{"id":47311,"date":"2016-07-09T19:25:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=47311"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:38:48","slug":"elvis-depressedly-holo-pleasures-california-dreamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/07\/09\/elvis-depressedly-holo-pleasures-california-dreamin\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Depressedly: Holo Pleasures \/ California Dreamin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47340 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RFC141-600-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"RFC141-600\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Mathew Lee Cothran and Delany Mills hide\u00a0delicate, permeable lo-fi indie rock\u00a0and small moments of relief behind the moniker\u00a0Elvis Depressedly. Just as in past releases from this Asheville, N.C.-based group, a hazy crackle lays thick over every sound of\u00a0the double EP <em>Holo Pleasures \/ California Dreamin&#8217;.\u00a0<\/em>This shrouded sound is easy to hide inside, easy to wrap up with melancholy, but Cothran and Mills create a bright sound despite the style and content.<\/p>\n<p><em>Holo Pleasures<\/em>, released in early 2013, makes up the first half of the 12 track release, and June 2016 release\u00a0<em>California Dreamin&#8217;<\/em> the second. The tracks come from the same session despite the three-year gap in release dates. It may seem nonsensical, but once you listen through you may realize\u00a0there is a distinction in the companion EPs.\u00a0Cothran and Mills have said the\u00a0<em>California Dreamin&#8217;\u00a0<\/em> EP bridges a gap between\u00a0<em>Holo Pleasures<\/em> and the groups recent LP\u00a0<em>New Alhambra.\u00a0<\/em>The 2015 release leans towards folk-influenced sounds and a gentle mix of Elvis Depressedly&#8217;s lo-fi rock sound with\u00a0dialed\u00a0down haze on the synthesizers and vocodors. <em>California Dreamin&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>continues this killer sunny groove, yet still fits right in with the entire session recording.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its patchwork creation story,\u00a0<em>Holo Pleasures \/ California Dreamin&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>settles in perfectly alongside\u00a0the group&#8217;s discography. Cothran sings shamelessly of drug problems, just as he does of the tunnel vision of love oppressive structural violence, with an intimacy that is only warmed by the crispy sound of Elvis Depressedly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: Coma Cinema, Frankie Cosmos, Car Seat Headrest, Alex G, Juan Wauters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 9 (Cop Poet), 6 (Thinning Out), 7 (Angel Cum Clean), 3 (Inside You), Up In The Air (12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: 1 (Okay), 4 (Teeth), 5 (Weird Honey),\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Kayci Lineberger on 07\/07\/2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathew Lee Cothran and Delany Mills hide\u00a0delicate, permeable lo-fi indie rock\u00a0and small moments of relief behind the moniker\u00a0Elvis Depressedly. Just as in past releases from this Asheville, N.C.-based group, a hazy crackle lays thick over every sound of\u00a0the double EP Holo Pleasures \/ California Dreamin&#8217;.\u00a0This shrouded sound is easy to hide inside, easy to wrap up with melancholy, but Cothran and Mills create a bright sound despite the style and content. Holo Pleasures, released in early 2013, makes up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"featured_media":47340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[3092,5097,3367],"class_list":["post-47311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-elvis-depressedly","tag-holo-pleasures-california-dreamin","tag-rock-rotation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RFC141-600-e1467756082298.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}