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Hills Like Elephants announced the release of their debut LP today after months in the studio with vintage drum machines, Moog plug-ins, an old school pump organ, and an “‘80s synthesizer with fans blowing in your face to cool it down,” says vox/keysman Sean Davenport.
“The idea was to make a keyboard album where the guitar is textural rather than the main drive of the song,” Davenport told the Reader last month.
A synth meets soul collection of lost love songs, The Endless Charade was recorded with Chris Hoffee at Chaos Records in Escondido and is set to be released on March 27 via Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis with a release party March 30 at Soda Bar. Cover art by Jon Kruger (River City).
“I didn’t want to do a Sea Change or Bon Iver thing, where the music matches the mood, which is sad,” says Davenport. “I wanted to keep it dancier. So the album is like a remix of the songs I started with. None of them sound like how they started.”
Hills Like Elephants is a solo project of ex-Gun Runner frontman Davenport, whose live lineup includes Andrew Armerding (River City) emulating synths with guitar and effects, former Gun Runner trapsman Carlos Ortiz, and guitar/bassist Danny Gallo.
“The album’s called The Endless Charade and from one end of the album to the other it shows you that as bad as it gets, it’s going to be OK, and you learn along the way. The games never stop - you have to learn how to play. It’s not spiteful. It’s more just if you can relate.”
Stream tracks from The Endless Charade.
Gallo, Armerding, Ortiz, Davenport.
Hills Like Elephants
March 1 - Bar Pink
March 30 - The Soda Bar - CD Release show
Hills Like Elephants announced the release of their debut LP today after months in the studio with vintage drum machines, Moog plug-ins, an old school pump organ, and an “‘80s synthesizer with fans blowing in your face to cool it down,” says vox/keysman Sean Davenport.
“The idea was to make a keyboard album where the guitar is textural rather than the main drive of the song,” Davenport told the Reader last month.
A synth meets soul collection of lost love songs, The Endless Charade was recorded with Chris Hoffee at Chaos Records in Escondido and is set to be released on March 27 via Requiemme Records/BMG Chrysalis with a release party March 30 at Soda Bar. Cover art by Jon Kruger (River City).
“I didn’t want to do a Sea Change or Bon Iver thing, where the music matches the mood, which is sad,” says Davenport. “I wanted to keep it dancier. So the album is like a remix of the songs I started with. None of them sound like how they started.”
Hills Like Elephants is a solo project of ex-Gun Runner frontman Davenport, whose live lineup includes Andrew Armerding (River City) emulating synths with guitar and effects, former Gun Runner trapsman Carlos Ortiz, and guitar/bassist Danny Gallo.
“The album’s called The Endless Charade and from one end of the album to the other it shows you that as bad as it gets, it’s going to be OK, and you learn along the way. The games never stop - you have to learn how to play. It’s not spiteful. It’s more just if you can relate.”
Stream tracks from The Endless Charade.
Gallo, Armerding, Ortiz, Davenport.
Hills Like Elephants
March 1 - Bar Pink
March 30 - The Soda Bar - CD Release show