The Electric Stars - Velvet Elvis the Only Lover Left Alive (2021)

The Electric Stars Velvet Elvis – The Only Lover Left Alive UK/2021/Stoned Gospel Records GREAT! $19 The Electric stars latest release has exploded off the back of their incredible debut which, hidden within its grooves begins to tell the story of an unhappy with life young man who dreams of bigger, brighter things, of singing, acting and performing like musical idols, The Stones, Marc Bolan, Jim Morrison and especially Elvis! This young lad however doesn’t want to just be like Elvis and the others, oh no, an even more pumped-up version of these heroes with stars coming out of his eyes and psychedelic goodness pouring out of his soul! “The band are quite hard to categorize – no bad thing – as the range of influences here are wide. Just when you think you’re settling in to a fairly traditional pop rock song along come some baggy drum beats to give everything a different twist. Throughout the album there are hints of Primal Scream, and The Wonderstuff keep springing to mind both with the sound and the style of songwriting, while the sound – if it needed to be shoved into a genre at all – veers from classic rock to indie pop and back again, with a dash of glam simmering below the surface. Overall it’s a real melting pot of ideas loaded with anthemic songs and enthusiastic pop hooks that would no doubt go down very well in a crowded boozy live setting where the more polished edges might fall away. The band’s been around a while and you can tell they know what they’re doing and exactly what they want to sound like!” – Eyeplug.net “I will start by asking this rhetorical question ‘Why the British charts aren’t over-flooded by The Electric Stars? They like to flirt with Mod and Popsike (occasionally with other things too). It’s a brimful album consisting of well-written, ‘handcrafted’ pop-rock nuggets.