Elliphant – Revolusion

WILL NOT BE TELEVULZERITED…

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[5.00]Katherine St Asaph: Elliphant is Yet Another Swedish Indie-Synthpop Artist that I keep making us cover, has been a Yet Another for a while now (like so many), and like so many stumbles across a compelling sound eventually. This is that sound, or more accurately a combo of sounds: Songs That Sound Like “Dissolved Girl” (RIYL: the middle of The Future’s Void), Sounds That Sound Like “Ring the Alarm” (RIYL: airhorns, all the airhorns) and Songs That Sound Like Trap (RIYL: trap??? Also this, featuring Skrillex, who seems to have a thing for Ellies.) Caveats: disregard the patois, disregard the talk of revolution.
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Iain Mew: So, like, ska, plus revolutionary shouting, plus drops? It’s an intriguing idea. The thing is that those are three different things which all suggest energy, but in practice they all get lost within a uniform murk that’s spread across the song.
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Alfred Soto: This electrodub and EDM-riding amalgam boasts enough curls and twists and earbending effects that it’s guaranteed to keep me returning. Here’s yet another example of eschewing generalizations about what kinds of music cultures make and appreciate.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Someone get this girl in a room with CL already and strike the faux-revolution signifiers from the record: arresting sonics and a sneer but without a face. Posturing’s fine — shit, run with the okayish (?) revolutionary angle but where we have clued-in dancehall storms that sound like wars, Elliphant seems mousy.
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Brad Shoup: No blood is being drawn from dubstep’s stone. The shouty vocals ought to have been treated with some level of invention. But the title’s doing all the (dirty) work.
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Patrick St. Michel: Really revolutionary, brostep.
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