Elika – Always the Light

Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 release from the Brooklyn duo consisting of multimedia artists Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach. Elika have quietly recorded and released a torrent of adventurous music since 2006, earning recognition the old fashioned way. Always the Light places catastrophic personal events into an ocean of complex programmed rhythms a la Lali Puna and M83, with an emphasis on honey-coated vocals and washes of distant, dreamy synths and guitars. Nowhere is this more evident than on album lead-off, the instantly hummable 'Stay Beside Me,' and the Curve-incarnate anthem 'No One Gets Lost.' Providing extra dimension to Always the Light, Elika explores more cavernous, ambient IDM-informed concepts.

1. Stay Beside Me
2. We Had It All
3. Waiting Room
4. Count Your Steps
5. All My Wishes
6. Never Touch the Sky
7. No One Gets Lost
8. You ; Me
9. Trials
10. A Year Alone

Label: Saint Marie

Catalog: 7

Genre: Rock