Elf Power - When The Red King Comes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2017 from the Athens, GA-based indie rockers. Elf Power are part of the legendary Elephant Six Collective. This 2017 album is released on the band's own Orange Twin Records, that has released almost 50 albums since 2001, including releases by Neutral Milk Hotel, Vic Chesnutt, Jeff Mangum, Jack Logan, Nana Grizol, Gerbils and many more. Orange Twin Records works in conjunction with The Orange Twin Conservation Community, 155 acres of beautiful land on the outskirts of Athens, GA that has initiated the development of a highly progressive, self-sustainable and ecologically-minded cluster village and nature preserve. Elf Power began as a four-track recording project. These recording sessions eventually resulted in the first incarnation of their debut album. Since then, they've become a respected and entirely unpredictable musical entity.

2013 from the Athens, Georgia-based Indie outfit. The band recorded the record in a variety of settings ranging from singer/songwriter Andrew Rieger's home studio, to Athens, GA's the Glow studio, to Lavonia, GA's Gypsy Farm Studios, a long derelict Country music theater located in rural Georgia. The album's title originates from accounts Rieger read of astronauts who described their experience of walking on the moon as disorienting and hallucinatory due to the utter darkness of the shadows on the moon, describing their own shadows as Inchpieces of night following them aroundInch. Some of the songs sprung from a return to Elf Power's original mode of songwriting, writing and recording the song simultaneously without rehearsal. Album Tracks 1. Transparent Lines 2. A Grey Cloth Covering My Face 3. Lift the Shell 4. Sunlight on the Moon 5. Grotesquely Born Anew 6. Things Lost 7. Darkest Wave 8. You're Never Gonna Go to Heaven 9. Strange Designs 10. Manifestations 11. Total Annihilation 12. Chromosome Blues 13. A Slow Change

Elf Power formed in 1994 and over the last 19 years have released twelve albums, two EPs, a handful of singles, while touring North America, Europe, and Japan many times. Albums such as 1998's Dave Fridmann-produced InchA Dream in SoundInch and 2008's collaboration with the late Vic Chesnutt, InchDark DevelopmentsInch have cemented the bands' reputation as the finest purveyors of-á modern melodic psychedelic folk rock around. Their latest album, InchSunlight on the MoonInch combines the scuzzy, sleazy recording qualities of their early lo-fi masterworks with their powerful live bombast, with experiments in Kraftwerk-styled/Eno-esque drum machine minimalism, into a seamless, perfectly flowing whole. The album's in October coincides with American tour dates with the recently revived Neutral Milk Hotel, with whom Elf Power did their first big national tour 15 years ago in 1998! Many more headlining shows throughout America and Europe are planned for the fall and spring. Singer/songwriter Andrew Rieger and longtime collaborator multi-instrumentalist Laura Carter are joined by James Huggins (Of Montreal/Great Lakes) on bass, and Peter Alvanos on drums, though all the members play a wide variety of instruments on the recordings. Longtime collaborator Bryan Poole (Of Montreal) still joins the band on guitar at live shows. Album Tracks 1. Transparent Lines 2. A Grey Cloth Covering My Face 3. Lift the Shell 4. Sunlight on the Moon 5. Grotesquely Born Anew 6. Things Lost 7. Darkest Wave 8. You're Never Gonna Go to Heaven 9. Strange Designs 10. Manifestations 11. Total Annihilation 12. Chromosome Blues 13. A Slow Change