★★★★★
On their fourth full-length album These Changing Skies, Elephant Revival find harmony. Bringing together five people with unique artistic ambitions--all who are songwriters, multi-instrumentalists and singers--sounds like a recipe for chaos. But, since forming in 2006, the ethereal folk quintet from Nederland, Colo., have managed to keep personal creativities from breeding dissonance. The group has grown even tighter, producing their most cohesive album yet...
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2013-10-11
★★★★★
Self-released Bonnie Paine--one of the saintly voices in the Colorado quintet Elephant Revival--has described the band's music as a healing therapy of sorts. The group has elaborated on that sentiment to produce this short EP. The first track "What's That?" declares that the album is truly alive and for the next six songs, the listener knows it to be true...
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2013-03-16
★★★★★
Self-released Bonnie Paine--one of the saintly voices in the Colorado quintet Elephant Revival--has described the band's music as a healing therapy of sorts. The group has elaborated on that sentiment to produce this short EP. The first track "What's That?" declares that the album is truly alive and for the next six songs, the listener knows it to be true...
- www.relix.com
2013-03-11
★★★★★
Elephant Revival Break in the Clouds (Nettwerk/Ruff Shod, 2011)
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2011-06-13
★★★★★
Ruff Shod Records Elephant Revival may hail from Nederland, Colo. and play a blend of stringed instruments, but that's where the band's comparisons to Yonder Mountain String Band end. The mellow songs on Break In the Clouds --the group's sophomore effort--fall far more in the freak-folk genre than the high energy of jamgrass or even the more traditional bluegrass genre...
- www.relix.com
2011-05-11