ELF POWER
Walking With the Beggar Boys (Orange Twin Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This was a hard album for me to get into, not because it was bad, but because I was so in love with the "old" Elf Power that I was a little disappointed in the direction this one seemed to be heading. Where Elf Power previously came across as happy surreal parade music, this is darker, a little more like traditional rock, with gloomy imagery and less of the supernatural quality of some of their previous work. However, after a couple of listens, I have decided this is a great album despite not holding to the old Elf Power formula, just a little sadder and more bitter, as if the old Elf Power had just found out that their dog had been hit by a car and sat down and wrote a bunch about how it made them feel.

© 2004 - Holly Day