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ELIOTT
debut album
‘just calling to tell you i’m ok’
is out today
+ Shares Emotive New Video
for Opening Track
‘Only 25’
+ Album Launch Show
Sydney (19/8)
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Watch video here
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“Eliott’s just calling to tell you i’m ok, is the poster child for an album which should be listened to in order. The sophisticated and haunting debut starts with someone who is completely broken, but ends on a far more upbeat note… detailed and dissected through Eliott’s powerful vocals.” – Rolling Stone Magazine 4 stars
Today, Melbourne singer and songwriter, Eliott releases her long-awaited debut album just calling to tell you i’m ok. Set to perform two very special album launch shows, Eliott will be play The Northcote Social Club in Melbourne tomorrow night and the Landsdowne Hotel in Sydney on Saturday August 19th.
Eliott shares, “Making this album was an unexpected and much needed therapy session which helped me through a period of pain, growth and healing. It’s everything I couldn’t say during those calls to tell you i was ok. . I can’t wait to put it out into the world so I can finally let go of everything. The pain, the love, the hate, the person i was, so i can finally be the person i am. This album has helped me in so many ways – and now I hope it can help you too.”
With today’s release, Eliott reveals the emotive official video for the album’s opening track ‘Only 25’. Directed by Bradley Murnane, ‘Only 25’ tells the story of a faltering relationship and the beginnings of self-acceptance. It’s one of the tracks on the album that Eliott wrote without quite realizing its meaning. Co-written with Simon Lam, Eliott recalls the song took less than an hour to write, “We did some improv and Simon was playing piano and I was just singing at the top. And the lyrics that I was just singing just subconsciously came out – and they were the ones we used in the end.”
Bradley explains the concept of the video, “This collaboration set out to explore the inner world of Eliott’s lyrics through expressionism. The sets were designed to connect with Eliott’s inner realm and explore the ebbs and flows of what it’s like to just feel. To imagine. To be”
While some of the demos date back to 2018 for the Cobram (Regional Victoria) native, most of the album was written after a formative period in 2020, including spending two months in Paris alongside producer Jack Grace. In the City of Light, with no pressure to write an album or produce a hit on her back, the songs for just calling to tell you i’m okay appeared.
‘Tell Me’, was written when Eliott began to seek out help after a period of low mental health. The lyrics are crushingly intimate, but the song is stadium-sized – in the chorus. The light begins to creep in on ‘Control’, a restless and urgent cut in which she admits to being left broken and alone by an old relationship – giving everything and not getting it back. But under it all there’s a thread of optimism, that it’s now out of her control, that’s she’s on her own, liberated.
The album lifts further on the affirming ‘Oh My Heart’, yet the album’s most tender moment comes in the form of ‘For Oli’, a quiet letter to a dearly departed friend.
At the end of the album, we arrive at ‘Just Fine’. After 12 tracks of unfolding turmoil and gradual acceptance, Eliott’s landed at a calmer place. This is the conversation she’s having with herself, Eliott says, that you’ll be just fine. That everything will be okay.
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ELIOTT
debut album
‘JUST CALLING TO TELL YOU I’M OK’
IS OUT NOW
through Island Records Australia
Tracklisting
Only 25
Hanging On
Tell Me
I Miss You All The Time
Happy On My Own (feat. Vancouver Sleep Clinic)
Control
Draw A Gun
For Oli
Energy
Here Again
Oh My Heart
Just Fine
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The tender and powerful 12-track debut album is an arresting statement of arrival from an artist who’s been steadily and surely cutting her teeth in the Australian music scene since her debut single ‘Figure It Out’ in 2017. In the few short years since, she’s built up an enviable CV: tours supporting the likes of Chris Lanzon and Matt Corby, collaborations with Lucy Blomkamp, The Kite String Tangle, acclaimed single releases like ‘Circles’, ‘Home’, and her 2018 debut EP Bold Enough, which introduced her to the world in spectacular fashion.
On just calling to tell you i’m okay, Eliott’s prodigious talent is on full display. At times explosive, at times searingly introspective, the album is a compelling journey of fracturing relationships, self-discovery, and gentle, hopeful rebirth. As Eliott tells it, it’s almost a conversation she’s having with herself.
just calling to tell you i’m okay’s production was helmed by Gab Strum (Japanese Wallpaper) – additional work was done by Jack Grace, Hauskey, Simon Lam, and Dylan Nash – with Eliott working with a range of co-writers across the 12 tracks, including Hauskey, Nick Acquroff (NYCK), Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Xavier Dunn, Nash, Angie McMahon, Alexander Biggs, and Mélanie Pereira.
From ‘Only 25’ through to ‘Just Fine’, Eliott wants listeners to come on the journey with her – an intensely personal journey, but one she now wants to share with her fans. It’s hopeful, it’s looking ahead, instead of reflecting on the past. Let Eliott take you on that journey.
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ELIOTT
just calling to tell you i’m okay
Album Launch Shows
Sat Aug 12 – Northcote Social Club – Melbourne
Sat Aug 19 – The Lansdowne – Sydney
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