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The Elanors A Year To Demonstrate music review
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The Elanors A Year To Demonstrate
Isidore
From Champaign, Illinois comes a band so uncommonly close to Radiohead,
that
it’s almost unbelievable. The group, which sports Noah M.S. (vocals,
guitar,
piano) and Adriel Harris (vocals, baritone guitar) as the
husband-and-wife
duo backed by close friend Joshua Lucas (drums), is absolutely the
greatest
indie band to come out of the Chicagoland area for a very long time.
This is
the band that everyone has long awaited to show the others how it’s
done,
and without further ado, here they are.
Track listing:
01 Roads To Freedom
02 Poets
03 Tumble Into Fall
04 Designs
05 Glances
06 Hold On Me
07 Day Like Today
08 Gunfire
09 Completely
10 Lost A Seam
11 On All Its Strings
The release of their debut, A Year To Demonstrate (Isidore, 2005) is
nothing
short of extraordinary. The intimate chemistry of the couple, aided by
their
family friend is clearly apparent and shines through with such gleaming
beauty, that playing the album alone sets an aura into the room. With a
sigh
of relief, at last there is a band that starts in the home to bring
comfort
into another’s.
‘Roads To Freedom’ has Noah pinpointing Thom Yorke with a ‘Karma
Police’
beat, with a gently flowing, whimsically melodic sound. There are sweet
serenades with a Wilco charm, and darling vocals from Adriel, who adds
such
an ominous presence to the entire album with just one note. Songs
contain a
David Gray elegance with their admirable artistic view on subjects
completed
by adoring lyrics and musical mastery.
Reminiscent of the melancholy beauty, time-is-of-the-essence ‘Exit
Music For
A Film’, The Elanor’s ‘Design’ traipses carefully across the fine line
of
serenity and sorrow, with a casual, slow buildup. Like a decadently
enticing
dance, track after track, the Illinois trio will whisk you off of your
feet.
There are growing ripple effects of a leading piano, and warm melodies
to
soothe the heart. And if there is such a term, it’s like sweet lounge
music,
with a delicate bossanova cadence. Some of the songs are short
captivating
jaunts, and others are prolonged storytales and sensitive lullabies.
If Yorke was hopelessly in love and recording in the studio, this is
the
type of masterpiece he would conjure up. Adriel’s complimentary
harmonics, a
typewriter in place of everyday percussion and those fabled lyrics that
would be comparable to a nurturing paternal Bob Dylan at his children’s
bedside all add to the tender sound that makes this band so incredible.
The future shines brightly on a band this talented; you can expect
nothing
less. This album is one of the rarities that is a perfect listen from
start
to finish, just as I expect the band’s career to be.
