Julian Laws
A Popular Music (Falmouth University) graduate currently based just outside of Bristol. A voracious reader, meticulous Letterboxd reviewer and lover of all things music. Consistently championing often ignored upcoming artists from Cornwall and the South West music scene to show what amazing talent can be found outside of the big cities!
Warm and joyously jangly, Ellur’s latest single, dazzles, reassures and champions a message to keep on keeping on in her latest Single ‘The Wheel’
Ahead of what is set to be a sold out UK tour, this latest single from Halifax singer Ellur concretes her as an emerging talent – one that is set for stardom. The single highlights how, as an artist, when you are creating you have to navigate and expose the deepest and darkest of personal truths in order to get the point across to the audience.
Ellur has said this song is being fed up of that, of thinking that every ‘song has to have intense meaning’. From the outset it seems odd – an artist consciously moving away from that – however I think it highlights a much broader and profound point about keeping on, not giving up, keeping spinning and, like a wheel, keep moving forward.
The track carries an autumnal tone, filled with change and quiet realisation. There’s a comforting coziness woven through the acoustic guitars, playful backing vocals, and Ellur’s reassuring delivery. It feels like the turning of seasons – the gentle shift from summer into autumn where something familiar is drawing to a close, yet there’s still hope and joy ahead if you just keep spinning your wheel.
The song closes with the lyrics ‘This skin of steel, Ignoring the reels, I got time and some good people around’. Again, highlighting the practice in looking around and soaking in the immediate luck around you – friends, partners, family. For fans of artist such as Holly Humberstone, The Japanese House and Sam Fender this single, and Ellur’s other work, is definitely for you.
Ellur, through trying to approach song writing in a different way, has invariably managed to write a great song with catchy riffs, singable hooks and a message that I think all people would benefit from listening to.
A great new single from a singer who is only set to get better and better.
Listen to ‘The Wheel’ here:
Catch Ellur at the following:
17th-20th September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
30th September – Deaf Institute, Manchester (sold-out)
1st October – Zerox, Newcastle (sold-out)
2nd October – SWG3 Poetry Club, Glasgow
3rd October – The Bodega, Nottingham
5th October – Dead Wax Digbeth, Birmingham
6th October – The Louisiana, Bristol (sold-out)
7th October – Heartbreakers, Southampton
9th October – Camden Assembly, London (sold-out)
10th October – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (sold-out)