The White
Elephants – 2 Singles: Can You Find My Soul?/Awkward Transitional Period &
Don't Waste My Time (Canal Records)
As far as I know The White Elephants is just one
musician, Anthony Moscatello, though you wouldn’t know it. The records usually
sound big and powerful, with full band instrumentation and a tendency to rock.
After last year’s “Roses” album, there’s a follow-up collection to be released
at the end of February, but before then, two singles have been made available
to pave the way, the two track “Can You Find My Soul?” and the single track
“Don't Waste My Time”.
“Can You Find My Soul?” and the accompanying “Awkward
Transitional Period” show the full spectrum of the punk-blues-garage sound that
Moscatello so ably encapsulates. The title track sits somewhere between early
Hendrix and The White Stripes, and provides plenty of funky thrills. Indeed,
turn it up loud and you won’t be able to stop yourself moving. Second side
“Awkward Transitional Period” is an altogether different kettle of fish. Relatively
restrained and with the song placed front and centre, it’s a side of Moscatello
I’ve rarely heard before.
“Don't
Waste My Time”, at over six minutes long, gets plenty of opportunity to build
and expand. It’s mainly acoustic and controlled, with an anti-love song lyric
and a hint of bitterness. The tension breaks in the final 90 seconds with a
full-on electric guitar solo, with drums crashing away behind, it peaks and
finally rolls away in a most satisfactory fashion.
Simon M.
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