Elfin Saddle Devastates

180gLP INCLUDES ART PRINT POSTER + DL CODE!ELFIN SADDLE deepens its compositional and conceptual agenda on "Devastates", the band's third full-length album and its most urgent, ornate and impassioned work to date. The Montreal group, led by multi-instrumentalists Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie (who also share vocal duties), has always shown a profound engagement with issues of environmental sustainability and the emotional impact of economic/political ideologies that continually foreclose on the possibility of genuine, progressive renewal and redirection. The band's music-making - and the parallel art practice on display in Honda and McKenzie's installation and video work - investigates the tensions between nature and technology on multiple levels. With "Devastates", this is explicit in the lyrical narrative of the album as a whole and implicit in the band's use of found and re-purposed objects to create its sound wor...