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The Club’s adventure began with an exclusive single by our most international band, LE MANS, with a new cover by Spanish great artist Javier Aramburu which was the colophon to the most autumnal, grey side of the band. It was formed by two of the best songs in “Saudade”, their third LP: “Dry Martini” (with its blood-curdling lyric) and “Saudade” (the song). ST CHRISTOPHER, led by Glenn Melia and with albums released on Sarah Records and Vinyl Japan, gave us two songs of overflowing delicate, atmospherical pop, ragged and heartfelt, exclusive for this single. Before they changed their name to Jr and moved from Elefant to Acuarela, ELIMINATOR JR left us three songs in which they shifted from the noisy rage of their beginnings to a more experimental way. More eccentric than ever.
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On the second delivery we released two songs by ALLEN CLAPP, American singer-songwriter with stuff released by Minty Fresh, and who takes from timeless American pop the catchiest choruses. SPRING surprised everybody by declairing themselves fans of certain early eighties Spanish bands, and recorded covers by Golpes Bajos, Décima Víctima and Alaska y los Pegamoides in this highly-seeked collectors’ item. British band IVY came under the Elefant Records fold from the labels Sarah and Noisebox, with three restless songs of darkened pop, furious and heavenly at the same time.
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For our third delivery we called PO! again, the band leaded by Ruth’s delicious voice, who had already released a single on Elefant and to whom we´ve also released a complete compilation (“Past Perfect Tense”). This time they came back with three new songs of fragile, charming pop, introspective and emotional. POP RACE was a band formed by Johan and Karolina from the truly lovable Club 8 plus members from other Swedish acts like Acid House Kings and Starlet. Sweet pop reminiscent of the smoothest, silkiest Sarah Records sound. And this delivery was complete in the best possible way with TELEFILME, the band in which Tito (Elefant’s mercenary) and David “Beef” gave way to their experimental needs imagining impossible songs which they craft themselves at home. Three songs unavailable elsewhere, so exciting and bewitching as their two albums.
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As a farewell to our first year at the club we chose three very special singles: an advance of our awaited TRIBUTE TO GALAXIE 500 with cover versions by American bands Hula Hoop and Holiday Flyer, Japanese group Venus Peter and Pequeñas Cosas Furiosas from Spain . SR CHINARRO, one of our favest Spanish bands because of their personality and charisma, made their own “Ondina” (by Spanish 80’s band Aviador Dro) and “La casa del misterio” (Ilegales). Finally one of our most prolific and reknown bands -SILVANIA- couldn’t be out of this, and gave us two non-album songs with a poppier orientation than we were lately used to hear from them, but never abandoning their curiosity for risk and avant-garde, anticipating the multidirectionality of their forthcoming works.