Eliza & The Delusionals
Make It Feel Like The Garden
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Eliza & The Delusionals create the sort of indie-rock that takes you to the clouds. Lead singer/frontwoman Eliza Klatt’s voice is wispy and weightless – frequently soaring to divine heights – but is also capable of coming back down to earth and delivering a knockout blow when she sees fit. The magic surrounding the band’s sophomore release, comes partially from her vocal charm but is also due to the album’s creative vision – this cinematic, uplifting dreamscape brimming with lush interludes and songs that effortlessly segue into one another. It’s both a summer jam and an imaginative escape; a glistening utopia to which the mind will want to wander.
The soft sounds of nature usher us into this mystical garden, but the album’s aura gradually fuses itself with spacious, panoramic rock. We get bright, catchy tunes like ‘Another You’, which recalls Best Coast or perhaps even Alvvays, and ‘Hurts’, where the insanely memorable melodic inflections are almost Swiftian by nature (but far less self-engrossed). Gorgeous keyboard/saxophone flourishes add a majestic flair to the conclusions of ‘Falling For You’ and “I Wanna Love You’. We even get a Brian Aubert (of Silversun Pickups) cameo on the dreamy-yet-striking ‘Lately’, where driving guitars and lead synths pave the way for some of Eliza’s most poignant and heart-wrenching lyrics to-date: “I love you but I don’t want to / Am I wasting my time? Is this life worth living? It's fucked all the time.”
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