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Sycamore EP

by Elbows

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The Rain / Sparrow Creek 04:35
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Windowpane 04:12
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Supper 01:33
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On January 26 Elbows returns with the Sycamore EP. Building on the sonic stylings of his 2017 debut, the Corduroy EP, Sycamore sees Elbows home in on a more singular mood, combining damp synth pads and 808s with woodsy percussion and acoustic instrumentation. Songs segue from outros to interludes to new songs like wandering thoughts on a walk home. Beginning with a long rewind, Sycamore takes listeners on a journey through Elbows' past, with vivid verses recounting his youth in The Bay Area, soured relationships, and growing up sibling-less.

Opening track and lead single, “The Rain,” warps through different musical eras, moving from a contemporary hip hop beat, to would-be samples of old school swing jazz, and touching on moments of drum & bass. The song is completed by a multi-dimensional sax solo from Tru Thoughts’ Sly5thAve. Later, during interludes “Sparrow Creek” and “Supper,” sped up vocals give the sound of a younger Elbows addressing the listener from the past. Sycamore sees Elbows continue to create with his in-house group of collaborators, including fellow New York-based bassist/songwriter, Jachary. The EP serves as the next installment of material culled from multi-year, coast-spanning recording sessions in San Francisco and New York, during which Elbows amassed a body of work chronicling his foggy Bay Area upbringing.

In May 2017 Elbows released his debut EP, Corduroy, which received acclaim from Okayplayer, The Deli, Impose, and Earmilk, who flatteringly said, “Elbows is readying to take hip hop by storm.” Coinciding with the release he was interviewed by Andrew Jervis on the Bandcamp Weekly radio show alongside ATO’s Nick Hakim. Corduroy served as an encapsulating introduction to the sound of Elbows, with songs shifting from dusty boom bap beats to oafish 808s, and from jazzy guitar chops to cloudy synth beds, all the while revealing Schieble’s comfortably peculiar persona through witty and introspective songwriting. The EP was accompanied by a capsule collection of cassette tapes, socks, and a set of pins in collaboration with New York’s Pintrill, with each item representing a song from the project.

The Sycamore EP is available for preorder now, releasing January 26, 2018.

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Elbows Los Angeles, California

Elbows is a Bay Area-born songwriter, producer, and singer creating a warbling concoction of psychedelic pop, jazz, hip hop, funk and electronic.

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