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The new record is a bold leap forward from the 2010 debut Inventions, which came out on Nettwerk Records/Sony Music and won over audiences with its bouncy bubbly cabaret pop. The album’s single “Don’t Let Your Feet Touch Ground” hit the Canadian Hot 100, was featured in various film and TV placements, and was even included in the broadcast of Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics.

In the years since then, Koley and Deschambault have thrown themselves into an intensive writing process in which they entirely overhauled their approach. Koley moved to Los Angeles, and the pair frequently met up for intensive sessions with a cast of co-writers. Although the duo continued to handle nearly all of the production themselves, their new collaborators helped them to expand their palette to incorporate synth-pop, hip-hop and and soul.

“Elements means a few different things,” Koley says of the new album title. “We introduced a few different elements for this record, meaning collaborators and places and experiences and sounds. And we’ve also been placed out of our element, which is normally just the two of us in a Winnipeg studio. Now it’s travelling to L.A., working with other people and going to different sessions every day.”

One of these sessions resulted in “Criminal,” which was co-written in a whirlwind meet-up with Justin Gray (Mariah Carey, Amy Winehouse). The song has already charted on the Canadian Hot 100 and landed on the HOT AC & AC Top 20 radio charts, and its lovestruck lyrics, towering pop hooks and cinematic hip-hop beat act as a pulse-racing introduction to Ash Koley’s new style.

Elsewhere on the album, “Irresistible” is a sweeping, reverent ballad that highlights the poignant dynamics of Koley’s voice, while “Dangerous Words” is a beat-driven anthem about a fear of commitment and the life-changing weight of the words “I love you.” Another standout is “Every Time I Think of You,” a synth-spiked dance banger that was written in a lightening-fast burst of creativity in Deschambault’s Winnipeg basement. Deschambault remembers, “That was one where we got together and it wrote itself. I remember writing that in four or five hours.”

This writing process shows that, while Elements features new sounds and new collaborators, the band’s success still lies in the alchemical musical relationship between its principal members. Deschambault reveals, “My favourite phrase that Ash said to me is, ‘Can you hear what I just thought?’”

At this, Koley laughs and chimes in, “Yeah, and he can!”

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LYRICS:
You might get burned if you’re playing with fire
You might fall walking on the high wire
But danger makes the heart grow fonder

You gotta give a little more than you’re givin’
I gotta get a little better at forgivin’
Don’t say it if your hearts not in it

it’s a risk we have to take and it’s okay to be afraid

‘Cause
These are dangerous words we speak
Are you ready for all that they mean
We can’t go back if we try
Or un-¬open our eyes
These are dangerous words ’Cause these are dangerous words

So are you ready for the fight that you’re pickin’
Are you ready for that kind of commitment
Are you ready for some heavier liftin’

It’s like riding on the back a motorcycle
Blindfolded pointing a rifle
Closed eyes hoping for survival

It’s a risk we have to take I kinda like being afraid

So I let my heart speak for me
Surrender to love
And if you listen closely
It’s more than enough

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Ash Koley — Every Time I Think of You [Lyric Video]
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LYRICS:

I can see us falling, ah
Fall wherever you take me, ah
As we spin and race through the open spaces it won’t matter where we land
(’Cause I’ll be ready)

Every time I think of you I
Get caught up in your face, your perfect little smile
Every time I think of you I

Every time I think of you I
See the sand in your hair and the ocean in your eyes
Every time I think of you I smile
Every time I

Whatever the world brings, ah
I will keep you with me, ah
Move from day to day we remain the same with the sunlight in our eyes
(And I’ll be ready)

Every time I think of you I
Get caught up in your face, your perfect little smile
Every time I think of you I

Every time I think of you I
See the sand in your hair and the ocean in your eyes
Every time I think of you I smile

Every time I think of you I smile
Every time I think of you I smile

I can see us falling, ah

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Ash Koley — Criminal [Official Video]
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LYRICS

Criminal

It feels so good just to love you, like I love you
It should be illegal
Baby it feels so good, just to love you, like I love you
It should be illegal
If it was, I’d be a criminal
I’d be a criminal
I’d be a criminal
I’d be a criminal

Ten thousand reasons I should run away
You’ve got me bound and chained
That don’t make me a prisoner

I’ve kissed your demons and I loved the taste
You broke my heart awake
I’m forever and only yours

If dark goes light, if day turns night, then maybe wrong could be all right

We’ve come so far so fast we’re in so deep
Bulletproof, we’re thick as thieves
What we got is unbreakable

Keep setting fires just to feel the heat
It’s better when it’s bittersweet
Yeah the burn’s inescapable

If dark goes light, if day turns night, then maybe wrong could be all right
And it feels so good, good to love you, like I love you
It should be illegal
Baby it feels so good, just to love you, like I love you
It should be illegal
If it was, I’d be a criminal

Doin’ bad things never felt so right
Don’t look down cause we’re on this high
We can’t go back cause we’re on this ride
You and me until we die

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Original Music Video

“Don’t Let Your Feet Touch Ground” Lyrics:

Standing up straight I’m ten feet tall
I like this look I love you all
A hundred feet off the ground it seems
That a beautiful day is gracing me

Don’t let your feet touch ground
And don’t look Down
Oh, Oh
Don’t let your feet touch ground
And don’t look Down
Oh, Oh

I pull my boots up to my knees
No coats or hats, thank you please
I dig up dirt and I find no wrong
All while singing a silly song

Don’t let your feet touch ground
And don’t look Down
Oh, Oh
Don’t let your feet touch ground
And don’t look Down
Oh, Oh

There are no mistakes
Up in our secret place
We’re not just getting by
Everything is fine

Don’t let your feet touch ground
And don’t look Down
Oh, Oh
Don’t let your feet touch ground
And don’t look Down
Oh, Oh

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“Mary The Inventor” Lyrics:

OOOO have you met the inventor of it?
OOOO have you met the inventor of it?

Have you met her?
She’s Mary the inventor.
She’s right out of her mind.
HEY! Where do you think you’re going?

There’s no way out of here, I’ve looked around, I’ve checked it twice.
Does she think she invented love?
(BANG) In an alchemy explosion.

OOOO have you met the inventor of it?
(Of my love; of my love.)
OOOO have you met the inventor of it?
(Of my love; of my love.)

If you cross her, cross Mary the Inventor.
She’ll raise her hands to the sky,
(On fire),
Like a super human blow torch.

There’s always that idea she may be mach or out of touch.
Well she’s way ahead of her time,
Or maybe she just loves you?

OOOO have you met the inventor of it?
(Of my love; of my love.)
OOOO have you met the inventor of it?
(Of my love; of my love.)

This kind of love could only bring me to my knees.
Been there before, I know this well.
I’ve learned to fix it once it’s broken, I believe,
There’s much need to invent it unless you’ve learned to live without it.

They call her MAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRY!
(OOOO have you met the inventor of it?)
There’s much need to invent it unless you’ve learned to live without it.
(Of my love; of my love)
Call her MAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRY!
(OOOO have you met the inventor of it?)
Of my love; of my love. Repeat x1

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