Elizabeth Mitchell – known on stage only by her first name – has released the first single, 'Love Is The Easiest Salvation', to her to-be-announced second album.
A cinematic indie-pop song, Elizabeth will showcase the track and a new live show at BIGSOUND. Marrying dark imagery with sweet sensibilities is the best way to describe Elizabeth's entire stage persona and style of music. "It kind of speaks to the way I am as a person," she says. "I really like light and silly things, but I'm also curious about things that are hard, things that are deeper and darker."
Through her music, Elizabeth explores both sides of life's coin, but in 'Love Is The Easiest Salvation', Elizabeth pays homage to love, offering up her take and experiences of love. "It's really about this feeling of wanting to be guided by something," Elizabeth explains, "wanting to have something to look to when things are hard, or when things are easy, but you need to feel connected. The song is really about love as worship, love as a guiding force. But also being something that can lead us down to things that are not good, if we don't have other stuff, other fullness in our lives."
Love, for Elizabeth, is what you make it. "Any kind of love," she says.
“When I wrote it I was really thinking about [how] we have so much time in life that romantic love is the thing that is so valued, and is the thing that makes people think that you're okay, if you're with a partner or in a relationship. But the flipside of that is, yeah, if you aren't feeling good in yourself, that can be something that makes for an endless search for a feeling of validation."
The single gives a taste of the full flavour of the forthcoming album by introducing a theme of seeking meaning. Elaborating, Elizabeth says: "Wanting life to mean something, wanting something be something that's going to save you from feeling like you're reckless or a little amped. But also acknowledging you're a little amped! I feel like the themes of the album are present in the song."
BIGSOUND is an opportunity for Elizabeth to expose herself to everything: criticism, critique, experience, opportunity, connection. She's very much looking forward to it all.
"I can't wait to share new music with people, it's just such a great opportunity to be able to do that on a larger scale. It's also so nice to connect with other people in our community and our industry, people you might not see all the time, and meet other people who are doing cool things. I'm really looking forward to it – with a bubbling nervous energy!"
Elizabeth showcases at The Brightside 5 September (midnight) and The Loft 6 September (9.15pm).
