Elizabeth Shares New Single 'Love Is The Easiest Salvation'
Beloved patron of sad girls Elizabeth celebrates her birthday today with the release of ‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’, a cinematic pop song that reflects on the devotion within love as a concept of worship, and the first cut from her highly anticipated, to-be-announced second album coming in 2024. ‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’ sees Elizabeth reunite with The Wonderful World of Nature producer John Castle with mastering by Ruairi O’Flaherty - whose incredible ear for pop music has seen him work with Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift and Sam Smith - and marks the start of a bold and confident new chapter for Elizabeth. ‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’ is out everywhere now through Our Golden Friend, stream HERE.
Elizabeth will be performing ‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’ and previewing her new album for the very first time at BIGSOUND 2023. She’s armed with a brand new live show, and her new band that features Ryan Strathie and Graham Ritchie from Holy Holy.
This isn’t the first time Elizabeth has released music on her birthday; the first single from her debut album, the iconic ‘Beautiful Baby’ also had an August 9 release. Arguably the most Leo move to release music on your birthday - Leos love to be the centre of attention after all - Elizabeth shares, “I like putting songs out on my birthday because I always think about dying on my birthday and songs live forever.”
The parallels between the sense of belonging found in relationships and faith found in religion forms the backbone of ‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’. She was richly inspired by Sappho’s poetry and Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet, and wrote the song on the electric piano she first learned to play when she was 11 that came preloaded with 00s sounds. Elizabeth shares, “Love is the Easiest Salvation holds that love is worship, we build our lives around finding connection. It’s a guiding light and sometimes something that leads us into darkness. I have never belonged to any kind of religion, but I know how to fall in love.” Love really is her church.
‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’ was recorded in kanamaluka/Launceston alongside co-producer John Castle (Cub Sport, Angie McMahon, Hatchie) with whom Elizabeth worked on across her debut album The Wonderful World of Nature. Castle added live drums, guitar, and additional synth to create such a heavenly, pop-driven track, with mastering by Ruairi O’Flaherty, one of the most in-demand pop music engineers who has worked alongside Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Denzel Curry and Lana Del Rey. The release of ‘Love Is The Easiest Salvation’ marks the start of a striking new chapter for Elizabeth, as she confidently steps forward towards the release of her new album due out in 2024.
Elizabeth captures the reckless thrill of romance like no other. On her debut album The Wonderful World of Nature, 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. Contrasting lush dream pop haze with visceral, disarmingly truthful lyricism, 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. In 2022 she released her Suite of Singles - three, interconnected songs and accompanying visuals by Nick Mckk that expanded and complicated her richly alluring world - and earlier this year released the Live at Thornbury Theatre EP, recorded at her curated event A Night With Elizabeth as part of Always LIVE. Elizabeth’s Suite of Singles - 'Happier Now', ‘Sweet Connection’ and ‘If You Died’ - saw support from triple j, Unearthed, FBi Radio, MTV Australia, rage, NME Australia, Notion, The Music, Music Feeds and many, many others.
