Elevado

GA's avant-rock maestros Elevado have returned with a fourth album that blends psychedelic guitar lines with low-end dub bass and electronic drum beats. After some keyboard noise, the CD kicks off with "Song of a Purple Man" which rolls and lumbers like "Poptones" from PiL's "Second Edition" AKA "Metal Box". Then the title track teeters between early Police and some of the early '80s U.K. anarchist bands like Zounds, The Mob, or even AOS3...

Taking certain cues from the late-70s/early-80s intersection of post-punk, no-wave, cold-funk and Euro-electronica, while lyrically inspired by the events of today, Atlanta's woefully underrated Elevado mines a host of fantastic sources to come up with its intriguing, intense sound. The isolated dislocation of Joy Division, the shadowy angst of early Cure, the claustrophobic, sinuous and dubby Levene/Wobble days of PiL, and certainly Bowie (from any era) are among the many discernible...