“God is Change” is a rousing, soulful rock success from Emily Elbert, a California-based artist initially from Texas. Her songwriting captivates right here with lyrical conveyances of “wrestle and aid,” as bluesy guitars and sweltering organs linger alongside, into an invigorating “born once more,” vocal name and ensuing “transfer my physique,” multi-layered charisma. It marks a continued success for Elbert, who can also be presently the guitarist for Leon Bridges. “God is Change” persistently stirs in its vary of layered vocal energy, debonair verses, and erupting guitar charisma.
The observe’s themes current a reverent embrace of transformation by means of grief, loss, and renewal—anchored within the perception that “God is change.” Elbert explains intimately:
“‘God is Change’ began on a solo tenting journey, alone within the Angeles Nationwide Forest. I used to be in a technique of grief and transformation in my life, and dealing to give up to the unfolding course of. After I acquired house, strolling the paths of the mountain close to my home, I completed the second verse – ‘feed my kind into the flame, realizing I’ll be born once more.’ Little did I understand how literal these flames can be – that that very same forest, my house, and my complete city of Altadena, would burn to the bottom months later.
The spirit of the tune was impressed by a fellow former Altadena resident, the prophetic Black science fiction writer Octavia Butler. She stated, ‘All that you simply contact, you alter. 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 group, and the world within the throes of huge modifications and want for liberatory, connective transformation. This tune is a calling-in of that motion and vitality.”
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This and different tracks featured this month may be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
