagellation scars

crafting my halo from perditions clay
harken dogs they roam and prey
jouija board that shit is gay
i only sin i get away

messe noire, exhaust my thrown above him and claim my realm
open the gates to heaven, raid them, smite them, as the hell bell sounds

i will rise, were realest we satanists

satanic motherfucker i am, the goatchrist shall prevail
im taking the bodies down to my cellar, after the sacrifice i dump in the well
blessed are destroyers, believing the myths from a book they try to sell
prayers are to men as dolls are to children, and demons to hell ass angels to heaven
prophets ov god be writing the scrolls, but i rape the seals and burning all seven
Break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly succession
i pray to satan, the one sinner that needed it most obsession
do unto others as they do unto you, fuck everybody, and their religion to

FUCK YOUR RELIGION

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

FUCK YOUR RELIGION

HABXRYM

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