After delighting us with a warm and vibrant array of beautifully alluring alt-pop gems these last few years, which recently included her 2021 anthems ‘Can’t Help Loving You’ and ‘Better’, Australian singer-songwriter ELASKIA has now returned with her first piece of new material of the year so far; the beautifully passionate ‘Love Is’.
Written during the lockdowns when she became fully impacted by the lack of opportunities to perform live again, ‘Love Is’ offers up a beautifully rich and tender side to her output in recent years.
Stripping back her usual brand of bright and glossy pop aesthetics for a humble piano-led serenade, she harnesses the raw emotion of those troubling times, and reemerges with a brilliantly compassionate swoon that showcases some of her most captivating songwriting to date.
Speaking about the new release, ELASKIA said: “I wrote this song during the last lockdown when it felt like the music industry had hit its lowest point.
“I felt completely and utterly devastated that I couldn’t perform music and I wondered if it would ever feel normal again.
“It broke my heart and I felt like I was going through the biggest breakup of my life.
”So I wrote this about that breakup and how no-one can prepare you for how painful loving something can be when it’s suddenly taken away from you.
“I feel like I had to do a lot of growing up in the past couple of years and I wanted this song to represent that pain and growth.”