“God is Change” is a rousing, soulful rock success from Emily Elbert, a California-based artist initially from Texas. Her songwriting captivates right here with lyrical conveyances of “battle and aid,” as bluesy guitars and sweltering organs linger alongside, into an invigorating “born once more,” vocal name and ensuing “transfer my physique,” multi-layered charisma. It marks a continued success for Elbert, who can be at present the guitarist for Leon Bridges. “God is Change” constantly stirs in its vary of layered vocal energy, debonair verses, and erupting guitar charisma.
The observe’s themes current a reverent embrace of transformation via grief, loss, and renewal—anchored within the perception that “God is change.” Elbert explains intimately:
“‘God is Change’ began on a solo tenting journey, alone within the Angeles Nationwide Forest. I used to be in a strategy of grief and transformation in my life, and dealing to give up to the unfolding course of. After I bought residence, strolling the paths of the mountain close to my home, I completed the second verse – ‘feed my kind into the flame, realizing I’ll be born once more.’ Little did I understand how literal these flames can be – that that very same forest, my residence, and my total city of Altadena, would burn to the bottom months later.
The spirit of the track was impressed by a fellow former Altadena resident, the prophetic Black science fiction writer Octavia Butler. She mentioned, ‘All that you simply contact, you modify. All that you simply change, modifications you. The one lasting reality is change. God is change.’ Because the fires, this idea has carried me, as I witness myself, my group, and the world within the throes of huge modifications and wish for liberatory, connective transformation. This track is a calling-in of that motion and power.”
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This and different tracks featured this month might be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
