Spring Snow [excerpt] by William Matthews And here comes snow, a language in which no word is ever repeated, love is impossible, and remorse. . . . Yet childhood doesn’t end, but accumulates, each memory knit to the next, and the fields become one field. If to die is to lose all detail, then death…
Tag: Elephants On Tape
Super World Interview Time: Markus and Lisa from Elephants On Tape
Ivory now and then a band comes along that makes you sit up and notice. Elephants On Tape are one such, we’ve featured them on a few occasion and they are regulars on the SWIT Towers turntable. The band make “sophisticated, clever, multi-layered music” as attested by their wonderful debut LP “Lightweights” which has just…
Elephants On Tape are under the microscope
Elephants On Tape – “Microscope” “Microscope” by SWIT favourites ELEPHANTS ON TAPE is the second single from the debut album “Lightweights” (Kick the Flame Publishing) which is released on the 16th of February. It’s another beautiful, finely crafted pop song to follow from their wonderful debut which was a big hit with us last year….
SWIT’s Week 27082017: The 14 BEST tunes from your premiere music service.
Well another whirlwind week at SWI HQ, as Gerry said, we’ve relocated to a bunker under the ancient Newgrange passage tomb so I haven’t seen any actual daylight for quite some time, for all I know this week could have been seven or seventy days long. Gerry refuses to enlighten me about the move except…
The Road Up North mixes it with Elephants On Tape
ELEPHANTS ON TAPE – “Lightweights” (The Road Up North Remix) About Lightweights we originally said “Understatement is an art in these days of excessive everything. “Lightweights” is understatement as art, insistent, minimalist keyboards, barely audible backing vocals, looped beats and silence – all integral, nothing wasted, as a spider web being weaved before your eyes…
The Week 04062017: The 17 best tracks from the last 7 days.
It’s June ! Tune June – the tunes of June are here, no need to beware. We went to see Woog Riots in Dublin last night and they were great so like this is probably going out a bit late – can’t be sure as I wrote it days ago. It’s a conundrum or maybe…
We caught these ELEPHANTS ON TAPE
ELEPHANTS ON TAPE – “Lightweights” “I can see the light in your eyes, you’re too far from my side” Understatment is an art in these days of excessive everything. “Lightweights” is understatement as art, insistent, minimalist keyboards, barely audible backing vocals, looped beats and silence – all integral, nothing wasted, as a spider web being…
