Release Date: 06 July 2018
Label: Little Record Company
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457871427
Genres: Rock Alternative
Release Date: 29 June 2018
Label: Little Record Company
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457871410
Genres: Rock Alternative
Description
Pappas talent is so far-reaching it's nothing short of staggering. The writing and instrumentation are always expertly done and the singing makes most contemporary artists look like amateurs. - Peter Jesperson (Twin-Tone founder) The brilliance of the songs on Elle Belle's No Signal is that each one is evocative of a multitude of 80's and 90's artists from Prince to Bruce Springsteen without ever succumbing to nostalgia in any way shape or form. Rather, by creating a breakup album about the disintegration of his relationship with America and its politics, songwriter Christopher Pappas has done something entirely new. Elle Belle has given us a collection of American anthems as beautiful as anything on Thunder Road, but with melodies and lyrics that are completely fresh and exciting. After the election I was pretty depressed recalls Pappas. Like most sane people, the 2016 election left him shellshocked. He spent that winter in NH, where he grew up, going over what went wrong. I started writing during that time and what came out felt like a break up song. That first song, which later became the titular track No Signal, acts as the thesis for the record and paints a dreary picture of two people growing apart: You and I on hard times / all around a slow divide / and there's no signal. The result is an album with a story that at times can feel cinematic - even the cover art - an incredibly close-up photo of a man (not Pappas) with nothing but a static T.V. in the background pangs of loneliness and looks like a still from a movie. I wouldn't call it a concept record, as that idea has particular baggage, but the songs do share a singular vision and narrative. Isolation. A great divide. No signal in, no signal out. No signal is a vibrant and evocative portrait of a bleak American landscape by one of the best undiscovered composers of our time.
Description
Pappas talent is so far-reaching it's nothing short of staggering. The writing and instrumentation are always expertly done and the singing makes most contemporary artists look like amateurs. - Peter Jesperson (Twin-Tone founder) The brilliance of the songs on Elle Belle's No Signal is that each one is evocative of a multitude of 80's and 90's artists from Prince to Bruce Springsteen without ever succumbing to nostalgia in any way shape or form. Rather, by creating a breakup album about the disintegration of his relationship with America and its politics, songwriter Christopher Pappas has done something entirely new. Elle Belle has given us a collection of American anthems as beautiful as anything on Thunder Road, but with melodies and lyrics that are completely fresh and exciting. After the election I was pretty depressed recalls Pappas. Like most sane people, the 2016 election left him shellshocked. He spent that winter in NH, where he grew up, going over what went wrong. I started writing during that time and what came out felt like a break up song. That first song, which later became the titular track No Signal, acts as the thesis for the record and paints a dreary picture of two people growing apart: You and I on hard times / all around a slow divide / and there's no signal. The result is an album with a story that at times can feel cinematic - even the cover art - an incredibly close-up photo of a man (not Pappas) with nothing but a static T.V. in the background pangs of loneliness and looks like a still from a movie. I wouldn't call it a concept record, as that idea has particular baggage, but the songs do share a singular vision and narrative. Isolation. A great divide. No signal in, no signal out. No signal is a vibrant and evocative portrait of a bleak American landscape by one of the best undiscovered composers of our time.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
The Squeegees
Heidecker & Wood
Rilo Kiley
Miracle Parade
Dallas Don Burnet
Elle Belle
Tom Waits
Artikal Sound System
Fake Palms
Charlie Reed
Bacchae
Alyssa Gengos
Greg Freeman
Blue Violet
