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Future Elevators

Future Elevators

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Catalogue Number
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29
Number of Discs
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1
Format
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CD
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Import

Product Description

2016 release. Michael Shackelford first wrote down the words future and elevators a few years ago on a rough instrumental demo. The music never grew into a finished song, but that simple, surprisingly evocative phrase stuck. It's an apt phrase for one of Birmingham's most original musical acts. Shackelford-the group's founder, mainstay, and guiding creative force-is something of a pop confectioner who thinks up impossible sounds and makes them a reality. His self-titled debut as Future Elevators expertly mixes whimsy and gravity, the fantastical with the everyday. Even as he grounds his lyrics in real-world issues, he fills his songs with new and improbable combinations of familiar sounds: the jagged pastoral folk of Alabama Song, the Rube Goldberg blues riffs of Machine Maker, the retro-futuristic R&B of Modern World, the warm drone of the ten-minute instrumental closer Aphrodite. Shackelford spent a year piecing his debut album together. Recording with him was Lynn Bridges (Devendra Banhart/Dexateens) and the album was mixed by Darrell Thorp (Radiohead/Beck).

Track List   

  • 01. Rome on a Saturday
  • 02. Modern World
  • 03. Losing Sleep
  • 04. Just Another Day
  • 05. Alabama Song
  • 06. Machine Maker
  • 07. It Is What It Is
  • 08. Everything Everywhere
  • 09. Narcosis
  • 10. Aphrodite

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