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

"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

From "Mother's Son" Vol II EP.

Recorded at home by Francis Lung. 
Produced by Francis Lung and David Jay in Manchester.
Mixed by Adam Jaffrey and David Jay at Unwound Studios, London.

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Dance 4 Sorrow

Ghost

Learning to see the beauty in a past relationship even if it means moving on.

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New Life

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"Paresthesia" from the album Mirror Touch by Wild Ones — available October 6, 2017 on cassette, vinyl, CD, and digitally from Topshelf Records.

Wild Ones - "Paresthesia"

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Brother

Just Visiting

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

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Wild Ones - "Paresthesia"

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