I don't have much info to go on regarding this Canuck trio, whose 1988 platter may have been the only release to their name. While not revelatory it's still generally satisfying in that left-of-the-dial manner, occasionally a little too color-by-numbers for their own good. Some tangential R.E.M.-isms, and even a few subtle folk-pop maneuvers are palpable, albeit
The Elementals were hardly inclined to strive for anything esoteric or even artsy here. Would love to have heard what a hypothetical follow-up to
Selling Out... might have amounted to, because as promising as this wax was The Elementals hadn't necessarily "arrived" yet, so to speak.
01. Huh, You Got It
02. Out on a Llama
03. World in Pieces
04. Find Me a Place
05. Won't You
06. Toys and Dolls
07. Hummana Hummana
08. G-Sharp Sideways
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