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Pop music seems to be most fulfilling when it is able to convey the gravity of human desire and disappointment. If youthful confusion and self-doubt are a part of it, so much the better.

But few bands in recent years have been able to articulate this torrent of emotions with any sort of genuine sensitivity. Rather, we’ve endured a decade and a half of sullen indie rock, whiny emo, and clumsy nu-metal. Even as an exhilarating new-music scene unfolded in New York, one which seemed to draw on decidedly more complex and sophisticated influences, there was a gaping hole of bands that relied more on grace than abrasiveness.

Then, in the fall of 2001, amidst all the hype and fanfare in New York, Argentine singer Diego Garcia allied himself with drummer Kevin McAdams and a guitarist that simply goes by the name Mod, and just such a band, Elefant, was born. Bassist Jeff Berrall was enlisted shortly after, and the lineup was completed.

Certain fashionable post-punk influences clearly seemed to inform their music. But Elefant were a band apart from their New York comrades, many of whom were mining much more morose musical territory and flirting with anarchic imagery. Elefant, rather, were melancholy but romantic, dark but seductive.

“After college, I found myself living on the Lower East Side,” recalls Garcia, of the period of time that would set the often forlorn tone of their music, “with nobody really there for me. And New York City can be beautiful, but it can also really beat the sh*t out of you.”

Such trying times paid off, of course. Elefant caused enough of a stir to get signed to hip indie label Kemado. Their debut EP, tellingly titled Gallery Girl, exhibited a sound that was stark and raw, and brimming with youthful anxiousness.
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