Champagne Dreams

posted in: Artist Features • Rock

Many an American rocker has found him or herself looking east for musical inspiration. Nope, not the Orient. Reel your gaze back a continent to Europe, specifically England. As we well know, English soil is nutrient-rich, pop fodder, capable of producing verdant hit-makers like The Beatles, The Smiths, Radiohead and Oasis. Elliot Craig is just one of thousands of Yanks with a yen for Brit-rock who chased his anglophilia across the pond in the hopes of tapping into the wellspring. Busking and open-mics didn’t lead to a champagne supernova, so after a few years Elliott returned to the States with a lot of English-inspired material and formed Satellite Crush. The music is contemporary Cure ” panging guitars saturated in reverb, ethereal vocals, throbbing bass lines and cymbal showers. The glittering Jealousy is an echo chamber of yawning cellos, acoustic guitars, and ghostly vocals, while Lovesick Soul is straight up jangle pop. On the soaring chorus of Paris to London Craig sings, It’s not always easy being loved. Look, there are a lot of Brit-rock devotees here in the States, man. You better get used to it.