Listen to Elle’s blistering debut EP, featuring members of Loma Prieta and Beau Navire
While it’s often looked at with nose upturned, over the past few years bands that fall into the “screamo” category have been making some of the most progressive aggressive music out there. It’s fitting that Elle, a new band out of California’s Bay Area, is a collection of some of the best, featuring members of Loma Prieta, Beau Navire, and Yearbooks all working together to offer a melodic update on the sound they’ve all but perfected.
Today, The A.V. Club is streaming all of Elle’s five-song, self-titled debut ahead of its digital release tomorrow, with a vinyl release coming in the spring of 2017 on Conditions Records. Each of these five songs offers something new from a band made up of musicians not content to repeat the same thing twice. “Mockingbirds” is easily the catchiest creation any of Elle’s members have committed to tape, and the swaggering “Pulse” is something the band describes as “Soul-punk.” Give the entire thing a listen below, and read a quote from the band about the values informing “Pulse,” and the EP as a whole.