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Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Label: Fiercely Indie (UK), This Quiet Army (Canada)
Website: www.myspace.com
Genre: Electronica
Formed in New York in 2005 by Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach, Elika describe their dreamy music as “blissed-out ambience with head-nodding beats that range from Downtempo to Trance to IDM.”
They mix spacey female vocals with gauzy, textured guitars; field recordings; and crisp drum programming to create incredibly visual songs with the atmosphere of childhood and layers of detail. Describing their influences, Eva and Brian mention Slowdive, Karen Carpenter, Boards of Canada, Nico, Squarepusher and Flying Saucer Attack.
“Elika from Brooklyn—an incredibly exciting, radical fusion of shoegaze and electronica elements.”
- Ulrich Schnauss
“These kids are so good, they could battle the sun.”
– Jason Martin
“Trying Got Us Nowhere has the unerring feel of being
one of the understated finds of the year.”
Mark Barton - Losing Today
“Every musical note seems as carefully placed as a
comma in a novel, and Maravelias’ voice soars through a
collection of intelligent lyrics centred on lost love.
Breakups are cruel, but damned if I don’t want to have
another one just so I can go home and put this album on
repeat.”
Jennifer Marston - XLR8R
“Let Down’ scatters enough melodic hooks and tasty
vocal counterpoint across its axe-generated squall to
justify its status as a single.”
Textura
