For a band that is named after a Stone Roses song, Elephant Stone might not be the type of group that one might assume, especially since it is so easy to be typecast in the current wave of \u201880s comeback in which almost every band seems like an offshoot of some other act. There is in fact absolutely nothing similar between The Stone Roses and this Montreal-based outfit, except for the connection that each band has with the \u201860s.<\/p>\n
That decade is tattooed in Elephant Stone\u2019s DNA, and The Three Poisons<\/i> provides one hell of a ride through this musical era. Of all the albums trying to recreate the \u201860s, this is probably one of the most groovy and vibrant.<\/p>\n
Elephant Stone classifies themselves as spearheading the \u201cHindie-Rock movement,\u201d defined by the band as \u201cthe ability of weaving together rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, Hindustani classical, and catchy-as-all-hell pop,\u201d which couldn\u2019t be more accurate of a description of their music. Band frontman Rishi Dhir is a sitar player, and the album has a good share of sitar playing \u2013 not to mention that it is rife with Indian themes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But The Three Poisons<\/i> isn\u2019t some sort of a hideous mishmash of Indian classical and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. This album approaches this strange marriage of the two diametrically opposite musical styles with the same degree of class and refinement as Kula Shaker and their path-breaking effort K <\/i>in particular, and it\u2019s a band that Elephant Stone has a strong stylistic resemblance to.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
As much as The Three Poisons<\/i> is a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll album, it also aspires to be a pop album \u2013 which it is, and a great one, too, with its \u201ccatchy-as-all-hell\u201d songs. This is also because the band doesn\u2019t take themselves too seriously and tries to have fun with their music. This would explain the insane sitar playing on this album on tracks like \u201cMotherless Child\u201d and \u201cKnock You From Your Mountain,\u201d which might seem abhorrent to connoisseurs of Hindustani classical, but sounds so damn cool otherwise. <\/p>\n
It is this nonchalance of the band and the ease with which Dhir and his fellow bandmates pull it off that make you say \u201cWow! That\u2019s some kickass shit!\u201d Absolutely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":32228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9552],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-43981","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-elephant-stone","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43981"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43981"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}