Elephant - Shooting For The Moon
It's a struggle to come across as casual as Elephant. After the acclaimed breakthrough album Big Thing (2022), the Rotterdam indie band tackles its own cynicism on the successor Shooting for the Moon with irresistible guitar melodies, steadfast nonchalance and lyrics that make the routine seem a little more romantic. The summer sun is shining full on the four of them and they will embrace it, because for them nothing is as radical as peace and optimism.
With a sold-out club tour, the necessary airplay and the predicate 'Promising Talent' from the hands of de Volkskrant, 3voor12 and 3FM, you could safely say that Elephant is doing well. Shooting for the Moon is also a hopeful album, for which the band enlisted the help of Flemish singer-songwriter Meskerem Mees and producer Pablo van de Poel (DeWolff) but mainly drew from their own magical foursome. For a long time, all four of them had mainly been sidemen in other people's projects, now they suddenly had the entire playground to themselves.
After Big Thing was born in a period of pandemic uncertainty, liberation and calm dawn on the second album. “The sunshine falls upon my face. It's been so long that I felt anything so real as I feel right now,” it sounds on 'Enemy'. Not the rain, but the blue sky. Not the night, but the morning. Here speaks a close-knit group that wants to make something beautiful at all costs - with the velvet gloves of Andy Shauf, the timid posture of Teenage Fanclub and The Feelies and the homely warmth of Wilco.
Not that the cynicism that Elephant tries to banish before every rehearsal has completely disappeared. On the opening track, the band even briefly loses its temper: “I hate your post-punk pretensions, your fake English accent,” they sigh. Rest assured, post-punk lovers. This is not about an aversion to the genre, but about the uncertainty and self-development of an ambitious band in bloom, a band that aims for the moon, flies dangerously close to the sun and knows full well how fabulous that sounds.
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