ELIZA - Anyone Else (Single)
Picture Credit: Phoebe Salmon
Alt-R&B singer-songwriter and producer ELIZA returns with the first offering from her new body of work. ‘Anyone Else’, the North London native’s first single in two years, is out now.
ELIZA has finally written her first real love song. A little grungy, a little groovy, new single ‘Anyone Else’ opens her next chapter with fuzzy guitars, a soulful falsetto and lyricism that’s as succinct as it is tender, simple, warm and palpably sincere. “It was a really beautiful experience,” she says of writing the track about her nine-year relationship with director and baby daddy Charlie Robins. “When the world feels like it’s losing heart, having a loving connection with someone becomes the most sacred thing”. She sings, “Afraid of love, I sabotage myself to gain the illusion of control… but you got me, and I got you, and wherever you are is where I’m coming”.
Written and produced by ELIZA with her long-time music collaborator Finlay ‘Phairo’ Robson, the earthy tones conjured feel instantly grounding and homely, like a record that has cocooned countless intimate Sunday afternoons in quiet company. It is perhaps why this is the most fitting record for her re-introduction.
On choosing to bare it all on the single artwork, she said: “I’ve been feeling more than ever that I’m ready to be open, to stop holding back parts of myself, to be free. I’m alive.”
It has been eight years since the platinum selling singer songwriter ditched “Eliza Doolittle” and the major label system to carve her own lane as an independent R&B artist. The ELIZA studio albums, 2018’s “A Real Romantic” and 2022’s “A Sky Without Stars”, earned tastemaker press acclaim for its spell binding songs that drew on climate change, love, sex and community. Tipped by i-D as one of the rising musicians from the UK to watch, with over 720,000 monthly Spotify listeners and over 33 million YouTube views for her COLORS performance of ‘Wasn’t Looking’; the stage is set for ELIZA’s return. Stay tuned for the next chapter.