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Neon Trees’ Elaine Bradley sings of faith and doubt in side project, Noble Bodies

Elaine Bradley describes the music of Noble Bodies, her new — and, in a way, old — band, as “music for your existential crisis.”

“A lot of it is basically just processing what life is and why, and what’s the whole thing,” said Bradley, who has been and still is the drummer for the megaselling band Neon Trees. “What is God? What does that mean? What are we here? We question a lot of things.”

In the music industry, Noble Bodies would be called Bradley’s side project — a band with a harder, punk edge than Neon Trees’ pop-rock style, heard in the hits “Animal” and “Everybody Talks.