Elysian Fields - What the Thunder Said (2024)

Elysian Fields recorded What The Thunder Said in New York with their French rhythm section (Matthieu Lopez and Olivier Pérez) and longtime creative collaborators Ed Pastorini and Thomas Bartlett. James Yost co-produced, recorded and mixed, bringing forth Oren and Jennifer’s sweeping sonic universes while the experience of lives lived in nearly 30 years together as a band are revealed in the lyrics. In that narrative, scattered with images of nature and the urban landscape, EF asks the big questions, mining the canvas of the world around them for the axioms and affections that help to tell the stories only Elysian Fields can conjure. Sometimes through myth, sometimes through the tragicomic, and always through poetry imbued with searching and longing, EF continues to inhabit and reflect back to us the deepest truths of the human experience.

Tracklist
1. Half Measures (5:37)
2. First Last Wishes (3:32)
3. This World Is Just a World (4:11)
4. Must Have Meant (3:32)
5. Before the Crashing Waves (4:42)
6. Know Not Whorl (4:47)
7. We're Losing Her (3:46)
8. I Can Give You That (4:16)
9. Changeling (3:43)
10. Say You're Sorry (3:35)
11. What the Thunder Said (4:42)
12. Strawberry Moon (3:30)