Elefant: Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Take one Diego Garcia, Detroit-born child of Argentinian parents, put him in downtown New York, and what's the result? Inexplicably, a great album that sounds like it could have been part of the Eighties British Invasion. Elefant's throbbing debut crams ten tuneful tracks into thirty-two minutes. Most of the songs are built around insidious dance grooves, which get filled out by excellent guitar work from a man known as Mod and vocals from songwriter Garcia, who favors the dramatic stylings of David Bowie. The best cut here is probably "Misfit," which combines a Strokes-style riff with lyrics about a failed relationship that include the line "Wrote this song last night when I was sober."

GAVIN EDWARDS
(From RS 923, May 29, 2003)