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That Someone

from Above the Water by Elk City

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Review from The Big Takeover by Dave Franklin -
"The best music is that which isn’t easily summed up. Not in the small generic soundbites that seem to satisfy today’s music consumer, anyway. So when I describe Elk City as an amalgam of the 70’s New York punk scene that spawned the ragged art-rock of Patti Smith, The Velvets before that, and then later the pop-rock sophistication of Blondie, influenced by PJ Harvey’s subversive but beguiling approach to pop, the extrapolation of 60s folk into a more technologically enlightened age, and no small amount of more recent alt-rock dream scaping only because there is so much to convey in the music. Why use three words when dozens will do? Well, it is the only way to make a literary dent in what is happening here.

And that is just where they are today. Over the last two decades, five albums and a host of other releases, Elk City, have offered an ever-evolving sound, as it should be. Music should be made at the moment, perhaps never faithfully repeated, sometimes getting close to the original, at other times surpassing it, but never repeating it. Why would you strive to be a facsimile of your previous self when you can discover who you will be tomorrow?

And the icing on the cake is the fantastic video accompanying “That Someone”. It’s a blend of pin-point visual clarity and out-of-focus haze. It is dark and abstract, a collage of colliding images. It walks a fine line between pop and a hard place, intensity and accessibility, oddness and beauty.

Just like Elk City’s music!"

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LYRICS:

I know where I need to bend my head
Nobody’s fashion gets me way ahead
Slide of hand
I know I can believe
One kiss in my pocket
I know I can be

Flying overhead when I didn’t have a plane
I knew just enough
I did not go insane
I went so high
Lost my soul
I went so high
Lost my cell phone

Oh, here comes that someone
Oh, here comes that someone

A little velvet plane I could not reach
A little out of touch
Enough to break free
How did I know to get so high
When nobody ever tried to stop (me)

Oh, here comes that someone

Change in me
We’re still alive

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from Above the Water, track released August 31, 2022

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Elk City Montclair, New Jersey

"Elk City’s cool and elegant sound draws on 1980s “dream pop” and bits of 1960s folk-rock."
- The New York Times 

"Elk City is one of NYC's best kept secrets; they'll appeal to fans of the Clientele, Camera Obscura and, seriously, Fleetwood Mac."
- L Magazine 

"LoBue is a firebrand - soft and gentle one minute, raising the hairs on your neck the next."
- PopMatters ... more

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