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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