Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra
(Run for Cover Records – May 12, 2015)
(Alternative, Indie, Lo-Fi)
Review by Rob Bockman
Photo credit to Sam Ray
It’s been a banner year for Elvis Depressedly—recently signed to Boston’s Run for Cover Records, the duo of Mat Cothran and Delaney Mills have performed at SXSW 2015, relocated to our northern neighbor, and picked up national press. Likewise, it’s been a banner year for wrestling-influenced records, with New Alhambra packing a hell of a one-two punch with The Mountain Goats’ Beat the Champ. But where Champ was strident and celebratory, ripping off masks and crushing the pop, New Alhambra is more impressionistic, chopping and screwing old samples from wrestling matches, pitch-shifting and warping them until they match the drifting vibe of the album. It’s an album of impressions rather than victories, and all the more resonant for it. Continue reading
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