ELIZABETH SHARES NEW SINGLE 'IF YOU DIED' + VIDEO + HOT PINK VINYL RE-PRESS

Beloved patron saint of sad girls Elizabeth today shares the final instalment of her Suite of Singles, the lush pop song ‘If You Died’, co-written and produced by Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy) and mixed by Konstantin Kersting (Tones and I). The accompanying video, also released today, was filmed and directed by Nick Mckk and forms the final chapter to the three-part visual narrative. ‘If You Died’ is out everywhere today through Our Golden Friend/AntiFragile Music.

~ WATCH / LISTEN TO 'IF YOU DIED' HERE ~

Elizabeth is bringing her Suite of Singles to life at A Night With Elizabeth for ALWAYS LIVE, bringing together some of Naarm/Melbourne’s most wonderful artists, DJs, creatives and tastemakers including June Jones and Soju Gang for a night of love and wonder at the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday 29 October. Tickets and more information here.

Today also sees the release of Elizabeth's beloved debut album The Wonderful World of Nature on a repress of Hot Pink vinyl. You can purchase the record at A Night With Elizabeth or pre-order on bandcamp here.

‘If You Died’ is a decidedly anti- resentment pop song arguing for the power of love as a feeling far stronger than hate. There is precarity woven deeply into its emotional relief, “If you died now / I wouldn’t have said goodbye” she sings, the tension of knowing that saying goodbye to someone forever could be your only path to healing always bubbling under the surface. Elizabeth shares, “I wrote ‘If You Died’ with Oscar Dawson from Holy Holy in the wild first year of the pandemic. I was in a frantic haze of trying to process many endings; feeling gratitude for hard things being over, but also grief that always comes with change.” Musically it’s as formally inventive as it is emotionally rich, finding Dawson tinting Elizabeth’s vocals with auto-tune and transforming them into a wordless hook throughout the song.

The video for ‘If You Died’ shows Elizabeth and her doppelgänger, who first met on screen during ‘Sweet Connection’, coming together in a lush greenhouse, mirroring each other's movements as a metaphor for the shadow self. “I loved dancing around to it in a beautiful greenhouse for the video! Joy.” Elizabeth shares. The videos were created by acclaimed director Nick Mckk (Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever), a friend-turned-collaborator who brings Elizabeth’s Suite of Singles to life through a central visual narrative that connects the music to the movement across the three releases.

Elizabeth’s Suite of Singles are three interconnected singles and accompanying visuals that expand and complicate her richly alluring world, and the perfect introduction to the Elizabeth of 2022. In ‘Happier Now’ she was searching for steady ground after immense heartbreak; ‘Sweet Connection’ saw her step into a world of short, intense relationships, musing on the tapestry they form of what, and who, you really want; And ‘If You Died’, an ode to choosing love over hatred, acceptance that peace can sometimes only follow a deep pain.

As restrained as she is creative, Elizabeth surprised BIGSOUND goers with a much-hyped rare performance in the Valley, and the Suite has seen support from triple j, Unearthed, NOTION, NME, Earmilk, Double J, rage, MTV Australia and FBi Radio, and included in Best Music Lists on Music Feeds and The Music, among others.

Meanjin/Brisbane by way of Naarm/Melbourne pop singer Elizabeth captures the reckless thrill of romance like no other. On her debut album The Wonderful World of Nature (2019), she stepped away from a messy divorce like a world-weary heroine pulling herself from the wreckage of a car crash: broken glass shining like glitter, bloodstains smearing like blush. It was a pop record out of time - glamorous and tragic, ultra modern and undeniably timeless, a queer answer to nihilistic, powerfully feminine pop heroes like Lana Del Rey and Lorde. The record saw widespread acclaim from The Saturday Paper, The Fader, Wonderland, frankie, Pilerats, The Music and Tone Deaf among others and was included in Album of the Year lists across The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and the Herald Sun.

Tickets to A Night With Elizabeth are on sale now HERE.