Élan Vital is the third studio album by Pretty Girls Make Graves, released by Matador Records on March 4, 2006 in Australia, on April 3, 2006 in Europe, and April 11, 2006 in the US.

It is the first album with new keyboardist Leona Marrs.

The title is based on the philosophical idea, élan vital.

Pitchfork saw Élan Vital continue the group's "angular, studio-polished" fusion of emo, math rock and punk.

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