It’s been three years since Montreal’s Elephant Stone released an album — through frontman Rishi Dir was also busy with his psych led supergroup Mein — but are working on the follow-up to Ship of Fools as we speak. That won’t be out till 2020, but they do have a new single that finds the usually jangly band dipping a toe into heavy rock territory. “‘Land of Dead’ began with stoner-rock riff on the sitar; it was pretty quick to write,” Rishi tells us. “Lyrically, I knew it would be the dark centerpiece of a song suite. Working with my friend, and Mien bandmate, John Mark Lapham, we came up with the lyrics telling of a world devoid of empathy and burning skies. It’s tragic how life imitates art.” Crank it up: “Land of Dead” you can listen below.
Elephant Stone are playing Austin’s Levitation festival in November,
“Land Of Dead” (Elephants On Parade/Fuzz Club), out Friday September 20th,
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