Emily Elbert was tenting alone in Angeles Nationwide Forest when the uncooked power that drives “God Is Change” started percolating. “I used to be in a strategy of grief and transformation in my life—and dealing to give up to that unfolding course of,” she says. “Once I obtained dwelling, strolling the paths of the mountain close to my home, I completed the second verse: ‘Feed my type into the flame/Realizing I’ll be born once more.’ Little did I understand how literal these flames can be. That very same forest, my dwelling and my whole city of Altadena would burn to the bottom months later.”
Born in Dallas, Elbert is an achieved street warrior and touring guitarist who’s performed with Jenny Lewis, Amos Lee, Leon Bridges and others. She’s additionally established herself over the previous 20 years as a potent, issue-oriented singer/songwriter, because the woozy, intoxicating psychedelic blues of her newest single so eloquently demonstrates. Elbert’s genre-fluid discography dates to 2006’s Vibrant Aspect, an album she recorded in highschool. Her most up-to-date LP, Woven Collectively, was launched in 2022.
“God Is Change” is out at the moment through Metropolitan Groove Retailers. “The spirit of the track was impressed by a fellow former Altadena resident, the prophetic black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler,” says Elbert. “She stated, ‘All that you simply contact, you modify. All that you simply change, modifications you. The one lasting fact is change. God is change.’ For the reason that fires, this idea has carried me as I witness myself, my neighborhood and the world within the throes of huge modifications and a necessity for liberatory, connective transformation.”
We’re proud to premiere Emily Elbert’s “God Is Change.”
—Hobart Rowland
