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| Elastic Summer: Elastic Summer EP, 4 tracks |
Assumed Genre
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Pop, Pop rock
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Album
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Elastic Summer EP
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Label
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None
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Bandcamp Link
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Vocals
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Rebecca Arrango
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Guitar
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Joe Schumacher
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Drums
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Michael Whalen
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Bassist
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Bryan Percivall
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Elastic Summer is a
great band from New York with a summery sound I've been enjoying this June. I
stumbled upon this band on youtube doing a Strokes cover song. A very good
one, too.
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| The Band: Rebecca, Joe, Michael, and Bryan |
The percussion
choice makes me feel like I'm on an island listening to a local band. Snaps and
steel drums successfully compliment the compositions.
The lyrics in all
songs are absolutely wonderful through great use of figurative language like
alliteration, assonance, and consonance. There's a lot of imagery in the
lyrics, too. Here are SOME of my favorite lyrics to say because I love how they
roll of my tongue.
"hurry like a
hurricane" - "Disaster"
"coconuts and
butter and black beans" - "Coconuts"
"sudden drizzle
drops in my sugar spoon" - "June Gloom"
And of course, the
lead singer Rebecca Arrango sings mellifluously. The quivers when she holds
notes make her voice unique. Other singers do the same, but I think she's one
of the few who pulls it off.
Unfortunately, I
don't think Elastic Summer is still together. I did some research and found out
that Arrango is editor for the LA Canvas. (http://www.lacanvas.com/).