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

Lyrics:
Tearing apart the cracks in your mind
A light keeper’s song in the tide
A man on a screen performs the obscene 
Edges are coming undone
Pulled along

Waking alone
Sightless, unseen
Your hollow inside
Stuffed like a straw man
Hiding his eyes at the edge of the world
From what the inferno will bring

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Always around in the air that we breath 
Choked by the sands
When will the rains come?
Flooding the stage at the edge of the world 
Blood in the eyes of a king
Waking alone at your hour of need
Pray to a stone your stuffed like a straw man 
Hiding his eyes as the hour arrives
Shedding your crow-skin disguise

Empty inner vision
Drowning the song in the tide 
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me?

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Wasteland (single edit)

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Little Racer - Vanessa

New Funk fusion/ Psychedelic Experimental track 

rhythm guitar/Acoustic Guitar/Lead Acoustic
Electric Piano/ Synths/Other keyboards/ Effects 
Bass/Drum programming 

All instruments played and written By Brandon Larratt
Produced By Brandon Larratt

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Vinyl, streaming, download, etc. at smarturl.it/absent-forever

Absent Forever is the newest album from London-based producer Plastic Flowers - his third full-length LP and the second for The Native Sound after Heavenly. Plastic Flowers formed vaguely around 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece and play a noisy version of Dream Pop filed under Shoegaze, Ambient and Indie. Much like his previous releases on labels such as Crash Symbols, Inner Ear Records or Bad Panda, this new album artfully slips intelligence and experimentation into a dying art form.

Recordings were completed in less than three months in 2017 and the album comprises of ten tracks that have been around George’s hard drive in demo form since early 2013. For this record Plastic Flowers recorded himself onto tape in different DIY spaces around London, including a friend’s old house in Hampstead and his small home studio. While dealing with massive academic workload and stress for his PhD, he managed to completely reshape Plastic Flowers’ sound with a new record that captures the analog aesthetics and the warm sound of the tape. As part of the creative process, he collaborated with a string quartet and his ex bandmate Angelos who assisted in the recordings.

Absent Forever finds Plastic Flowers hopeful and heavy, a new direction for those familiar with his music. It still possess the pensive and melancholy undertones taken of Heavenly, but they take different forms and themes. There are different ways to find growth and constructiveness through the times and situations that are labelled as negative, but through this album Samaras explores themes of personal flaws and downfalls that changed his life and helped him complete Absent Forever.

Absent Forever is out November 10th on vinyl and digitally via The Native Sound.

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Plastic Flowers – How Can I

I see the sun rise
It makes you smile
You dream of freedom but you've been dying for a while
Purple curtains cover eyes
No need to ever go outside
Nothing ever changes here
Except the times that disappear
Synthetic memories
That we can keep
Synthetic lips that
Kiss you to sleep
Synthetic memories
That we can keep
Synthetic lips that
Kiss you to sleep
You hold the bath tub
Your stomach opens
The sunlight falls out as it sets into the ocean
Purple curtains cover eyes
No need to ever go outside
Nothing ever changes here
Except the times that disappear
Synthetic memories
That we can't keep
Synthetic lips that
Kiss you to sleep
Synthetic memories
That we can't keep
Synthetic lips that
Kiss you to sleep
I see the moon stay
Still for hours
You're stuck daydreaming, decomposing in the flowers
Purple curtains cover eyes
Don't need to ever go outside
Nothing ever changes here
Except the times that disappear
Synthetic memories
That we can keep
Synthetic lips that
Kiss you to sleep
Synthetic memories
That we can keep
Synthetic lips that
Kiss you to sleep

Synthetic Memories

"Had To Stray," the third single off of Pyshcic Shakes' new EP out September 25th ~ smarturl.it/psychic-shakes

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Psychic Shakes - "Had To Stray"

Taken from the upcoming album, 'Atopia'.

Music produced and mixed by Thomas Savage with additional mixing by David Pye. Mastering by Eric James at Philosophers barn.

Absentee

Hi my name is Brandon Larratt,im songwriter(guitarist/bassist/keyboardist) and producer from Henderson Nv. In short,i make warm and inviting music everything from rock/indie/ funk/ R&b and fusion music.

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