Whilst The Elephant Trees are a band passionate about inclusion, social consciousness continues as a motif throughout their music, with their latest track a commentary on the lacklustre reality of being born in the information age. 

Musically, The Elephant Trees describe themselves as sounding like Florence Ad The Machine, if the machine were Enter Shikari. Compounding elements of electronica with the raw vibrations of rock, Ones And Zeros is textually outrageous, balancing heavy synth with euphoric guitar phrases. 

Inspired by and written as a homage to Martha’s late grandfather, Ones And Zeros challenges our collective intellect and mentality in an existence where the world resides in the palm of your hand or your back pocket. 

“He was an absolute legend, the kind of guy who knew everything about everything, had been atop all the mountains and had a crazy tale for each of them. He’d sit in his armchair in the front room surrounded by books and maps, overflowing with information on the stars, the planet, architecture, and agriculture, and was the most generous you could ever hope to meet. 

He developed a very aggressive cancer and we lost him over the pandemic. It was a pain I’d never experienced, but the last few weeks we had with him were spent in that front room surrounded by all of his knowledge. It struck me that my grandad was one of the only people I knew that learned everything first-hand. He’d been up the mountains, he’d grown his own food, he’d explored the world in the most analogue fashion. He won’t mind me telling you that he was truly terrible with technology - but he didn’t need it.

Meanwhile, here I am (and my fellow Gen-Zs), knowing everything about nothing. I have the world at my fingertips, access to the biggest collection of data this world has ever seen in a glass box that fits in my hand. We can know anything we want in an instant, and yet, is any of it real? This song is a reminder that for any of us who have grown up in the tech age, our whole understanding of the world has come to us in the form of ones and zeros. It’s hard to imagine now whether we could survive in the wild without the help of technology… We have a lot to be grateful for in the ones and zeros, but we also need to remember to experience life in 4D.”

Ones And Zeros comes out on 18th February via Incantation Records across all streaming platforms.

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