There is so much soul-pleasingly phenomenal heavy blues
doing its best to pull today into the 1970s around in today’s music scene, that for
the second EP from Melbourne, Australia’s, The Ivory Elephant, to stand out
from the crowd, shows this record for the exceptional work that it is. Much
where Child stood out last year with their exceptional self-titled record (both bands are from the
same place), this three piece match their laid back, knee-drooping thick
riffs, drenched in an aged old whiskey swagger, letting your eyes close as the
waves of soulful psychedelic heaviness encompass you.
There is more tempo to Time Here Is Up than compared to
Child however as the stronger percussion begins with ‘Save My Soul’ fighting the weary
vocals of Trent Sterling gliding the song down its story-telling path. It’s
this type of heavy psych blues that flows into you like a cloud of hypnotic dust,
caressing your soul, so that the guitar riffs of ‘Devil’s Waiting For Me’
enrapture your bones, Hendrix-style.
Whether it’s the heavier numbers, or the gloriously laid
back meanderings of ‘Killing’, a modern day Muddy Waters picking away at the strings
of your soul, The Ivory Elephant have created a masterful work of the blues
genre, hopefully not to be a hidden gem formuch longer.
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