New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Liverpool rock trio ELEVANT are pleased to announce their new EP Here Come The Cold Sweats ahead of a run of May 2018 UK tour dates (see below for listings).
Further details of the record will be revealed over the coming months, but for now the band have shared the video for lead single 'Nowhere' which is released 27th April 2018 ahead of their appearance at WRONG Festival.
The visual marks director
James Lyall's first foray into music videos, and was filmed in Liverpool John Moore's University TV studio. Subverting the 'band plays song' cliché music video (by first of all taking the piss out of that concept at every opportunity), as the song progresses the band's playing deteriorates into a shambolic mess whilst their equipment collapses around them. The entire video was filmed in one continuous shot, requiring an "excessive amount" of takes to complete.
Already prolific songwriters with reams of early material under their belts, for this new single Edward and the band drew aspects of their sound from the likes of Soundgarden,
Thom Yorke and The Melvins, all filtered through an increasingly complex and discordant array of influences that jostle and vie for attention in the band's often chaotic and winding music.
Commenting on the single, front man Michael Edward said: "Although the tone of the video is more sarcastic than that of the song, we thought that having everything fall apart despite our best efforts was a good mirror for the lyrical themes. 'Nowhere' was written from a real rock bottom relationship moment coming from the stresses of trying to help and be in love with someone who was going through a bad bout of depression, and not knowing what to do or how you can make a difference at all. It's still fairly emotional to sing it now, and as much as it doesn't read like it, it's probably the closest we get to writing a love song."
Further details of Here Come The Cold Sweats TBA
ELEVANT 2018 Live Dates:
28.04.18 - Liverpool - Invisible Wind Factory (WRONG Festival)
04.05.18 - Manchester - The Eagle
05.05.18 - Liverpool - Smithdown Rd Festival
06.05.18 - Liverpool - Sound City Festival
11.05.18 - London - The Macbeth
17.05.18 - Brighton - East Street Tap (Great Escape/Alternative Escape)
19.05.18 - Leeds -
Verve Bar
20.05.18 - Stoke - The Underground (BBC Fringe)
29.05.18 - Edinburgh - Leith Depot
30.05.18 - Glasgow - Bloc
31.05.18 - Newcastle -
Little Buildings
23.06.18 - Liverpool
Calling Festival
Elevant online:
https://www.facebook.com/ElevantMusik/
https://www.instagram.com/elevantmusik/
https://elevantband.com/
https://elevant.bandcamp.com/
More about Elevant:
Elevant might just be one of the hardest working bands in the North West that you haven't yet heard of - not quite a household name, they do, however, boast a legion of fans within their home city of Liverpool and across the UK's disparate underground venues, noise nights and wyrd circles.
Formed in 2014 as a vehicle for Edward to perform a group of songs he had written with no solid line-up, this incredibly prolific band have since released a slew of records to cult success on the UK underground rock circuit including their Self-Titled debut (2014), Dreamface (2015), There is a Tide (2016), standalone single 'Hide it Away' (2016), and an EP Normal Life (which was recorded at Abbey Road) in 2017.
The band's most recent material has seen them move from a more straightforward heavy rock sound with psych and post-punk influences, onto something more eclectic and well-rounded, with elements of grunge, noise rock, trip-hop, shoegaze, hardcore, stoner/doom, and pop influences all beginning to come into play.
"We made a concerted effort to tighten up our songwriting into something more focussed and digestible with better hooks," explains Edward "We wanted to evolve whilst retaining the previous edge and energy, which brings us to this batch of songs which have gone further into honing that idea - all the fat trimmed, hooks razor sharp, but keeping the sonic experimentation and power."
Elevant are staunch supporters of the independent music scene, establishing their own label Loner Noise originally to release their own music and provide some autonomy, but then going on to sign further acts across the UK such as SPQR, Gravves and Kapil Seshasayee, with the idea being to help build and propagate a mutually beneficial scene around what they and their contemporaries doing. This effort was furthered with the advent of annual Liverpool gathering Wrong Festival by Edward, which went a long way to putting the Liverpool DIY scene on the map nationally, and garnered some vital early attention for the band and their peers.
Elevant already have an impressive collection of life performances to their, appearing alongside the likes of Bo Ningen, Idles, The Wytches, God Damn, Part Chimp, Kagoule,
Future of the Left, Damo Suzuki, Mugstar, Gnod and many more. They've also appeared at Wrong Festival, which the band organise and promote themselves, as well as Liverpool Calling, Tramlines, Threshold, Liverpool
Music Week, Wigan Live, Chester Live, Sound City and The Great Escape.
