Elika , one mainstays bands in the NYC dream-pop/shoegazer scene, is releasing today their 4th album entitled "Always The Light", and offering a free mp3 of the single "No One Gets Lost", streaming below. Compared with the band's previous material, this song unveils a less guitar-centric sound, as if the electronic elements that always constituted the band's rhythmic section had slowly taken over other roles in the band. So much so that the shoegazer matrix is almost completely lost in favor of a more complex electro-pop sound, characterized by carefully chosen drum sounds, layered synths, sudden melodic openings, ambient [...]
Glitchy loops and droning organs make for a surprisingly moving electronic elegy on Brooklyn duo's latest Despite colloquial usage to the contrary, nostalgia is not celebration or replication of the past, but a longing for beloved places and circumstances lost to time. When it comes to nostalgic mourning in this sense, pop musicians often go back-to-basics, as if plaintive acoustic strumming somehow represented a universally shared vision of pastoral innocence and happiness. But that's just not the kind of music that Brooklyn-based electronic duo Elika makes. When the band turned its...
Elika's new album has all the right ingredients, but none of the right outcomes. Music Player (reviews): 01 Stay Beside Me.mp3 [...]
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When most people think of Madonna, they think of bawdy pop hits sung a relatively high-pitched, Betty Boop giggle. Most other people think of her "Music" album-an updated, techno/disco version of her initial "Like a Virgin" persona. Me, I think of "Bedtime Stories." She sang in a lower register for that album, and even used acoustic guitar on the first single, "Secret." Overall, the record was electronic, but it focused a lot more on the songwriting where her previous material focused more on hookwriting. It was her sixth album, and although it didn't sell crazy the way her [...]
Floating above the competitive music scene of Brooklyn is a duo, Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenkebach. The pair goes under Elika to produce "electrogaze." This is a genre we should all be familiar with, especially after the rise of M83 . Therefore, if you throw Anthony Gonzalez (M83), Ladytron , Keep Shelly in Athens , and School of Seven Bells into a blender, the stimulating outcome makes Elika. Elika has been making music since 2006 and in March of this year, they are releasing Always The Light via Saint [...]
Floating above the competitive music scene of Brooklyn is a duo, Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenkebach. The pair goes under Elika to produce "electrogaze." This is a genre we should all be familiar with, especially after the rise of M83. Therefore, if you throw Anthony Gonzalez (M83), Ladytron, Keep Shelly in Athens, and School of Seven Bells [...]
Brooklyn shoegazers Elika have done it again. Their album Always The Light puts the computerized percussion on center stage, with the vocals of Evagelia Maravelias sounding aloof and lazy. Brian Wenckebach drops in guitar flourishes one-at-time and this sparse approach serves as a wake-up call during the dreamy passages that are plentiful on this album. The single No One Gets Lost is a left-field pop ditty that could have been recorded by Kate Bush during the sessions for The Dreaming . Changes are that casual listeners [...]
As written a few days ago ; no New Year's resolutions, but it's my intention that I will try to check out more of the stuff arriving in the mailbox this year than I managed to last year. Since I've made these kinds of posts several times before, you ought to know exactly what you're getting. Some great music (at least I hope you think so as well) and next to no writing... + The Minor Leagues - Ghost Maps [...]
Elika : No One Gets Lost - MP3 Il y a plus d'un an, Summer d' Elika avait été un très gros coup de cœur. Evagelia Maravelias et Brian Wenckebach reviennent en 2012 avec Always The Light , un LP annoncé pour le 5 mars chez Saint Marie Records . No One Gets Lost , le premier extrait, est un exemple parfait de l'univers du duo, dans la veine [...]
Some "new" for you... Bears - Eleven a.m. from Greater Lakes out February 14 on Misra Records Notes: Sleepy dream pop from this Cleveland outfit. You can stream more from Bears here . - Elika - No One Gets Lost from Always the Light [...]
Blistering shoegazey indie rock trio Dead Leaf Echo are heading down to Austin, Texas to play this year's SXSW music festival next Friday afternoon at Guero's patio/lawn presentation alongside Living Days, Speak and more. They're also all wrapped up with a new EP called Verisimilitude scheduled to be out May 31 on Custom Made Music [...]
Elika's video for the single "Summer" was produced by 10lb Pictures. Their album "Snuggle Bunnies" is available here and here. http://www.facebook.com/elikam usic http://www.elikamusic.com/
I love a song with a good drum machine. In my opinion getting a drum machine to sound good is probably harder (it's definitely not) than playing drums. Unless you have no arms, then it's probably easier. January is the perfect time to come out with a video for a song called summer. Bands are always coming out with summer sounding songs in the summer and winter sounding songs in the winter. I like it when people mix things up a bit. Like when I hear a good driving song right as I get in a [...]
Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach are Elika , a duo from in Brooklyn. Their new full-length Snuggle Bunnies is bit more experimental than its predecessor Trying Got Us Nowhere . Singer Evagelia Maravelias stills sounds an awful lot like Madonna, but with a better range and not straying of pitch. Basically an electronically driven shoegaze outfit, they have sneaked in dreamy soundscapes, like the instrumental Polynya and lazy afterhours vocals for the album's closing track Tidal Wave . This is a Sunday [...]
What a strange year we've had. Don't like Killers? Go see Knight and Day! Don't like The A-Team? Go see The Losers! And now, don't like Liz Phair? Check out Elika! The reviews have pretty much been universally "meh" for Liz Phair's "Funstyle" album (even if CD kinda liked it): " Funstyle stands as something far greater than the sum of its dubious, ostensibly bullshit parts "; " I think I might be one of the few people who doesn't see Funstyle as a total disaster! "; "I t's unclear whether [...]
During the monsoon season i collected some beautiful tunes, then decided to make another mixtape with tracks from : Lykke Li Club 8 Elika Class Actress the Golden Filter Scanners Now, Now Oh Land Miami Horror Sally Shapiro Sunday Girl The Sunshine Factory Acid House Kings enjoy. :) ---- new stuff at the online store http://slantedtoys.bigcartel.c omm
En mayo de 2008 hablábamos por aquí de Elika, un dúo de indie-pop electrónico, quienes nos sorprendían con su álbum de debut "Tryng Got Us Nowhere". Recientemente hemos tenido conocimiento de la próxima publicación, vía Automatic Entertainment , del que va a ser su nuevo trabajo, el cual lleva por nombre "Snuggle Bunnies" y sale a la venta mañana día 29 de octubre. Al igual que sucediera con el anterior, nos ofrecen una colección de canciones a medio camino entre el dream pop y el shoegaze, de suaves melodías [...]
Are band from Brooklyn, with the signature "Brooklyn Sounds"(i just made up the word) that include dirty sounds, dreamy ambient plus added gloomy synths and layered angelic voices. Their new album "Snuggle Bunnies" is going to be released 10/29/10 via Automatic Entertainment (Robin Guthrie, Asobi Seksu, The Radio Dept.). www.elikamusic.com www.facebook.com/elikamusic www.automatic.com.pe/ingles/ se_home.htm ---- new stuff at the online store http://slantedtoys.bigcartel.c omm
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