Album Notes

GA's avant-rock maestros Elevado have returned with a fourth album that blends psychedelic guitar lines with low-end dub bass and electronic drum beats. After some keyboard noise, the CD kicks off with "Song of a Purple Man" which rolls and lumbers like "Poptones" from PiL's "Second Edition" AKA "Metal Box". Then the title track teeters between early Police and some of the early '80s U.K. anarchist bands like Zounds, The Mob, or even AOS3. The rest continues in this hybrid fashion, either as a more lackadaisical Walkmen, or as a less ego-swaggering, drug-cavorting Birthday Party. Personally, I love a band that keeps me guessing and Elevado does just that.
- Chuck Foster, Big Takeover Magazine


Taking certain cues from the late-70s/early-80s intersection of post-punk, no-wave, cold-funk and Euro-electronica, while lyrically inspired by the events of today, Atlanta's woefully underrated Elevado mines a host of fantastic sources to come up with its intriguing, intense sound. The isolated dislocation of Joy Division, the shadowy angst of early Cure, the claustrophobic, sinuous and dubby Levene/Wobble days of PiL, and certainly Bowie (from any era) are amoung the many discernable touchstones the Atlanta band draws from on its highly recommended new CD, "This World Is On Fire." Throughout, they manage to balance a somewhat disconnected and paranoid lyrical tenderness with nervy sonic splatter. It catches your attention, and more importantly, holds it, not just because no one else currently comes to immediate mind with a comparable sound, but also because it's really, really good.
- Jeff Clark, Stomp and Stammer Magazine