In Electric Flower rock is not dead but realized. The chemistry between Wasif and Garza is undeniable. These are two true modern rockers that can and will break sound barriers. They create the kind of loudness that makes you glad, with songs that have an immediate and tangiable impact on the contemporary pop musical landscape. Artifice is devalued; pure emotion is king.

“Eclipsed” is a stand-out single, part loose metaphor, part nod to Dylanʼs ʻDonʼt Think Twiceʼ and Big Starʼs ʻSeptember Gurls,ʼ yet carving a space of its own. “Cocoon” is a markedly weirder track; the repetition of the mantra-like lyric “To see your love come shining” gives way by sudden schism into an unexpected extraterrestrial soundscape, veering between CAN-esque Mesmer beats and a guitar angularity akin to This Heat, all the while carrying the current of a song unlike either.

EP II is proof that music today can be cinematic and conceptual without the complications of over-instrumentation as demonstrated within the Modern Overarching Epic. Conversely, it moves against the wake of new-fangled blues stomp rock and the limits of its obligatory two-piece bands. Side two of the EP is dedicated to a cover of Scott Walkerʼs dark symphonic ode to S&M, “The Electrician,” done to such effect that it cuts to the core of the original, its primitive brightness reaching far out into other corners.

If the world ever catches up to them, we can then be sure that times really have changed, that the end is nigh, that the circle is unbroken. Electric Flower Group are on a journey through a modern kaleidoscope of rock ‘n’ roll, transcending mainstream influence and incorporating strong minimalist elements into their modern psychedelic music. In Garza’s pummeling beats and Wasif’s vocal and guitar exorcisms, we are not listening to just two men, but to an orchestra of the damned. Electric Flower Group wakes the ghosts of rock’s most daring days, while never following them.

Limited edition to 500, Foil Stamped White Vinyl 10” EP. Includes HQ digital DL.

ELECTRIC FLOWER EP II
Side A
1. Eclipsed 2. Cocoon

Side B
3. The Electrician

“Raw post-punk psychedelia”
-RCRD LBL

“With the excellent guitar work and band interplay featured on the first record, the tracks build upon this and elaborate further the duo’s fine songwriting, with tracks ranging from the likes of Eclipsed, an effortlessly cool, distorted 60′s pop track, to Cocoon, another of the band’s tracks that both evolve and flourish, opening with a dark guitar line, and hypnotic repetition of the line ‘To see your love come shining’, before building into claustrophobic layers of competing guitar lines. “

“Wasif and Garza exemplify their true musicianship with tracks that don’t simply adhere to the standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus, but offer intelligent and intricate structures and ideas”

-The Silver Tongue

In London, circa 2006, guitarist Imaad Wasif, on tour with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, got into an elevator with drummer Josh Garza from the Secret Machines. The elevator got stuck. They had their respective instruments with them and jammed to pass the time. When a technician saved them, they went their separate ways and thought nothing of it – until bumping into each other on a street in Los Angeles five years later. This time, they jammed in Wasif’s rehearsal space, formed a band, cut an EP, and are now letting the rest of the world catch on. Electric Flower could easily be one of this year’s SXSW breakouts.

-Rolling Stone

Benjy Eisen of Rolling Stones writes… “In London, circa 2006, guitarist Imaad Wasif, on tour with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, got into an elevator with drummer Josh Garza from the Secret Machines. The elevator got stuck. They had their respective instruments with them and jammed to pass the time. When a technician saved them, they went their separate ways and thought nothing of it – until bumping into each other on a street in Los Angeles five years later. This time, they jammed in Wasif’s rehearsal space, formed a band, cut an EP, and are now letting the rest of the world catch on. Electric Flower could easily be one of this year’s SXSW breakouts.”

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sxsw-2012-25-cant-miss-acts-20120308?page=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZDgMWNg0c

Date: FRIDAY MARCH 16th

Venue: THE JACKED STAGE

Address: 5th & RED RIVER, AUSTIN, TX 78701

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/354650884574663/

DOORS: 11AM
SHOW: 11:15AM – 5PM
SETS:
11:15am NO
12pm SOFT SWELLS
1pm GEMMA RAY
2pm HOORAY FOR EARTH
3pm ELECTRIC FLOWER GROUP
4pm BASS DRUM OF DEATH

Electric Flower’s new single “Eclipsed” available now on iTunes and all other digital stores.  Their first limited edition, foil stamped, red 10″ vinyl EP is available on the Narnack Records site.

Date: MARCH 15TH

Address: 29th St. BALLROOM / SPIDERHOUSE

FREE, ALL AGES and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Doors at 12 pm

Checkout the full lineup, schedule, and RSVP here: http://do512.com/c/sx2012/event/2012/03/15/austin-psych-fest-free-party-w-tba

Featuring performances by over 40 of our favorite bands on 3 stages: The Growlers, Crocodiles, Crystal Antlers, Sleepy Sun, Psychic Ills, Black Ryder, Fresh and Onlys, Mikal Cronin, Price Rama, QUILT, Indian Jewelry, White Fence, Allah Las, Sun Araw, Night Beats, Amen Dunes, Royal Baths, Lumerians, Woodsman, Turbo Fruits, The Good The Bad, Purling Hiss, Electric Flower, Fungi Girls, Diamond Center, Apache Dropout, Wet Hair, Cosmonauts, Feeding People, Bad Weather California, Pujol, Elephant Stone, Secret Colours, Cold Showers, Midday Veil, Heaven,  Far-out Fangtooth and Chris Catalena and The Native Americans

Electric Flower’s new single “Eclipsed” available now on iTunes and all other digital stores.  Their first limited edition, foil stamped, red 10″ vinyl EP is available on the Narnack Records site.

Here is high quality footage of the show:

We’re pleased to share “Eclipsed,” the first single from EP II, the aniticapted new EP from Electric Flower Group. The track premiered today at SPIN.com, where you can stream and/or download it. Click it now for some “crispy psych-pop beauty.”

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“This song wrote itself in a pure narcosis, in collaboration with Josh Garza, a drummer and idea man who is so good it’s scary,” guitarist Wasif says about the reverb-heavy “Circles.”

You can read more of the band’s comments here.

David Benjamin at Buzzine Music:

“On November 10, 2011, Electric Flower released their self-titled psyche-rock EP in the atmospheric surroundings of Harvard and Stone in Los Angeles, California.The hard-rocking psychedelic duo of Josh Garza on drums and Imaad Wasif on vocals and wailing guitar tore it up in a thunderous set of all-new tunes, influenced by the likes of The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, and Jane’s Addiction…”

Read more and see more photos at Buzzinemusic.com.