Los Angeles based (from Camden / London England) Elliot James aka Elliot James Mulhern crafts some trippy sounds, pop indie, dream pop, blendo pop, I am not sure what to call it but it pulls you in and then distracts you with evocative interruptions further pulling you in more. Listen to the his EP "Deep Fondness Call Centre" is more than a "listening" experience. The intro track Blissful Everytime coaxes us into the second track, When Morning Comes which is a lush, dreamscape or hypnosis or some sort, it feels part Thom Yorkian and part pop radio unabashedly shape shifting itself and our emotions. The track Deep (Deeply Fond) is a bouncy pop love affair with sort of surf pop drums co-existing with sci-fi arpeggios, surprising and time transportive and then to that evocative interruption I mentioned earlier (you will see). Some of the tracks feel retro sci-fi in the sense that you hear coins dropping in those now antiquated phone booths (do they even exist anymore?). The track Normal is divergently sweet in a straight forward way, a telephone call to someone you love (maybe) from that relic phone booth. Nowhere Too sucks you out of the dream by feeling more like a busker dinking around or composing on the fly. It is raw with stuttered mistakes, imperfect, maybe intentionally.
With "Deep Fondness Call Centre", Elliot James has created an odd gem here, one that keeps you transfixed at the sparkles the entire time.
Elliot James, Elliot James Mulhern, composer, singer- songwriter, London, Los Angeles, experimental indie, song scapes, escapist pop, anti-pop, blendo pop
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Elliot James, Elliot James Mulhern, composer, singer- songwriter, London, Los Angeles, experimental indie, song scapes, escapist pop, anti-pop, blendo pop
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