Emily Elbert was tenting alone in Angeles Nationwide Forest when the uncooked power that drives “God Is Change” started percolating. “I used to be in a means of grief and transformation in my life—and dealing to give up to that unfolding course of,” she says. “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/Figuring out I’ll be born once more.’ Little did I understand how literal these flames can be. That very same forest, my residence and my whole city of Altadena would burn to the bottom months later.”
Born in Dallas, Elbert is an achieved highway warrior and touring guitarist who’s performed with Jenny Lewis, Amos Lee, Leon Bridges and others. She’s additionally established herself over the previous twenty years as a potent, issue-oriented singer/songwriter, because the woozy, intoxicating psychedelic blues of her newest single so eloquently demonstrates. Elbert’s genre-fluid discography dates to 2006’s Shiny Facet, an album she recorded in highschool. Her most up-to-date LP, Woven Collectively, was launched in 2022.
“God Is Change” is out right now through Metropolitan Groove Retailers. “The spirit of the music was impressed by a fellow former Altadena resident, the prophetic black science-fiction creator Octavia Butler,” says Elbert. “She mentioned, ‘All that you simply contact, you alter. All that you simply change, modifications you. The one lasting reality is change. God is change.’ For the reason that fires, this idea has carried me as I witness myself, my group and the world within the throes of huge modifications and a necessity for liberatory, connective transformation.”
We’re proud to premiere Emily Elbert’s “God Is Change.”
—Hobart Rowland
