Holy crap what a beautiful build up and final verse. Magical song

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

First single by Sea Change

Written, performed and produced by Sea Change
Mixed by Lasse Kuhlmann 


BURSTING

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

Stream

Stray Fossa - Heartbeats (The Knife)

Robin Kester – Blinds

The first single from the new EP.

We're on tour!

We'll play at SXSW in Austin
16.03 Austin SXSW @ Hotel Vegas at Volstead
17.03 Austin SXSW @ Esther’s Follies 
18.03 Austin SXSW @ International Day Stage at Brush Square Park

More dates
25.03 Stockholm - Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern
07.04. Berlin - Prachtwerk

Support Act for Shout Out Louds:
19.06. Hamburg - Gruenspan
20.06. Berlin - Festsaal Kreuzberg
21.06. Köln - Gloria
22.06. Darmstadt - Centralsation
23.06. München - Freiheitshalle
24.06. Wien - Arena
25.06. Dresden - Beatpol
26.06. Hannover - MusikZentrum 


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Wrap Your Arms

From TOPS' LP "Picture You Staring" 
Order here: tinyurl.com/pqoh8t9
Released September 2nd

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outside, you don't know why
tell each other in the middle of the night
talk about it like you really want to know 
what she running around for?

rat-tat the door unlatch
someone here to take you back
outside in the middle of the street
are you getting what you need?

thoughts of you 
running through my mind
open door but it doesn't feel right 
you look at me as if you know what it's like 
in the shadows of the streetlight

now i know 
I can't go back
you're with her and she doesn't deserve that
but when I look into your eyes
you see something I'm trying to hide 

thoughts of you 
running through my mind
open door but it doesn't feel right 
you look at me as if you know what it's like 
in the shadows of the streetlight
shadow, why's it a shame for me to love?

Picture You Staring

Outside

TOPS "Outside"

Out now. Listen on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer or pre-order limited edition vinyl from Amazon here: smarturl.it/y975uy

Taken from "Golden Island" out on January 26 on Labrador.

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Publicity: andi@riotactmedia.com

Golden Island

Club 8 - Fire

Moon

'I Saw You' is out June 15, 2018 on Hit City U.S.A. & Strangers Candy. Artwork photo by Hayley Eichenbaum (http://www.hayley-eichenbaum.com). 

Vinyl & cassettes:
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Tank Town

I Saw You

First Body

Phone Call

Jadu Heart - Forgotten Ghosts

Tickets to their UK/Europe 2020 Tour on sale now at: https://www.jaduheart.com

VLF003

VLF Records 2019

Forgotten Ghosts

https://twopeoplemusic.com/

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Phone Call

Two People

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