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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

The Gaping Mouth

Nymph

Shygirl - Heaven

Runner

Television Promises

Taken from the debut album 'Ain't it Time?

Distance

Teen Daze - Along

DJ SS   Black 1995

The Lonny Breaux Collection

Sucka For Love [Prod Mansur]

B block
Red door 
Laughing so much, they be on the floor 

Knee socks
In your face 

Red glock 
Next door 
Pointing at your head, saying "you're a bore" 

We can't 
implore  
Russian bear sitting in my octagon 

And all they ever want is smoke x infinity

Red Masque coming to my fireside,  
We know that we will wither on the outside 
Beautiful, dark wax effigy 
Melting in my hands when I didn't wanna set you free 

The way you'd set yourself up was eeeeeeeeeasy
A ripened fruit made just for picking

[second voice]
You know these faces
You know these places
Fate was clear
She knocked my door 
Foreign grace, mixed with
Hesitation 
We know it's not
What we saw 

And all they ever want is smoke  x infinity

Smoke

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