Release Date: 1/01/1978
Recording Date: 1/1977
Tracks: 5
Length: 00:39:26 Hrs
Label: Columbia
Type: CD,LP
- Genre/Styles
- Jazz-Funk, Post-Bop, Hard Bop
Album Tracks (5)
Currently 0.0 / 5.0 Stars
To share this media with a friend, you must have AIM installed. Click the "Download AIM" button to install AIM. If you already have AIM, click the "Send Instant Message"
What the Critics Say
New York's Elefant gets significant points for the album title, pretty great in the blandest period in rock music history. Musically they score too. While the band fall straight into the "indie-rock" category, their music is anything but generic. Diego Garcia, the band's frontman and songwriter, understands intrinsically how lyrics and melody work together to transfer the emotion in a song. Where as the opener, a gorgeous love song called "Make Up" sounds like a punky little pop0 tune, it conveys something far deeper and wider. The popping bass line that propels "Now That I Miss Her," actually underscores the melody long before the guitars ever kick in. And while he is singing he imparts the paradox in loss and grief and loneliness and anger as well as self-loathing. When he sings: "Without her/ it all feels the same/ Without her/you got no one else to blame�but yourself," he captures it all and the guitars begin to roar and scream as he realizes his importance and admits: And all that I can do/Is write a Song about her/And hope one day she turns around." It's a plea that sails out on the sonic waves of pure rock deliverance. And while it is true that Elefant's music harkens back to a 1980s that had the Cure topping the charts, it sounds nothing like that. The bass lines and lean guitar arrangements and sometimes near mechanical drumming serve to create seduction to the gorgeous melodies Garcia writes, and these further the often bleak but more often resigned emotions in his lyrics. The listener has the opportunity to empathize with these songs; one can find themselves inside them and be surrounded by memories real or imagined and swirl with rhythm driven swirl of motion and sentience Elefant displays here. And wha6t'smore the title track lives up to its name. This is refreshing, luxurious, quirky and honest rock and roll. ~ Thom Jurek , All Music Guide
