Elliphant
Feb 12, 2015
"I've got four faces," Elliphant declares. "One of them is the crazy club girl. Then, there's my hip-hop side. I can also get all R&B on you. A lot of the time, I just feel like a hippie."
All four of those "faces" peek through on the 29 year-old Swedish pop maverick's second EP, One More, out on Kemosabe Records. It's a musical patchwork that's as warm as it is wild. After the success of her first stateside EP, Look Like You Love It, Elliphant holed up in Los Angeles for the majority of 2014, locking herself in the studio and writing countless songs. During the process, the girl legally known as Ellinor Olovsdotter experienced something of a revelation.
"I want to be an artist that reflects reality in everything-good and bad," she admits. "Life is always changing, and I want to be a reflection of what life is. You never have to choose black and white; you can stay in the grey zone. While you're there, be experimental as long as you're true to who you are. Music isn't meant to be solid. It's fluid. The music is a little more naked now. It really shows who I am."
Elliphant's sound was initially created together with the Swedish producer-duo 'Jungle,' which consists of Tim Deneve & Ted Krotkiewski. The music they created together caught the attention of TEN Music Group and Elliphant signed to TEN in 2011. Her debut album, A Good Idea, came out in 2013 in her native Sweden. The album featured a number of artists and producers, including Niki & the Dove. It also included the hit "Down On Life". Elliphant went on Charli XCX's Girl Power North America Tour as one of the opening acts in fall 2014.
Elliphant is featured in the new Apple iPad TV commercial.