I JUST DISCOVERED YOU AND I LOVE YOUR VIBEEEE 🥺🌟

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

Stream 'Heartbeats' now: https://listen.niceguysrecords.com/heartbeats

Third cover "Heartbeats" is offered by American indie rock band Stray Fossa composed of Nick and Will Evans and Zach Blount. Layered over a pulsing, nocturnal beat with interspersed live guitar and bass, the vocals are a shoegaze take on Dreijer's edgy original. Fans of the superb original by The Knife and José Gonzáles' cover may hear elements of each. With their next record, shaping up to be more electronic and beat driven than the first, this project offers a little preview of what's to come.

Reprise Vol. 1

Heartbeats

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Stray Fossa - Heartbeats (The Knife)

From the album Moonshine, available July 15, 2022 on Western Vinyl

Moonshine  

Nightlands - "Stare Into the Sun"

'Dépaysement' is the sound of being somewhere far, far away from home. It hums with the shock of being suddenly alone—in a place where no one cares who you are or what you’re doing.

On their debut album, Melbourne band Foreign/National sound enlivened. Having worked tirelessly on a string of acclaimed singles since the release of their self-titled EP in 2014, the band have embraced the longer format with open arms and a healthy dose of ambition.

From the opening bars of its titular track to the haunting death-rattle of ‘22’, the album’s closer, the band weave their way through a sprawling narrative with fresh lucidity.

“I swear I used to be a confident man. What happened to the confident man?” asks frontman Mark Gage on ‘Too Sentimental’, the LP’s first single, sifting through a distant memory—or perhaps a fading fantasy— with uncompromising honesty.

On ‘Mombasa’, we hear cues from Brian Wilson and Kamuran Akkor and as always, the sound of bassist Sean Gage and drummer Rhys Grunden sticking together like liquid nails, hurling the record forward with impossibly tight rhythmic interplay.

On keys, Sam Stearne brings palpable tension to ‘Ballerina’, and imbues ‘Nicole Warren’ with a gorgeous sense of weightlessness. Tom Stephenson, similarly omnipresent and shapeshifting, reaches dizzying heights of slacker ecstasy on ‘Sunny Afternoon’ and ‘Never Really’.

More than anything, however, ‘Dèpaysement’ shines as a product of undeniable chemistry and collective devotion. This is an album of songs that have lived many lives and taken many forms, but now feel strangely familiar and at home together.

Foreign/National’s debut LP, Dépaysement, will be released February 3 through DOWNTIME.

ARTWORK: Alex Jennings ( www.ajayjennings.com )

Mombasa

'oh my' out 26 January, 2018 on Father/Daughter (North America) and Memphis Industries (UK/EU)
Pre-order: smarturl.it/nadine_ohmy

oh my

Not My Kinda Movie

"Canyons" is the debut track from Barrie out now on Winspear.

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2DL9TdC
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2DL6lw5
Bandcamp: https://barrie.bandcamp.com/track/canyons

Keep up with Barrie on the web!
https://www.facebook.com/barrietheband
https://www.instagram.com/barrietheband
https://twitter.com/barrietheband

Artwork by Aaron Denton
www.instagram.com/aaronlowell

Singles

Barrie - Canyons

Heaven's Only Wishful EP

Whatever Comes to Mind

wwoman - Nightwalk 

Stream wwoman:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bvaVxy4LIPalRkLXBkYrX
Watch wwoman:
https://www.youtube.com/wwoman
Stalk wwoman:
https://www.instagram.com/realwwoman/
Buy wwoman:
https://www.realwwoman.com/

wwoman - New Moon

Talk Yourself Out

Produced by David Pye.

Lyrics:
I wanted to be unknown, a stumbler into the fog
The path drew shy of complete, an ankle deep into the bog
I wondered, if you’d be there, laughing aloud, smug in despair
slump backward, in unison, I’ll harbour you, and lay you bare

love you, forever, dropped the ball, pick it up
phantom, in ether, everyones watching

love you, forever. have the gall, take the fall. phantom, in ether. everyones watching.

buckle up, and dive on down, don’t fear the fear you haven’t found

Phantom Mantra

Stream 'Close / Closer' : https://robimitch.fanlink.to/closecloser

Dive head first into Robi's universe with his new single 'Close / Closer' out today via Nice Guys. Robi's music blends lo-fi production and laid-back vocal style, while his experiences as a session guitarist in Taipei lend a distinctiveness to his sound.

Robi Mitch - Close / Closer

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