Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte, and Christian Lee
Hutson, Elanor Moss releases debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records.
Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists
such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange
and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies.
“Oh and the way that it feels
To know you
Oh and the way it reveals
I don’t know you”
So begins “The Way That It Feels,” the concluding track of Elanor Moss’ debut full-length
album The Knife, The Needle, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records. In two couplets, sung
over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created
in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over
the rest of the song. Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those
things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to
these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something
unknowable just beyond.