Elastica gets 'Menacing'
(Launch) - The next Elastica album will be titled "The Menace" and is
due to be released in the U.K. April 3 on the Deceptive label.
Elastica was officially dropped from its U.S. label, Geffen, last
November and is currently without an American label home. However,
the band is reportedly fielding offers from several interested
parties. Of the new album, band leader Justine Frischmann tells U.K.
music weekly NME, "It's called 'The Menace' because it has been for
me in every possible way. Everything that could have possibly f**ked
up, f**ked up. I'm very glad to see the other side of it, to be
honest." Since the release and relative success of its self-titled
debut album in 1995, the band toured the world and continued to be
extremely popular in its native England. The band spent late 1998 and
most of 1999 recording, during which it suffered the loss of
guitarist Donna Matthews and bassist Sheila Chipperfield, who were
replaced by the band's original bassist Annie Holland and guitarist
Paul Jones (of Linoleum). Keyboardist Mew (formerly of Heave) was
also added to the band. Elastica played a handful of sold-out club
gigs in England in January and expect to tour behind the new album's
release.
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