Eliza Edens

Eliza Edens is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who writes songs that dance inside the white-hot intersection of pleasure and pain. Bold and sincere, their songs are like antique cameo necklaces–snapshots of tenderness, worn close to the heart. A palette of punchy electric guitars and drums, gentle keys, and flourishes of saxophone and electronic percussion accent Edens’ voice as they sing of lovers & lilacs, grief & gratitude, and Freud’s “death drive.” Chameleonic in nature, Edens touches corners of pop, rock, folk, and country–with their voice as the glue that binds each genre foray together into a commanding sound.

Newly molded by the black hole of grief, the singer reemerges this fall with their first record in 4 years. Death Drive, out October 30, is the sound of someone finding themself while also losing control. Heavy and light, black and neon-tinged, the album is a masterful achievement of contemporary indie rock, poignantly moving through the landscape of grief while also foisting joy, love, and humor up to the light.

“The Berkshires-born artist, now based in Brooklyn by way of Colorado, is no stranger to transition, examining love, death and nature in turns… "
—Paste Magazine