Elsinore

PRESS:
"Elsinore play honest, mid-00s OC pop with a dose of soaring, arena-rock tendencies. Think of an indie Death Cab (ha!), pre-TV deals and celeb-marriages, making sonically perfect, big anthems. Think what it must’ve been like to see Coldplay before they were huge, maybe playing clubs around the UK on one of their first tours. They rely on keyboard and guitar driven arrangements, meticulously put together. Kind of like Headlights but with less twee and more swagger. Or Envy Corps; their melodies are huge."
-MissionFreak! | Iowa City (1.20.10)
"Elsinore sounds tighter and more focused with each successive MP3. The Champaign, Ill., band has developed a knack for punchy choruses with well-timed falsetto crooning and the occasional Beach Boys-esque four-part harmonies, but is still unafraid to swerve unexpectedly into the depths of hard-rock riffage."
-A.V. Club - The Onion | Madison/Chicago (1.13.10)
"​Champaign, Illinois' Elsinore opened [for St. Vincent] with a pretty flawless set of power-pop and space-rock. Singer Ryan Groff has a faultless falsetto and hair-metal pipes, and he puts them to good use on his band's kinetic, catchy songs. I already had him pegged as a less-mousy Ben Gibbard, and the balls-out cover of the Postal Service's "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" sealed the deal. Elsinore just wrapped up the recording of its next disc Yes Yes Yes, and if the dance-heavy title track is any indication, it should be stellar."
-River Front Times | St. Louis (10.2.09)