Member Since: 9/2/2004
Band Website: elamusic.net
Band Members: Contact:Label - [email protected]
Booking - Shawn Krueger / Microindie Booking ([email protected])
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Sounds Like:"Caperton is beautifully restrained and earnest, often contemplative and quiet, and Leggett's groovy beats and Tate's ethereal keyboards lend the band a dreamy, dance-y, new-wave sound. In fact, the band goes beyond the sum of its supergroup parts, and often sounds like a collaboration of something much larger." - Molly Preismeyer, City Pages
"The end result was an intoxicating hybrid, a prickly post-rock outfit with serious groove in its pants. Caperton's lyrical pen is similarly deft throughout Real Blood, crafting a dark world of paranoia and displacement occasionally tempered by glimpses of light." - Nathan Dean, Pulse Twin Cities
"True story: The new CDs by the Shins and Ela were both at the top of my listening pile last week, and during one daydreaming/guitar-basking moment, I lost track of which one was on. Blame it on a caffeine shortage, but that Ela disc -- "Real Blood on Fake Trees," which lands this week on local indie-rock label du jour Afternoon Records -- really is full of immaculate, carefully crafted sonic epics akin to the stuff that made the New Mexico indie-rockers famous." - Chris Reimenschnider, Star Tribune
"Led by Bill Caperton and Knol Tate (who are also key members of Askeleton) and backed by Heiruspecs' moonlighting rhythm section, Ela's new disc, "Real Blood on Fake Trees," is a deliberate and carefully considered work that already sounds like it'll end up on a few best-of-2007 lists."
-Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press
"6 out of 6 pitchforks!" - DIW Magazine (issue 19)
"Stapled to Air is an alluring musical hybrid, blending jagged electric guitar shards and occasional blood curdling yelps with limber bass lines and swingin drum fills." -Rob Van Alstyne, Pulse of the Twin Cities 2004
"Stapled to Air is simply a nine-song juggernaut of smart songwriting and poignant lyricism with a result so contemplative that its tough not to become completely involved in it." -Kyle Undem, 30 Music 2004
Record Label: Afternoon Records (now), Third Earth Music (then)
Type of Label: Indie