This Friday will see Canadian indie-rock trio Ellevator release their debut album The Words You Spoke Still Move Me via Arts & Crafts, which was produced by former Death Cab for Cutie member Chris Walla.
If you need a reason as to why this album needs to be on your radar, look no further than the show-stopping single “Party Trick”. A gorgeous slow burn the track’s expansive nature reaches new heights with every new step, a refined rock and pop ballad that finds a melancholic sensibility that is as equally sensitive as it is addictive.
Detailing the track, the band’s frontwoman Nabi Sue Bersche adds:
A friend said to me that being in a band means never growing up. It’s easy to feel like Peter Pan on tour, all the trappings of adulthood a hundred track stops and a thousand miles in the rearview. I started writing this song to my teenage self: a flighty, insecure kid posturing confidence. I’d jump around to all the different cliques like a self-styled Ferris Bueller, leaving just before friendships could settle in. Being on the road brought out those same old tendencies: keep it all on the level, don’t go too deep. Driving down the highway, floating through the hall/ Everything is different, nothing’s changed at all.”
Enjoy a listen to “Party Trick” now below.
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