Description:	Green vinyl 7" on Elefant, limited to 700 copies
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Elefant
	Price:	£4.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 25 June 2009.

Elefant records of España deliver an old skool 4 track green vinyl 7" EP, “I Think I Need You” by Leeds' very own The Lodger. I like the sleeve, in hazy nostalgic green. I find that red hair & mother nature go together like red wine & brie on waterbiscuit. Or maybe I just fancy the girl. "The Lodge", expanded here to a 4 piece, deal in 60's soul flecked skiffle pop, mid 80's jangle ala the long forgotten Bob and twee head noddy balladeering. Theirs is a fey take on "real" indie, an honest approach to songwriting. I prefer the pacier end of their stuff to be fair but it's not exactly inspiring me on any level, especially after hearing the stunning Divorce single that's just landed. However they may of mass appeal to the kids who are taking a trainspotters holiday at Indietracks this Summer.

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What their label says...

Limited edition - GREEN VINYL - only 700 copies made.

Leeds based The Lodger new single & first for Elefant Records. The Lodger was formulated by Pontefract-born songwriter, singer and guitarist Ben Siddall inside a Leeds bedsit in 2004 as a solo project, quickly becoming a 3, then a 4-piece. After a few well-received 7-inch singles on a variety of independent labels such as Angular Records and Dance to the Radio, a debut album titled “Grown-Ups” was released in June 2007 around the world.

This was swiftly followed up by a second record in May 2008, “Life is Sweet” which was again licensed to various labels all over the universe including the legendary Slumberland Records in the USA (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Crystal Stilts) and coincided with tours of UK, Europe, Japan and
USA and festivals.

A new 4 song 7” E.P. led by the track “I Think I Need You” is released this June by Elefant Records (Camera Obscura, Au Revoir Simone et al), just in time for the sunshine...in the meantime Ben is locked in the study with guitars and keyboards and notebooks until Album 3 pops out. For the new material which the band are currently rehearsing, the personnel of the group continues to grow – adding trumpet, saxophone and viola.