Club music usually gets you pumped up for a night out. Music about clubs? Those songs are just as likely to focus on the come down from the good vibes: There¡¯s Robyn being ignored in the corner on ¡°Dancing on My Own¡± or Morrissey going, standing and leaving on his own in The Smiths¡¯ ¡°How Soon Is Now?¡±
Describing their music as ¡°sad boy disco,¡± Tokyo duo Elleh (pronounced ¡°LA¡°) seems to identify with the Robyns and Morrisseys of the world. Vocalist Satoru Teshima says the inspiration for his and Bob Willey¡¯s songs is that moment when ¡°you¡¯re waiting for the first train home, all your friends are gone ... and you¡¯re left alone with all your feelings and the music.¡±
It¡¯s that loneliness that lingers at the heart of Elleh¡¯s songwriting, but Teshima also says that the duo¡¯s newest EP, ¡°Anthems Part III,¡± is still its ¡°most accessible and poppiest album to date.¡±
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