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Elephant Stone
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
Elephant Stone
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Here Comes The Rising Sun — played 2026-09-03
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Elephant Stone — Here Comes The Rising Sun
Played: 2026-09-03
The opening track of ASHA, the tenth album from Montreal psych-rock veterans Elephant Stone, released summer 2026 to Album-of-the-Week billing at Louder Than War. The title is a cheeky wink at "House of the Rising Sun" — the band even wraps its darker subject matter in that familiar folk melody — and the track opens on a softly pulsing bassline before blooming into proto-psych-punk urgency. Led by multi-instrumentalist Rishi Dhir, the band has long fused sitar-laced psychedelia with pop hooks. Unverified: the precise title inspiration is strong but not explicitly confirmed by the band.
Sources: Louder Than War · Bandcamp
Elephant Stone
Origin: Montreal, Quebec, Canada · formed 2009 · active
Members: Rishi Dhir (vocals, sitar, bass, songwriting) · Miles Dupire-Gagnon (drums, backing vocals) · Robbie MacArthur (guitar, backing vocals) · Jason Kent (keyboards, backing vocals)
Genre: Psychedelic rock, sitar-pop, neo-psychedelia
Discography:
The Seven Seas (2009) — self-released
Elephant Stone (2013) — self-titled LP
The Three Poisons (2014) — self-released
Ship of Fools (2016) — self-released
Hollow (2020) — self-released
Back into the Dream (2024) — self-released
ASHA (2026) — Louder Than War Album of the Week
Facts:
Founder Rishi Dhir has spent nearly two decades fusing Indian classical sitar technique with Western psych-pop songwriting, a signature that predates the band itself (project roots trace to 2006).
The band released its first-ever French-language material, the EP Le Voyage de M. Lonely dans la Lune, in 2022.