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[Review] The Elkcloner ‘The Elkcloner’

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The Elkcloner is the brainchild of Serbian/New York composer Filip Mitrovic, who co-scored Resident Evil: Afterlife as well as The Echo and Sleep Dealer. With this self-titled debut album, Mitrovic has put out an album that tackles multiple genres using only live recordings, no samples whatsoever. Also featured on the album is Rose Colella, a Chicago-based jazz vocalist. Do all these components work in application or would it have been better left on paper?

I’m the type of guy who fiddles with the radio tuner knob a lot. I’ve been told I have music ADHD, which might very well be the case. But the things is that if I get to the part of the song I want to hear, I feel like I don’t need to listen to the rest of the song. Yes, there are countless songs where I want to hear the whole thing, but they’re not really radio material, y’know what I mean?
Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed The Elkcloner so much. From one song to another I couldn’t anticipate what I would be hearing. Would it be a song that sounds like an homage to the 60’s and 70’s spy spoof films with a dash of Cold War-era sci-fi movie whistling (The Green Dune)? Would it be a dark noir jazz track that had 50’s Motown doo wop singers (Crossfire)? How about the final track, Lonely View, which I can only describe by having you picture a scenario: a lonely waif girl rests her heads on her arms across the side of a gondola as it floats through the canals of Venice. She is on a trip to find her family/pet/wish/[insert whatever Disney tribulation fits] and this is the song that she sings.
See, that’s what makes this album so fun. I didn’t know what was coming next, which is actually rather rare and strange if you think about it. After all, when you buy an album, you think you know what you’re getting into, right? If I were to go and buy a new In Flames album, I would expect Swedish melodic death metal. If I bought a Taylor Swift album, I would expect pop country. But this album kept me on my toes throughout. 
For the horror enthusiasts, there is Annabel Lee, which gently alters the poem of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe and places it on top of a psychedelic 60’s pop track. It’s rather infectious and a very clever way to take a heart wrenching, eerie poem and give it an interesting spin. 
The Final Word: While at first listen, The Elkcloner might seem like an album stricken with ADHD, a few listens will clear everything up. This album is incredibly fun and well worth your time. 
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GUNSHIP Debuts ‘Time After Time’ Music Video Featuring Unseen ‘Whistle’ Footage

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Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.

To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.

This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”

“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”

Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”

It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”

Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.

Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).

The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.

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