“An introduction to a finely crafted yet often improvisational style which blurs the border between ethereality and the everyday.” That’s how we described E, the forthcoming debut full-length by Australia-born, Seattle-bred and New York-based songwriter and pianist Eliana Glass earlier in the month. The piano-led arrangements are elevated with a variety of electronic flourishes, leading to experimental songs full of emotion and detail. Lead single ‘Shrine’ highlighted the effect of such a style, Glass “presenting a level of abstraction which functions beyond simple narrative to get to the heart of memory as it is experienced,” as we described, conjuring a series of images and emerging as something intuitive and loaded with ambiguous meaning.
With the album set for release via Shelter Press at the end of April, Eliana Glass has returned with brand new single, ‘Good Friends Call Me E’. With a sedate rhythm and smoky vocals, the track offers an subdued, soulful mood, beckoning the listener close and murmuring its intimate details. The result lands somewhere between sensual croon and plaintive complaint, the arrangement ebbing and flowing around the delivery as though itself an extension of Glass’s voice. Every inch of the sound possesses an assured confidence even while detailing the continual pain of a wound which seems set to never heal. “Good friends call me E like my Dad does,” as Glass sings. “I get older every year but the land slides / and I’ve cried too much / yeah I’ve cried too much / I can’t cry no more.”
