The band Elephant Stone may be named after a Stone Roses song, and they do share that retro/fuzzy sound, but the band owes more to The Byrds or The New Pornographers than English underground. The Montreal band eschews arty “math” rock in favor of psychedelipop treates written by Rishi Dhir, formerly of The High Dials. At the same time, being that Dhir was trained in Indian Classical music, compositions like Duhn bring to mind The Beatles’ flirtations with the sitar.
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