Radio 1 tipped artist Lizzie Esau – drops new single

Fresh from a summer of festivals, which included headlining the BBC Introducing Stage for her debut Glastonbury Festival performance, Lizzie Esau ushers in Scorpio season with her blistering single ‘She’s A Scorpio’ alongside her 5-track EP “Spilling Out The Truth”.

Somewhere between a British Olivia Rodrigo and PJ Harvey, the 24 year old singer-songwriter makes sense of the world through her music. With over 2 million streams, the Newcastle artist is rapidly cementing her place as a voice for her generation. Tracks on “Spilling Out The Truth” unravel everything from relationships to misogyny, from climate crisis to figuring out her place in the age of social media.

In keeping with Scorpio season themes of intensity, self reflection and passion, the EP’s lead single ‘She’s A Scorpio’ recounts a frustrating dose of ex-boyfriend gaslighting after being cheated on. Lizzie said, “It’s about being driven to the edge and then you crack.”

She remembered, “I was young and it was the end of the world… then one day at a party it all came up and I exploded. He said, ‘you’re crazy, you’re such a Scorpio’. The irony being that the manipulator blames your explosive reaction on your star sign rather than considering the part they played.”

While the single is a knowing and cutting commentary on a misogynistic trend, elsewhere the EP touches on wider truths about the world through Lizzie’s eyes.

Lizzie voices generational concern about the state of the planet in ‘Wait Too Late’. She sings, “You gather round to hear inevitable news before it breaks… this is what you want, wait til it’s too late to make a change”

In the bombastic and ruthless ‘Cool’, she describes the internal conflict of being an introvert in an age of self-promotion. Lizzie proclaims, “Who the fuck am I trying to impress anyway. I’m done trying to be Cool for you.”

“Spilling Out The Truth” is mixed by Iain Berryman (Wolf Alice, Beabadoobee, Florence and the Machine) and mastered at AIR Studios by John Webber (Mark Ronson, Erol Alkan).

Lizzie has been championed by Jack Saunders, who premiered Lizzie’s music on BBC Radio 1’s Future Artists and NEXT WAVE, and in this summer she contributed a version of ‘I’m a Man’  to the soundtrack of Amazon Prime‘s My Lady Jane.

Lizzie’s previous singles include huge, melancholic bangers Bleak Sublime and The Enemy.

“SPILLING OUT THE TRUTH” TRACK LISTING:
1) She’s A Scorpio
2) A Secret
3) Impossible + Strange
4) Wait Too Late
5) Cool

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