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There’s not much time left to wait until the first Mini-LP from AMOR BUTANO, “Ultravioleta”, which is being released in September as part of our “New Adventures In Pop” collection. But the Valencian trio has decided to make a soundtrack for our summer, and they are giving us a previously unreleased track that will not be included on the album, but that has their fresh, immediate sound, and looks clearly and directly at the dance floor, with a certain escapist spirit.

“CDO” tells a short story: our protagonists improvise a trip with their friends (to Cangas de Onís – Asturias), to get away from the busy city, to try to get a break from the noise and find themselves a quiet spot. Without meaning to, they find a slice of paradise that they love, and it is one of those unforgettable days that makes the whole summer, making memories and experiencing an explosion of nostalgia when they have to go back home, while they “paint everything silver” in a very special reference to FAMILY’s “La Noche Inventada”, which they also share a connection with in their dreamy and precious spirit.

Eighties synthesizers, drum kits with deep echoes, speed, hedonism and so much youth. AMOR BUTANO invite us to take a special and once in a lifetime trip with them with their ultra-catchy choruses and their fantastic melodies.

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With “Domingos”, an important stage of Soleá Morente’s career comes to a close – the stage of her album “Aurora Y Enrique”. It is a special and inimitable album with a unique trajectory and it is one-of-a-kind on the music scene. For the occasion, we are releasing a Digital Single that comes with a major gift. We opened this singular period with a precious music video by Juanma Carrillo, “Iba A Decírtelo”, followed by the gorgeous introspection that Jonás Trueba showed us with that special audiovisual work where we got to share that moment when Soleá first showed her mother the songs that were included on the album, and that third music video with her sister Estrella, also directed by Juanma Carrillo. And now the circle is closing with a music video directed by none other than Isaki Lacuesta.

Isaki Lacuesta is without a doubt one of the most important Spanish filmmakers right now. He has directed ten feature-length films, the most recent of which, “One Year, One Night” won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin Festival and will be released this coming fall in theaters in Spain. Based on the terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris, the movie is also the cinematic debut of C. TANGANA. Among other awards and recognitions, there are two noteworthy Golden Shells from San Sebastian, for “The Double” and “Between Two Waters” (a continu [ Read more ]

After hearing LISASINSON’s renewed sound with the new era that their previous single, “No Sé Muy Bien”, opened, the group from Valencia is back with another big hit, one that makes you want to immediately sing along, where pop overwhelmingly triumphs. “Canción De Entretiempo” opens the path to tenderness, to poetry, and the most appealing costumbrismo, with a solid, agile, nervous sound with small echoes of post-punk (that bass) and, once again, with stratospheric choruses. LISASINSON’s concerts are for singing non-stop, and these new songs take it to the next level, both for volume and for the urge to dance. Danceable, so ephemeral that it needs to played on a loop, with those guitars with the delay that are so well recorded by Carlos Hernández (CAROLINA DURANTE, AXOLOTES MEXICANOS, AIKO EL GRUPO, TRIÁNGULO DE AMOR BIZARRO), and melodies that really hit the mark.

And Miguel Yubero is in charge, once again, of finishing off this Digital Single with a video that makes that “Canción De Entretiempo” (song for between seasons) an exercise in contrasts and textures: hot and cold, day and night, blues and oranges. And our protagonists giving life to one of those songs that hits deep, enjoying themselves while they sing and play, making us feel their love of life, the urgency to enjoy every second. These two singles so far from LISASINSON – just wow. And you don’t even kno [ Read more ]

After that surprising “Xiki Yokse” they made themselves known with, Dani, Juanjo and Andrea are back from Valdavida (León), with a new song, where they lay out their solid lyrics full of self-confident ease, and a very energetic exercise in punk-pop. “Mi Crush Del Autobús” sounds like a hit from the title alone, and as if we could expect anything less, it talks about that strange situation that is both exciting and uncomfortable, when two people’s eyes meet on the bus and it seems like they could be something more than just two strangers. And it does it with freshness, ease, good rhythms and a certain acerbic tone. And the marvelous chorus, hyper-melodic, addictive. And that’s what we see in the video directed by Santi Capuz, where our protagonists ride the city bus to the rhythm of the song, while evoking that special moment. The single is produced, mixed and mastered by LEFTEE, from the Valencian Toxic Pop collective, who has been very prolific and inspired lately. The cover art, once again, is by Olaya (AXOLOTES MEXICANOS), showing off how well she moves in these grounds, beyond composing and performing.

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“Think I Heard A Rumour” gave us a collaboration full of magic and chemistry. Joe Moore (THE YEARNING, THE PERFECT KISS, Lia Pamina, JULIE ET JOE) brought the music, and Cristina Quesada brought the inspiration and her sweet, melodic voice. And now, once again, this duo is back to sowing the seeds in prolific fields full of unthinkable hits. And if on that album we found a songbook full of great techno-pop and disco hits with eighties airs, this new work is a total tribute to the Italo Disco sound, that artists like Giorgio Moroder, SAVAGE, HIPNOSIS, Gazebo, ROFO, CYBER PEOPLE, Silver Pozzoli, Ryan Paris and so many others sent out into the world in the seventies and eighties. But what does this meancategoría It means the dance floor is spilling over, the lights are flashing, the vocoder is smoking and there is an explosion of epic melodies full of nostalgia.

Mixing English, Spanish and Italian, “Dentro Al Tuo Sogno” alternates the roboticized voices and stellar motifs of “Why Don’t You Call Mecategoría” and “Ya Nada Es Igual”, with dreamy ambiances, the kind we get excited about, like those on “Take Me In (To Let Me Go)” and “Italia” (here in its Italian version). The mysterious ambiance of “Primavera”, “Oh Johnny” and “The Only One” (which sometimes even takes us to our beloved LIO) open into luminous choruses. And [ Read more ]

About a year ago, we released the eponymous album from COUR DE RÉCRÉ as part of our New Adventures In Pop collection, and we were just enamored with the freshness and ease of Quentin, Stan and Chloé and their synthesized electronic pop with francophone legacies. That album closed with the song, “À L’ombre D’une Jeune Fille En Pierre”, a track that begins with a bucolic, melancholy melody and ends up mutating into an exquisite exercise in disco-funk, guided by Chloé’s delicate voice. It tells the story of a girl who falls in love with a statue, for the simple fact that it will never be able to return her love. This is reflected in the video that is being released along with this single, where in the first part we see Chloé in a garden with the starring statue, and then it jumps to a nighttime ambiance the better represents the darkest desires.

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Everything is a lie. The immediacy. The smiles on Instagram. Happiness as the right choice. It’s all fake. We are tormented by our doubts, our fears. That’s why listening to INTERROGACIÓN AMOR is like putting some drops in your eyes, taking of your glasses, and letting your eyes go out of focus. Carlos and Javier’s youth, their clairvoyance, is, let’s just say it, insulting. “cómo un ángel podría romper mi corazón”, their new album, and the first with their new line-up as a duo, works on so many levels. Like a winding, abstract path between musical styles, some kind of post-modern treaty on sound, capable of passing for folk, noise, avant-garde, trip-hop, jungle, digicore, synth-pop or punk, without even blinking. It also works as a poetic exercise with a wide-open heart, with no prejudices, powerful and rough around the edges, full of unwholesome irony and unforgettable lines. But probably the most attractive thing is its slippery quality. INTERROGACIÓN AMOR inhabit the darkness with an unsettling ease, breaking stereotypes almost without meaning to, creating a universe that wins you over with its shadows, its unknowns, the way it makes the darkness a hypnotic space, disturbing and comfortable at the same time.

The starting point: “nadie me dijo que estaba sangrando”. Somewhere between the sound of Cherry Red’s first releases, avant-garde and spoken word. The [ Read more ]

We were just discovering what Míriam was capable of in her solo career as LABORDE, beyond LISASINSON, when she released her third single with a double A-side where she began to show us her collaboration with the Toxic Pop collective – specifically with CIBERCHICO, LEFTEE and RARE. One of these collaborations was “No Te Vayas Aún”, a playful, super fun and tremendously clever song. From there, it has all been big news, inimitable songs and noteworthy surprises. And now this new release is here and our heads are spinning. Because LABORDE is re-releasing “No Te Vayas Aún” in a new, barely recognizable version. With just one guitar, her voice and subtle cushions of effects with her own vocal lines. This time, TURIAN BOY was in charge of strengthening something we barely knew to make out in the first version: the pain and sadness. The video, directed by Miguel Yubero, places this aspect at the forefront: night-time, at a lost bus stop that looks like it’s in the middle of nowhere, with the bus stop light as the only lighting, Míriam pulls out her guitar and sings the song – pure bare emotions. This release helps build up an artist who until now we have barely been able to measure up in the LABORDE songbook and confirms her as a songwriter and (even more) multi-faceted performer with so much to say, and so many tools on hand to excite us.

PRODUCED, MIXED and MASTERED by TURIAN BOY

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With their first Mini-LP, “Disforia”, NEVVER made the first move in 2019. Their music, mixing post-punk, shoegazing and trap, opened a world of possibilities for a sound that was almost completely unheard of at the time. The way their songs dampened the urban genre with melancholy, contained their rage and was filled with poetry (establishing an invisible connection to the great Saul Williams), established a before and after for a group that was destined to be talked about endlessly in the most specialized circles. But far from settling down with a style that was already cutting edge and with so much to offer, they take a new leap with their new album. With assistance on production from LEFTEE and RARE (from Valencia’s Toxic Pop collective), they have made their first full length, “999”, with an eye on the dance floor, blowing it up with techno-pop or even dream-house, holding on to that strange dialogue between rage and melancholy, their poetic breath, their capacity to evoke forgotten, mistreated neighborhoods. We have to ask again: have you ever heard anything like ití

And if you haven’t, listen to “Hacemos El Amor Con La Ropa Puesta”. Echoes of Detroit and Berlin. And instrumental, at that. It is a total statement of intentions, proof that they can’t be boxed in and won’t follow the beaten path. “999” was born of the pandemic and distance, and despite that sounds closer than ever. It gets clos [ Read more ]

INTERROGACIÓN AMOR have something indescribable. Fascinating. Each of the songs we have heard from the new album comes from different musical parameters, but all hide something dark, mysterious, something that makes listening to them a tremendously attractive challenge, something almost sick. “una manera perfecta de morir”, the third single from the incipient “cómo un ángel podría romper mi corazón”, begins somewhere between whiny folk and trip-hop, between BECK, PORTISHEAD, UNKLE and SPOON, to slice through the shadows alongside THE XX. It is simultaneously a poetic and disturbing journey, somewhere between love and death, with a tragic spirit and hazy structure, maintaining a pop essence from the shadows, sliding between styles almost unconsciously. With outstanding production work by DJ HATER, that “Que si te tiras me tiro / Vas al infierno y te sigo” (If you throw yourself off I throw myself off / You go to hell and I follow)penetrates like a mantra. And we are just trying to shed some light, to find some answers, between goosebumps and cold sweats. But there are questions it is best to never answer. We’re sticking with the interrogation. [ Read more ]

PIPIOLAS keep on surprising us. After that wide, exquisite collection of references they have shown us with their first songs, everyone would have thought that Paula and Adriana would make the leap with a carefully selected cover, that would make hard-core music lovers’ most exclusive dreams come true. But they’re not doing any of that. They wanted a cover. They thought, maybe from “Lizzie McGuire”. But they didn’t know which song. And one day, Albanta San Román (actress, writer and content creator), their friend, we could even almost say the third member of PIPIOLAS, was repeatedly humming “What Dreams Are Made Of”, the song from the “Lizzie McGuire” movie. And that’s when they knew. They wanted to sing from their happy childhood, and to others who had lived through it the same way, who had gone through school to the beat of Disney and the new millennium. And they gave it a powerful disco house base, and translated the lyrics to Spanish, and sang it with all their hearts. A guilty pleasurecategoría An incredible hit to dance to non-stop.

TRACKLIST: 01 What Dreams Are Made Of

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We are just crazy about rebe. If “solo pasiones…” already had us completely hypnotized, confirming her status as a pioneer and rara avis of outer-space erotic pop, now she is snapping us to attention with a straight shot to the heart. “Marisol” begins with a deformed, filtered cover of the classic pasodoble “El Gato Montés”, authentic early XX century vibes oozing out of every note. And then the song takes off: where before rebe sounded silky, here she sounds capricious, crazed, unpredictable; the song flirty, playful, electronic pop; they lyrics bloody, shameless, passionate, painful. Absolutely radical bizarre pop and at the same time dazzling, seductive, highly catchy and addictive. Because rebe inhabits unoccupied territories, even if we think that everything has already been done. It would make Susana Estrada sound elegant, CAMELA sound delicate, LAS CHUCHES seem as exquisite as Cecilia. She would make the town fair open-air concerts sound like delicatessen pop.

For this single, more danceable than the previous ones, she has been lucky enough to work on the concept with OTRO (Aaron Morris) and have Lorenzo Matellán contribute on the mastering. The song sticks in the memory instantly, euphorically dramatic, marvelously great. Because that’s what we’re talking about, isn’t ití

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It’s so great to be able to discover a group bit by bit, figuring out who the artists are, learning the ins and outs of their sound, of their stage presence, of their style! And one of the most beautiful things for Elefant Records to discover in the last few months has been BUBBLE TEA AND CIGARETTES, the duo formed by Andi and Kat. This process reached its peak a few weeks ago, in their first concerts in Madrid, Zaragoza and Barcelona, where the duo showed off their immense melancholy, their unequaled beauty, how exciting their music – with connections to bands like MAZZY STAR, COCTEAU TWINS, BEACH HOUSE, THE XX, GALAXIE 500 and CIGARETTES AFTER SEX – is. And a new peak is coming, because after summer they will release their first album, “There’s Nothing But Pleasure”. To start getting ready, we are bringing you this new single, “Leap”. It is a great example of their sound: fifties echoes, slide guitars, analog keyboard drones, arpeggios swollen with delays, hyper-precious melodies. This is what heartbreak sounds like.

And once again they show us that their music videos are absolutely marvelous. Directed by Davis Chang, “Leap” is a video like few others these days. It tells the story of mourning, of the hell it is to lose someone who used to be by your side, filmed with images that go from warm to cold, from beauty to pain. Amazing. And with the new song from Andi and Kat, it is emotion made art.

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We are slowly discovering the huge surprise called PIPIOLAS that has completely dazzled us. We had already given you a glimpse with “Narciso”, “Club de los 27” and “Un poco triste :(“, songs that play with very diverse parameters and that make it more than clear that Paula and Adriana have something very special to offer us and have so much to say. And this is all confirmed with “Domingo raro”. We fall in love right from the very start: “Tengo un abrigo de piel que heredé / Un vinilo de Miguel Bosé / Y un amor caducado / Tengo hecho caldo y café / Tengo un apellido sin nombre / Yo tengo los hijos sin pasaporte / Tengo un invierno borrado / Tengo prisa por volverte a ver” (I have a hand-me-down fur coat / I have a Miguel Bosé vinyl album / And a love that has expired / I have coffee and broth ready / I have a last name without a first / I have kids without passports / I have a forgotten winter / I have to see you again soon). The delicacy and sound of FAMILY and VAINICA DOBLE, the excited imagination and fun rhythms. And like “Common People”, the song explodes with euphoria while still working the same dynamic, while it draws that strange quotidian fresco, in the style inherited from Gloria Fuertes and Cecilia. An absolute anthem, marvelous, that also includes the collaboration of Bego, which is to say, Begoña Vargas, the actress known for playing Roberta in “La Otr [ Read more ]

If just a few weeks ago we were discovering new songs by Joe Moore for Cristina Quesada on the “Primavera” single, this new single, “The Only One”, confirms that the next album from our Pineapple Princess (“Dentro Al Tuo Sogno”, out in June) will be totally in the key of Italo disco. Fat bass, frequency-saturated keyboards, cushions of sound as thick as polyurethane and galloping eighties stylings to work us up to the maximum. This song evokes the greats of this sound like Katy Gray, SAVAGE and Gazebo, and it is the star of a single that comes with two huge gifts. The first is a previously unreleased track that will not be included on this album, “Love Transmission”, a new exercise where the bass once again carries the lead vocals, with explosive strength that takes us to a meeting point between the sweetness of Rose and the out of this world amazement of Giorgio Moroder and CYBER PEOPLE. Darker and more porous, but just as evocative. And the second is a video by Daniel Cuenca which captures the spirit perfectly: neon lights, sparkling dresses, dancing and night-time. Why not say it – it’s a personal look at the “Flashdance” spirit. All this to open the door for an album that promises endless nights of pleasure and dreaminess, capable of mixing perspiration, fantasy and happiness.

TRACKLIST: 01 The Only One  02 Love Transmission

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