Video of the Day The Pink Elephants
Transcontinental Psychedelic/Shoegaze band The Pink Elephants, lead by Ottawa, Canada‘s multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter McNestry (vocals, guitar, synth, drums) along with Athens, Greece based Art Pegis (vocals, guitar, synth) and vocalist Sophia Mamassi, skillfully mold from groovy rhythms, searing droning synths, treated guitars and female bewitching vocals, to create hypnotic, hazy soundscapes as abstract and atmospheric, as they are oppressive and otherworldly, rich of intense emotional nuances drenched in subtle deep contrasts of calm and tension, rapture and anguish, lights and shadows.
The group have dropped at the start of June the 4-track EP “In Death We Ascend And Carry The Light” with new collaborations: Sofia Vondell (vocals), Simon Mackie (drums, vocals, guitar) and Gabriella Cos (vocals), and from which comes the video for the song “Better Days” featuring Gabriella Cos on lead vocals and effects.
Trance inducing repetitive steady syncopated backbeats and loud emerging synth noises loudly whistle and blow as sultry, tempestuous, dreamy female vocals of pain, obsession, and longing drift and drone mocking a man stuck in an insatiable overstimulated world where everything is a click away. Deep echoes and mystical hums interspersed by striking sharp synths and deep guitar reverberations pierce the hazy atmospherics inebriated in careless doubt taking you through waves of trance and stunning electric shock.
Cover of the forthcoming The Pink Elephants’ release “God’s Children Breath The Ether While Holding Up The Sky” due out October 2019
