VERO Amplify: ELIZA

CLASH continues its collaboration with VERO True Social spotlighting talent via their Amplify series, offering insight into the creative forces driving the next wave of homegrown performers.

Now, we foreground the minimalist soul of ELIZA.

The Westminster-born singer broke away from her big label beginnings, reinventing as a newly-independent mononym on 2018’s ‘A Real Romantic’, which centred her pillow-soft voice over downtempo jazz grooves. On new album ‘A Sky Without Stars’, ELIZA doubles down on the heady romanticism but fleshes out her adult contemporary musings with a darker and grittier undertow.

Inspired by post-apocalyptic news reels and our collective unwillingness to confront the reality of the environmental devastation we enable, ‘A Sky Without Stars’ is a grainy exercise in inward-looking modern soul. Produced alongside friend and regular collaborator Phairo, ELIZA fashions her most sonically unified body of work to date, a fusion of programmed drums and fluid guitar riffs – a sleepy synthesis of D’Angelo, Aaliyah and Radiohead.

The album cements ELIZA’s place as a forerunner of progressive soul and RnB. Contrary to the clickbait “UK RnB is dead” soundbite that goes viral every so often, ELIZA is proof that the independent scene is flourishing and eminently fruitful.

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As part of VERO Amplify’s Deep Dives 5 interview, ELIZA reveals the film, food, music and literature recommendations. ELIZA also performs an acoustic rendition of ‘Abandon The Rule’, filmed at the Clash Studio.

Tune in below….

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