It’s a prophetic, vital message, and it’s wrapped in some of the best electronic and pop music of the year.
While the album is just arriving now, Ela has slowly seeded its message since April. That month’s “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong.” gets the message across in name alone, and its soft-focus rave beats that eventually explode à la Crystal Castles and Robert Smith’s “ ” provide that much-needed motivation to keep going. The song gradually becomes, to directly quote Ela’s longtime slogan, “bright music for dark times,” even ifAlso shining bright against the darkness of now:’s instrumental tracks, especially the ecstatic flurry of “N19 5NF.
Like Rushkoff, Ela consistently champions reclaiming the minutiae of daily interactions as forms of liberation. The Spanish-language track “el cielo no es de nadie” is a gloomy, cerebral vision of techno atop which Ela flips the common Spanish phrase “I’ll give you the sky” into the lyric “el cielo no es de nadie para dar,” which translates to “the sky is nobody’s to give.
Both “megapunk” and “el cielo no es de nadie” might not thump so forcefully if not for Ela’s first musical experiences. She got her start in the Colombian hardcore scene, where she became known as a formidable drummer during her teenage years. On, she maintains her punk, community-oriented ethos whether she strikes strongly, replaces guitars with synths or creates more introspective works.
Just downloaded from Bandcamp ela_minus , CAN'T Wait to put it on loop.
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