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The concept of control isn’t just one of humanity’s greatest illusions; it’s one of our oldest comforts. It provides an invisible safety net where the outcomes of our existence solely depend on what we do. It’s up to us to predict and manage what our future holds.
However, God has a funny way of humbling us. You think you are headed in one direction, then life starts lifeing, and all of a sudden you’re on a completely different trajectory, walking an unknown path. No matter how hard you fight the current, you’ll never truly be able to swim upstream until one day you realize you just have to let go. It’s only when we stop fighting the flow and surrender to the current that we begin to see the beauty in its rhythm.
For the genre-bending electronic duo Elephant Heart, surrender is set at the foundation of their artistry, and through divine timing, they have emerged as one of the most innovative acts in electronic music.
Formed by the husband and wife duo, Jason and Victoria Evigan, Elephant Heart in itself wasn’t something they had planned. While music always played a huge role in their relationship, it wasn’t until five years into marriage that they started making music together.
At first, neither of them wanted the spotlight of an artist, but of course, that inkling to start wasn’t just random; it was divine timing. As time went on, the more they surrendered, the more they realized what they were creating had to be put out into the world.
“I’m totally open to wherever God wants us to go. I was actually very hesitant in the beginning for Eheart to become a ‘thing’… we both were,” Elephant Heart explained in an interview with The Daily Frequency. “For us, these were simply personal healing songs. But through the encouragement of many dear friends and Jason’s colleagues, I realized this was something we should share.”
Now, nearly a decade into the project, Elephant Heart is at the forefront of electronic music, performing at festivals like Okeechobee and Lightning In A Bottle while touring with artists like LSDREAM. With the arrival of their long-awaited album KINGDOM, the duo continues that rise with a soul-stirring journey into sound designed to open your heart to purpose, love, and connection.
But, just as they never intended to make music together, this album was never intended to come out in 2025, but years prior.
“We had plans of putting this out a couple of years ago, but we had many roadblocks on the business side, and then having another child really forced us to press pause for a minute. I was concerned sonically it wouldn’t stand the test of time, but listening now I think it sounds pretty futuristic still! It feels really good to finally get this out.”
KINGDOM is not only pushing boundaries sonically, but it feels like a record made for the reality of today.
In 2025, it is no question that the world is at war. We’re at war with ego, fear, deception, and corruption. But most of all, we’re at war with ourselves. Capturing themes of rebirth, transformation, and repurpose, the album plays like a call to step into your purpose, despite the chaos around you. Like divine timing, it’s as if God strategically placed those roadblocks to delay KINGDOM’s release until it was truly needed.
“This album was created by two wild artists as we navigate becoming new parents. Carving out moments in time to download and process our rebirth and repurpose. As the world spined madly on we had even more fuel than ever to empower our most precious gifts, our two sons. We believe we are spiritual beings in a spiritual battle, and we understand our role in it. Our deepest prayer is that this album will wake up the sleeping giants to become all who God has designed them to be.”
The delays, the pauses, and the unexpected turns were not setbacks but their calling in motion, where parenthood became their rebirth and transformation, like a mirror reflecting everything that needed to be unlearned.
“Becoming a parent has been transformative for us both. For me, as the mother, it’s a full-blown rebirth,” Victoria noted. “I’m not the same person as I was before having kids. I have found that parenthood matured me and sheds off even more layers of caring about unimportant things and valuing other things higher.”
But transformation is never easy. In order to be reborn, one has to be forged through the fire. Even the beauty of a deep love for their children required realignment and evolution.
“The deep love was consuming. But with all the changes as husband and wife, we needed to relearn each other and begin to find each other in it all. We’re both so infatuated with this new love of a baby, it was easy to neglect each other.”
That realization would become one of KINGDOM’s most defining lessons. Love, while powerful, isn’t an eternal flame. It’s an energy that needs to be tended to and rebuilt from time to time.
“I remember going into the session where we wrote Hearts Wide Open so broken-hearted and feeling so distant from Jason, being so frustrated and bitter. But as we wrote the song, I was like, wait, I’m not operating in the higher space here. I needed to tap back into that supernatural power to be able to express my needs, my disappointments from a place of love to have any breakthrough. We really hashed it out in that song.”
But through heartbreak comes harmony. And for Elephant Heart, creation and healing are one and the same and require a willingness to stay open when everything else wants to close.
“One day I didn’t want to go into work (the studio). I wasn’t feeling inspired, and our son asked me to come to work with me. I said, ‘I’m sorry, buddy, you can’t today… what would you do anyways if you came?’ He said, ‘I’d play.’ A light bulb went off. It reminded me to just go have fun and play like I used to before it became a job. I ended up having a great day and got a great song. Also, the freedom before you are taught rules in art is very liberating.”
That childlike reminder not only led to their children drawing KINGDOM’s album cover but reshaped their direction. Creation didn’t need control; it needed curiosity. It was never about perfection but presence and rediscovering who we are and what truly matters.
“Every day you wake up, you need to rededicate yourself to whatever it is—health, faith, family, love. We’ve been through so many seasons and have had many rebirths, and are always rediscovering our purpose. These songs take you on those journeys.”
More than an album, KINGDOM is a spiritual cycle of rediscovery and a reminder that purpose isn’t found in the destination but in the journey. It’s about embracing both the good and the bad, not through balance but rhythm.
“I’ve realized balance doesn’t work for creatives. I look at it as rhythms. When the inspiration comes, you need to follow it. If you’re not inspired, don’t force it. Dive fully into the family at that time. The truth is something is always going to suffer for a time. If you are in family mode, the art will suffer for a moment. If you are in art mode, the family will suffer for a moment. If an artist tries to balance everything, it will always be half-ass. It gets tricky when both parents are very creative,” they laughed. “Lots of planning and calendars.”
Through their bond as both a couple and in music, Elephant Heart has learned to embrace those seasons rather than fight them. There’s freedom in accepting that everything cannot thrive at once and that true creativity comes in waves, not just schedules.
Still, the constant through every season is faith. For Jason and Victoria, that anchor is found in their devotion to God.
“Honestly, it’s a simple answer, following Yeshua. For us, it’s the only thing that helps us. He said, ‘Follow Me.’ That path is only filled with love. When we go off the path, the path starts to become chaos.”
Faith grounds their art in purpose. It’s what turns noise into message and gives weight to every lyric. As they see it, the world’s chaos isn’t just physical but spiritual.
“Music is invisible. It’s pretty crazy if you actually think about what we are talking about here. Everybody is a spiritual being in a spiritual battle. Love, hate, depression, anxiety—these are all invisible things that manifest themselves into the physical.”
Elephant Heart sees sound not just as entertainment but as energy that interacts directly with our vibrational frequencies as human beings. Therefore, music not only dictates how we feel but shapes our perception of the world. In a time when much of mainstream music is filled with darkness, Elephant Heart hopes to bring light. Through their music, they aim to awaken the soul and remind listeners that the real fight is unseen, fought not just with noise but with frequency, as music can be a gateway to other realms.
“I’ve had so many extreme encounters with the spirit realm!” Victoria exclaimed. “I’ve seen demons and actual angels in the flesh. Once you see those things with your own eyes, there is no doubt that we are in a spiritual battle. Being aware of this, we know the power of music and what it does. We are making music with a strong intention. ‘The tongue speaks life or death.’ We are only speaking life with our lyrics.”
For Elephant Heart, this gateway is not a metaphor or theory but reality. Their lives, faith, and music are all rooted in the belief that creation itself is a battleground between light and dark.
“I’ve been influenced by dark music a lot in my past. It only continued to feed the hate and the pain in my life. Lyrics are soooooo powerful. What we are singing over ourselves and our environment is 1000% shifting the atmosphere.”
That understanding reoriented their entire creative philosophy, where intention became everything. Music is a vessel for energy, and energy, whether good or bad, always returns.
“From a sonic point of view, we want to stir up the spirit and take you somewhere you have never been before, but not somewhere away from you. Maybe away from the lies you believe about yourself… it’s not about escaping yourself though. It’s about discovering who you are and who God says you are.”
Their mission is not escapism but self-realization. They aren’t trying to pull listeners out of reality but rather deeper into it, to the part of themselves that remembers truth.
“Don’t get me wrong, I love a good sad song. It’s important to feel our feelings wherever they are in the healing process. But I’m really referencing the music that is beyond a sad song and just glamorizing death, destruction, devaluating women, etc.”
In other words, they’re not condemning darkness; they’re redefining it. Pain has purpose, but glorifying destruction only numbs what could be healed.
“As spiritual beings, we were created with the beautiful ability to sing, proclaim, and release what’s inside. I’m thankful that I did not know I had this gift until later in life, after A LOT of healing.”
For Victoria, healing unlocked her voice not just as a performer but as a vessel. What was once a whisper of doubt became a declaration of faith.
“I look back at my old journals and I’m like, wow, you were so sad and depressed and angry, baby girl. I love getting to share my own victories and struggles through music. It’s wild to see how my personal experience can be relatable to someone else with their own stuff.”
That transparency has built an emotional bridge between Elephant Heart and their fans. Every lyric comes from a place of authenticity, turning personal battles into collective healing.
“We have had people tell us some powerful stories about how our music has saved their lives and lifted them out of really dark places. That always brings tears to my eyes.”
Those moments remind them why they make music in the first place, not for acclaim or attention, but for transformation through healing, forgiveness, and love.
“Oh man, I hope people realize how powerful forgiveness is. Forgiveness breaks bondage and opens the path to healing. We should not be fighting each other but rather the spiritual forces that are trying to influence and control us.”
They see forgiveness as liberation that dismantles the illusion of separation and realigns us with the divine.
“I hope people have some wild God encounters and that they feel the presence, peace, and get some downloads. Our battle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces of evil. When we learn who the real enemy is, we are liberated.”
It’s this understanding that threads through KINGDOM and its themes of awakening, redemption, and surrender. In order to reclaim our peace, we must first know the enemy and the chaos that comes with it.
And in an industry often obsessed with chaos, Elephant Heart flips the script. Love is both their rebellion and the ultimate act of resistance.
“It’s actually punk rock to be all about love. The real freaks are the ones who aren’t just going after the low-hanging fruit the world is selling us. We’re able to love our brothers and sisters in this world regardless of our differences and our offenses. We’re able to have compassion and to actually walk down the path to healing together.”
That message of unity pulses through every track. KINGDOM isn’t an album to consume; it’s an experience to join and take arms in the fight against evil. It’s an invitation to rise.
“We have huge visions and expectations for this project and the culture it is moving. But it’s all at God’s speed, so we are patient with it.”
That patience, the same surrender that birthed KINGDOM and the Elephant Heart project as a whole, still guides their path. Together, they move with intention as two souls sharpening each other, pushing toward purpose, and inspiring others to do the same.
“The world has always glamorized darkness. As humans, we glamorize it and romanticize it. I hope our music could flip that upside down and there could be some identity restoration.”
And through it all, that’s what KINGDOM ultimately achieves. It’s a reminder that restoration is available for us all. Light is not fragile, faith is not blind, and love is the greatest resistance.