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A
dark and catchy four-piece from
San Francisco’s Mission District, elephone’s dark
guitar textures, dynamic vocals and literary vision have earned
them comparisons to Radiohead, The Arcade Fire and The Cure
in local and national press.
Over the course of seven months following
the release of ‘The Shivering EP’ (DIY Or Else),
the band went through several line-up changes. While most
bands would lose focus at this point, elephone took the opportunity
to narrow their song writing down to a basic, concise form.
Collaborating with producer and engineer Chris Cline (...Trail
Of Dead) and label owner Daniel Crowell, the band returned
to the studio during the Winter of 2005. The resulting material
- ‘The Camera Behind The Camera Behind The Camera’
- is significantly more focused, clean, and melodic.
From the very first stick clicks on ‘Let
Go Of My Arm’, you know that this album is going to
be an upbeat and energetic masterpiece. Intricate, moving,
cinematic, elephone is defining a sound and movement like
other breakaway artistic acts from Interpol to U2.
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Camera Behind The Camera Behind The Camera
National Release Date: July 11,
2006
*Available NOW, exclusively through TRR!*
Sure to be one of the most exciting releases
of 2006, 'The Camera...' will not disappoint! Produced by
elephone, Chris Cline, and Dan Crowell, featuring Hellen
Jo (cellist from Scrabbel), this album starts off with unrelenting,
dark hooks and then subsides to a haunting calm. The buzz
is massive and will only grow as listeners discover this
behemoth of a record! Expertly mastered by the legendary
Paul Stubblebine (Joy Division, New Order).
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Track
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01 - Let Go of My Arm
02 - The Hemlock Three (mp3)
03 - The Camera Behind The Camera Behind The Camera
04 - Elephone
05 - Night Terrors
06 - 1000 Fingers
07 - Unordinary
08 - Hollyhock
09 - Something About Fire |
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$12
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Bunny
Ear 7"
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Get it while you can, folks! Pressed in a
limited number of 200, this hand numbered 7" includes
two songs from the upcoming full length LP as well as an
exclusive non-album track entitled 'Seconds'! Pressed on
white vinyl with a hand silk-screened sleeve, also includes
a cdr of all three songs! This record is only available
for purchase via Three Ring Records and from the band at
their live shows.
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Track
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Side A: Hemlock 3
Side B: Elephone, Seconds |
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$7
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Includes CDR
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Band
Website: www.elephonemusic.net
Reviews
for The Camera...
"The
Camera Behind The Camera Behind The Camera is an album that
you can sing along to as you are dreaming. Its persistent
dark hooks and choruses make for an interesting listening
session." - Fresno
Underground
"Listening to the raucous, tempestuous nine track album
with the long name, it is clear that being the next in San
Francisco is too confining; this might be the next band to
rocket forward, a la The Strokes or The Vines..." - Eric
Mertz, Kevchino.com
"...the band
displays a remarkable ability to condense its melodrama into
its tightest, catchiest songs yet. Camera more than one-ups
the work of Lambert's Kids Inc. cast mates — it ranks
among the best of the Bay Area's rock scene."
- Jimmy Draper, SF
Bay Guardian
"...based
on their new material, elephone are well on its way to earning
an enviable position at the forefront of San Francisco's next
wave of bands, alongside Film School, Rogue Wave, and the
Velvet Teen." - Connie Hwong, Performer
Press for elephone
"Pitch-black
and sweet like dark chocolate. Why settle for filler when
you have the goods?” - SF Bay Guardian
“Tenebrous power-pop impressionism
gets a psychedelic make-over in this emotional and intelligent
bay-area quintet. See them now so you can say you heard them
when.” - SF Weekly
“Local quartet elephone are ready
to assume the title of "local darling". An intriguing
mixture of dream pop and mood rock with intense vocals, well-placed
synths and fuzzy guitars.” - Flavorpill |
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