New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Following appearances at The Great Escape and the BBC Fringe Festival, Liverpool rock trio ELEVANT are pleased reveal the video for new single 'Rounding Error', set for release on 1st June via Loner Noise Records.
The track is the latest to be taken from their new EP Here Come The Cold Sweats which is set for release later this year, with the band continuing a run of further May 2018 UK tour dates this month (see below for listings) ahead of appearing at Liverpool
Calling Festival in June alongside the likes of Pulled Apart By Horses, The Wytches, Demob Happy and more.
Once again filmed and directed by collaborator
James Lyall, the video was conceived by Lyall and the band, and shot on location across Liverpool's vibrant Baltic Triangle region, the band's flat and the Liverpool University studios.
Starring long-term friend Abbie Brennan, the protagonist is relentlessly judged on all the mundanities of her life by three figures in white coats played by the band, who are busy assessing the pointless minutiae: how long it takes her to get home from work, how long it takes her to brush her teeth, how far she sits from the TV, and what she has to eat. Finally, she's judged to have failed on all counts.
"It's an abstraction of the dehumanisation that occurs in a lot of life's modern and mundane societal processes, where we're often reduced down to our data." says front man Edwards on the concept behind the single and video. "The video reinforces the sentiments in the song's lyrics, which were written after a friend of mine had a frustrating and humiliating experience with the DWP while trying to prove that his mental health was bad enough for him to not be fit to work."
Already prolific songwriters with reams of early material under their belts, for the new single Edward and the band drew aspects of their sound from the likes of Sonic Youth,
Fugazi and 'The Idiot' era Iggy Pop, 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.
Further details of Here Come The Cold Sweats TBA
ELEVANT 2018 Live Dates:
29.05.18 - Edinburgh - Leith Depot
30.05.18 - Glasgow - Bloc
31.05.18 - Newcastle - Arch Sixteen Café
23.06.18 - Liverpool
Calling Festival
Watch the video for previous single 'Nowhere' here: https://youtu.be/MC37HKiBSPA
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.
