Hailing from Brighton, art rock four-piece Elandra has begun to send a ripple into the music industry, with press tastemakers taking note of their releases and audiences across their home city packing out their shoes. Fronted by Italian-born Paolo Siviero, the band meet at the crossroads of indie and psychedelia, inspired by Tame Impala, Radiohead, The Strokes, MGMT, and Empire of the Sun.
Now cementing their rising star status with their debut EP, the group have released a self-titled five-track. Bringing together each of the four singles the group have released since 2022, as well as the new single ‘I Don’t Know’, the band bring blends of plucky nostalgia, floating vocals and energised rhythms across both the percussion and instrumentation. Introducing synths for an added sense of haziness and sprinkling their guitars in a light but fuzzy distortion, the group embarked on a cross-genre journey, lost in time between the sounds of the ’60s and the sounds yet to come.
Paulo speaks on the lead single, “‘I Don’t Know’ is the song I’m the most excited to release. It basically summarises my life path serving the dichotomy between pursuing a dream (music career as an artist, seen as the freedom of the individual) or settling down for safety (9-5 job, seen as the slavery of a capitalistic and consumerist society). It’s the innerspeaker we all have while we’re in front of a computer, managing to push on between poor sleep habits, poor diets, and poor mental health. Thinking about trying to ‘make it’ to finally achieve freedom.”
Expanding on the EP, he adds, “This EP represents my first real achievement into trying hard basically to ‘make it’ as a professional music artist. The path is long still, but this showcases my love for songwriting, arranging and producing. I always try not to settle for the “good enough”, I strive for perfection even though sometimes this has blocked me in life from facing feedback and the real world.”
The EP is out now, check it out…
