Elevation Rhythm’s Wild New Era

The first sound on Victory Lap isn’t a glossy synth line or a stadium-ready guitar riff. It’s pencils on a desk. Elevation Rhythm’s Josh Holiday grew up tapping out beats between classes with nothing but a couple of No. 2s and a school table. That’s where rhythm first found him, and when it came time to capture the chaos of the group’s newest record, he went back to where it all started.“I just thought, what if that sound had a place here, too?” Holiday says. “It felt nostalgic, but also triumph