THE ELEM is the transatlantic project of songwriter and producer M.L. Leichter, founded in Portugal in 2025 and built around a rotating cast of remote collaborators. The third single. ‘Times That… [Radio Edit]’ is out now and the ‘Perhaps, It’s Me’ EP is due November 16 through Absolute Label Services, UK. The music blends rock with alternative and indie – tackling themes of psychological and emotional territory, death, paranoia, unfulfilled love and the fear of the unknown: asking the hard questions about the human condition.

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THE ELEM follows "Could It Be Me?" with "Who's There?" an emotionally layered rock song that transforms personal loss into something closer to ritual. Where the last single asked a philosophical question about faith at arm's length, "Who's There" brings the discussion home, built around a single relationship, a specific guilt, and the kind of love that outlasts the person who gave it.

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 THE ELEM opens a bold new chapter with "Could It Be Me?," a genre-blurring rock anthem that pulls faith, paranoia, and self-importance into the same orbit and asks what separates them. Formed in Portugal in 2025 by songwriter and producer M.L. Leichter, THE ELEM works without borders, collaborating remotely with a rotating cast of musicians to build music that feels intimate and expansive at once, and "Could It Be Me?" stands as the clearest statement yet of that vision.