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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

Ma Benz Acoustique (Brigitte Cover)

Taken from our album VOICES, out now: http://smarturl.it/PhantogramVoicesiT

Voices

Fall In Love

Curs in the Weeds by Horse Feathers

Say anything - Tristan Prettyman

Recorded live on Public Address Radio in Auckland, New Zealand. http://publicaddress.net/radio

Tiny Ruins 'Little Notes' (Live on PA Radio)

Holes

A Singer of Songs lives in Barcelona while Tiny Ruins is from New Zealand. The two knew each other through their music, but had not met. This all changed in 2010, when they embarked on a small and noble tour of northern Spain. One hospital visit, one birthday cake, several piggy-back rides, a couple of tequilas and thousands of wrong turns later, and they’d recorded six songs during one week, in the room of a charming old apartment in Barcelona.

The result was the lovely EP 'Little Notes', which this track is taken from.

You can listen to / download / find out more over on HI54LOFI RECORDS: http://hi54lofirecords.com/littlenotes

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Feathers (Tiny Ruins & A Singer of Songs)

I love Jaymay and 'Gray or Blue' is such a gem. Jaymay introduced this song in a performance I saw in YouTube as "...a story of loving somebody who doesn't love you. But you're both pretending you love someone else anyway." So, uhm, yeah. :)

This is my first ever solo cover song. Uhm, I prefer singing back-up or just writing songs, but I thought I'd give it a shot. One of my best friends, Dax helped me with some parts of the song (Crazy eyes have you...).

Gray or Blue (cover)

Lily of the Valley

We Only Attack Ourselves

Luv I Like (Tiny Ruins Bootleg)

Tiny Ruins Wine Cellar Part 1

Tiny Ruins Wine Cellar Part 2

Blackmill - Fortune Soul

A little Tiny Ruins cover for my pals who couldn't see them at Lindale, crap guitar

Daughter - Youth

Artist: Tiny Ruins
Song: Priest With Balloons

Tiny Ruins - Priest With Balloons

Tiny Ruins Live // Somewhere In Munich
Feathers feat. Hauskonzerte Gang

Tiny Ruins - Feathers Live // Somewhere In Munich

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Tiny Ruins - Priest With Balloons

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