Indie Music Women’s Artist of the Day is…
Elisabeth Elektra (@elisaelektra)
Elisabeth Elektra’s work deconstructs pop archetypes by weaving in timely themes of magic, metaphysics and eternity alongside very contemporary production aesthetics. Something spectacular, and something different…that’s the best way of describing the music of Elisabeth Elektra. A songwriter drawing from the cosmic and the familiar to create pop music that’s as addictive and spine-tingling as the stories we’ve been telling for centuries.
Under her previous artist name Zyna Hel, Elektra worked with diverse collaborators including Ben Power of Fuck Buttons, Nurse With Wound’s Andrew Liles and This Mortal Coil’s John Fryer. Her new single, “Crystalline” is the melodic, catchy cosmic-pop banger. Reminiscent of Grimes, Allie X, and Iamamiwhoami, “Crystalline” is sparkling, tumbling contemporary synthpop full of glittering melodic motifs. “Crystalline” was written by Elisabeth Elektra, co-produced by Elisabeth Elektra and Lewis Gardiner (Ellie Goulding, Prides, Kloe) and features instrumental contributions from Julian Corrie (Franz Ferdinand) and Graeme Ronald (Remember Remember).
Elisabeth shared with me what it means to her personally to be an indie music woman artist:
“Being independent is really important to me, I write my songs so I own all my publishing and I also own the master rights to my recordings. I don’t have to run anything by anyone else which is a great feeling. The music industry has changed so much and I don’t see any reason why artists need labels these days unless they get to a stage where they can’t manage their business on their own. It definitely feels empowering to me to have agency over my creative output and my business.”
You can hear Elisabeth Elektra’s single “Crystalline” on our Spotify playlist.