ELIZA - Cheddar (Single)
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Alt R&B singer songwriter and producer ELIZA has released ‘Cheddar’, the latest track from her eagerly anticipated third studio album, “The Darkening Green”, out on 4 March. Pre-save the album HERE.
On ‘Cheddar’, ELIZA confronts an exploitative relationship with bite. The lyrics are a steady reminder, as we begin a new year, to protect our energy and not be hardened by hurt.
Riding on a vintage funk drum beat and an urgent bass line; ELIZA’s soulful vocals emerge ruminating from a place of bruised realisation. She sings, “Cheddar, is that all I am to you… my love was a treasure, always on the house. You’ve shown your true agenda, and I’m afraid I knew deep down.” In spite of the spiky emotions; it ends on a lighter vantage point with a resolute declaration: “You won’t make me bitter, it’s not worth my shimmer… roses blooming now with extra thorns”.
Written and produced by ELIZA with Finlay ‘Phairo’ Robson and EMIL (Loyle Carner, Sampha, Doja Cat); ‘Cheddar’ is the second serving from her forthcoming new body of work following ‘Anyone Else’.
“The Darkening Green” is ELIZA’s most fiercely human record yet. The forthcoming album expands her earthy R&B soundscape and explores the concept that our ecological and emotional worlds are mirrors.
It is about coming home, examining what happens when we drift and life fills with noise, speed, ego, and the grind. Across the record, the North London native traces the emotional and spiritual journey of rewilding from the messiness of love to the heat of connection, and the complexity of being human in a hardening culture where we are pulled away from ourselves and from nature. Highlights include, future singles ‘Major’ and ‘Pleasure Boy’.
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. ELIZA’s 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 “The Darkening Green”.