Foxy Digitalis
The first three albums from the Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble feel like a growing tree, emerging each season with massive new branches and forming elegant skyward pathways. Melodies from another time mesh with inventive song structures and engaging timbres to create a still-unfolding narrative. Their latest, III, expands the ensemble’s aural worlds with new sonic elements and […]
As fall has finally arrived here in Tulsa (at least for a week or so), the gilded resonance of Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble’s latest album has hit a little deeper. There’s something about these golden-hued songs and delicate arrangements that lend themselves to the current season in a special way. With that, I was thrilled when […]
The movement of light and shapes in Timothy Breen’s video for “Confluence,” off Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble’s new album, focuses the fading daylight into an emotional cascade. McLaughlin’s lilting fingerpicked guitar melody hangs like a phantom between the waves of light. It’s a song where the weight of feeling stuck in between sharpens to a point. […]
Night falls, but the light remains. Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble’s latest foray into the spaces between acoustic guitar explorations, chamber music, and organic folk is too bright to extinguish. Written and recorded during a time of uncertainty and darkness, II is bright and urgent. McLaughlin’s compositions ride a silver thread through winding corridors where danger and distraction hang […]