From the upcoming record Love's Crushing Diamond

talk softly, walk slowly

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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.

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Elephant - Shapeshifter

Garden Grays

Working under the name Craft Spells, Stockton, Calif.'s Justin Vallesteros makes music for bedsitters who dream about being social. Though often addressed to a love interest either real or imagined, Idle Labor is above all a lonely album that rarely betrays its origin as a solo project. Sonically it recalls Wild Nothing it the way it mines a large swath of 1980s synth pop, but its clear emotional tenor gives it a distinguishing perspective and personality.
Idle Labor exists in a time frame best described by the title of its ebullient centerpiece-- "After the Moment". These are sketches of romantic problems and solutions with the wounds still fresh and the thoughts uncensored. Taken as a whole, it could be read as a narrative following Vallesteros from heartbreak to infatuation and back, a few months' worth of romantic uncertainty boiled down to a taut and hooky album.
In a maundering yearn somewhere between Jens Lekman and Ian Curtis, Vallesteros introduces himself as a lovelorn melodramatist over sunstroked, near-Balearic pop. But as the narrative begins to hint at physical contact, the music works in lockstep, and Vallestreros builds tracks more as a dance producer than a singer-songwriter. And that's where he hits his stride-- while his vocals remain a central fixture, the post-punk mordancy is softened by locomotive arrangements that stack synth pads, ringing guitar, and primitive drum programming.
"Party Talk" starts a mid-album mini-suite with Vallesteros as a nebbishy Woody Allen character trying to decode a mutual romantic connection from casual conversation. But he leaps forward during the upbeat "From the Morning Heat", and by the fantastic morning-after celebration "After the Moment", something has apparently clicked; Vallesteros repeats the chorus as if he knows it's the best he's written.
The emotional high is predictably short-lived, and even within its brief half-hour runtime, more than a few of the melodies take detours and left turns. "The Fog Rose High" has the feel of a gothier Beach Fossils, while the anodyne dream-pop scruff of "You Should Close the Door" could have been a Radio Dept. B-side. But as with so many bedroom auteurs' debuts, it's tough to separate the creation from the creator, and Idle Labor shows the promise of a precocious songwriter who isn't claiming to have anything totally figured out just yet.

Craft Spells -  After the Moment

As I Am is included on our debut album Lacuna! 
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Childhood - As I Am

Washed Up

"Signal Drift" appears on Aloha's sixth full-length album, Little Windows Cut Right Through, out May 6, 2016.

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Aloha - Signal Drift

First track from the Twain album "Rare Feeling" coming October 20, 2017 via Keeled Scales on LP, CD, cassette, and digital release.

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Tracklist:
1. Solar Pilgrim
2. The Sorcerer
3. Little Dog Mind
4. Hank & Georgia
5. Freed From Doubt
6. Rare Feeling Pt. 2
7. Black Chair
8. Dear Mexico (Thank You for Joyce)
9. Good Old Friend

Rare Feeling

Twain "Solar Pilgrim"

Feelin’ Left Out

verse 1
When you coming over
how long will you make me wait 
getting pretty burnt out
feelin like i'll wilt away 
in your shadow
hoping for the rain
but do i even know ya
cause it feels like you’ve changed

Chorus 
I don’t wanna feel left out
tryin not to dry out baby
im fine just don’t waste me
cried out 
feeling like you lied now
so tell me 
whats the plan and who’s your man girl

Verse 2
feeling so hung over
wishing i had less of you
since im startin over 
you don’t even have to choose
your cold shoulder a shelter now I’ve got a place to stay
don’t wanna own ya so im goin gunna walk away

Chorus 
I don’t wanna feel left out
tryin not to dry out baby
im fine just don’t waste me
cried out 
feeling like you lied now
so tell me 
whats the plan and who’s your man girl

In Real Time

Feelin' Left Out

Gardens & Villa

Black Hills

Gardens and Villa - "Black Hills"

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Last year, we went back up to the beautiful Outlier Inn and made two new EPs: Moonlight Baby & Afternoon With Caroline. We will be releasing each song from these EPs one by one all 2018 long on a playlist called El Dig (fanlink.to/ElDig).

Follow along with us so you don’t miss any of the new tunes. We'll pick a few of you at random along the way and send you some fun things, like colored double vinyl, hand-numbered single artwork prints & more.

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Don't Stop Running

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