2012-01-12
The Village Voice (interview & review)
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Elika's latest album, Always The Light revels in firefly-blinking electropulse, gushy woosh and the dusky Madonna-gone-indie melodies of vocalist Evagelia Maravelias. First taste "No One Gets Lost" hums like a choir of harmoniums teaming with a glitchy drum machine, deeply exploring themes of life and loss. The Village Voice |
2012-01-11
Earmilk (review & premiere)
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Always the Light is a compilation of ten glorious songs. Beginning with "Stay Beside Me" and ending with "A Year Alone", the album takes you on an emotional journey from their powerful sounds. Earmilk |
2011-10-22
The Pick and the Pen (interview)
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It’s a mindfuck. It’s our best work yet and will feature our most elaborate packaging ever... The Pick and the Pen |
2011-01-21
Balafonic (review)
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Snuggle Bunnies is a multi-genre album in the truest sense, ranging from danceable, bubbly, multi-layered electro to dreamy ambience and synth psychedelia. Balafonic |
2011-01-20
Norman Records (review)
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Gorgeous summery pop music, well crafted songs and ideas all welded together masterfully. 5 out of 5. Norman Records |
2010-12-30
Short and Sweet NYC (review)
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A sonic world that seems dark, but hopeful, packed with dimension, but without sounding too dense. Somewhere between shoegaze, indie and electronica vocals, Elika’s sound is as much art as it is straightforward. It’s easy to connect to the pain within the lyrics, but it’s just as likely that you’ll find yourself nodding along to the strong beat... Short and Sweet NYC |
2010-12-28
Actitudes Magazine (review)
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Enigmatic beauty that calls for inspiration and reflection; perfect to plunge into the sea of rhythms and let go... Actitudes Magazine |
2010-12-28
The Deli NYC (review)
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When it all comes crashing down, you are left to roll in the emotional feedback they create: a symbiotic tie making you wonder what is left when you've relied on someone else for everything. The Deli NYC |
2010-12-27
Berkeley Place (review)
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Wicked drumbeat loops and terrific vocals. Listen in the car and you might find yourself driving a lot smoother. If you close your eyes, you might even find yourself floating... Berkeley Place |
2010-12-26
The Culture of Me (review)
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Completely inspiring electronic rock/dream pop that is just as good as we remember the 1990's being growing up, Elika are back with a new effort called Snuggle Bunnies and the organic/synthetics at work on their lead track from it, "Summer", make us wish for consistent warm summer days and running through youthful memories of love, hope, dreams, and maybe even a little loss and heartbreak... The Culture of Me |
2010-12-25
A Strangely Isolated Place (review)
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New York’s finest vocal sets alight this new offering from Elika. Evagelia’s unique and loveable sound makes it an addictive record... A Strangely Isolated Place |
2010-12-25
Leonard's Lair (review)
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At their very best, ‘Death & Avalanches’ provides a successful blend of the electronic with the acoustic, ‘Seam’ cleverly augments breakbeats in to its smooth but darkly mysterious chorus, whilst the finale ’Tidal Wave’ is a gloriously grungy sugar rush... Leonard's Lair |
2010-12-25
NBT (review)
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This band digs deeper into the internal, mines hidden subtleties, waits patient for the dreaming to come to them, then with comfort and agitation in equal measures, sends that dreaming back out to greet us. NBT |
2008-09-13
XLR8R (review)
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Every musical note seems as carefully placed as a comma in a novel, and Maravelias' voice soars through a collection of intelligent lyrics mostly centered on lost love. Breakups are cruel, but damned if I don't want to have another one just so I can go home and put this album on repeat...
XLR8R Top 10 |
2008-09-12
Losing Today (review)
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"Trying Got Us Nowhere" has the unerring feel of being one of the understated finds of the year... Losing Today |
2008-09-10
The Blue Walrus (review)
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If "Trying Got Us Nowhere" were a painting, it would depict a richly-coloured Caribbean sunset over a beach of dancing tribal men – it’s beautiful, spiritual and utterly unforgettable... The Blue Walrus |
2008-09-10
Cyclic Defrost (review)
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What most intrigues me about them is the balance they strike between noisy or glitchy experimentalism and straight up pop... Cyclic Defrost Magazine |
2008-09-10
Sey Something (review)
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Elika is a Indie/Electronica duo from Brooklyn ready to score your film. I can picture each one of their tracks being used during a movie. Start with the intro going on a roller coaster of emotion right into a mellow ending. It's probably the one of the most solid albums this year... Sey Something |
2008-09-10
Indiessance (interview)
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We are both really confident about the kind of music that we are making... Indiessance |
2008-09-09
Sen Baltimore (review)
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The album is out-of-this-world in its layering of programming, field recordings, and guitars... Sen Baltimore |
2008-09-09
NJ.com (review)
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Fetching boy-girl electropop... NJ.com |
2008-09-07
Leonard's Lair (review)
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"Trying Got Us Nowhere" is a clever mixture of New Order-style basslines, often energetic electro/indie pop and strident female vocals... Leonard's Lair |
2008-09-05
Here Comes The Flood (review)
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The vocals rest on a soft bed made of electronics, a pretty nifty mix of live drums and programming with a quilt of jangling guitars. Listen to this with a lounging cat on your lap. You might end up doing a little purring yourself... Here Comes The Flood |
2008-09-04
Culture of Me (review)
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Spacey electronics, straight-ahead guitar rock and lovelorn female-fronted 80s synth-pop into a wonderful sound that's at once sugary sweet and get-out-of-my-head addictive... Culture of Me |
2008-09-03
Textura (review)
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"Let Down" scatters enough melodic hooks and tasty vocal counterpoint across its axe-generated squall to justify its status as a single... Textura |
2008-09-03
Stereobotic (review)
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It's almost scary how perfect this band is... Stereobotic |
2008-09-03
Sirens Sound (review)
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A solid shoegaze/space foundation with dreamy vocals and sudden distortion waves... Sirens Sound |
2008-09-03
Subdrive (review)
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Evagelia's wonderfully lush vocals and the minimal soundscape with crunching guitars is a great sound to just listen and let your mind flow to... Subdrive |
2008-09-03
Welikeit.indie (review)
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I just can't get enough of Eva's beautiful voice! Welikeit.indie |
2008-09-03
Culture Spill (review)
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This is no retro band; Elika’s vision is far more independent than derivative... Culture Spill |
2008-09-03
Babble and Beat (review)
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"The Whip" is insanely catchy and has a great beat. It's a seductive track that builds, and one that is surely to be embedded in my head for several weeks... Babble and Beat |
2008-09-03
Local Vertical (review)
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"They'll Hate Us" will take you into another realm of shoegaze consciousness... Local Vertical |
2008-09-03
Things I Think About Music (review)
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Layers of guitars and keyboards make wonderfully lush sonic landscapes... Things I Think About Music |