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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Fwd: new to me: Elefant |
| Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:00:35 -0800 (PST) |
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> Hey all:
As long as I've started this unprecedented flurry of
posts, I thought I'd mention how much i've been
enjoying this Elefant cd "sunlight makes me
paranoid." this is the band i always wished the
aluminum
Group would be. The singerdude Diego Garcia has
> that
> weird, deep pseudo-operatic 80's britpop vocal
> styling
> (think Morrisey, but also ABC or Human League) and
> they back it with what i think of as New York pop,
> kind of like Blondie (but not so disco) or the Cars
> -
> also some similarities (music, not voice) to an
> austin
> band, Chomsky: sheeny, driving, with little
> shimmery
> synth-washes to add a bits of psych furs or echo n
> the
> bunnymen (though elefant never rocks that hard, at
> least on disc - not rocking as hard as e & the bm?
> you
> laugh, but they rocked live: that '88 show was one
> of
> the best, rockingest covers of "paint it black" i
> ever
> saw.) A good example is "now that i miss her,"
> which
> is on www.elefantweb.com. They are not as inventive
> as what i think of as the "really good stuff" out
> now
> (shins or spoon, eg) but well worth the $8.00 or
> whatever.
>
> --kelly
>
> np: elefant. i like it much better than that dull
> Walkmen cd that i got at the same time. did anyone
> else find them incredibly dull? dull, dull, dull.
>
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