Taste Test: Elina displays stunning vulnerability on new song, ‘Free’
The Swedish folk singer lets her pain pour through on a new acoustic ballad.
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A heavy price must be paid for the past. From heartbreaks and heart-rending self-afflictions, we bear the splintered cross of being human beings who feel everything down to the raw bone. Swedish folk singer-songwriter Elina stitches the patches of herself back together with the acoustically-wrung new song called “Free.” Her needle-like vocal sews the melody together with a lilting, poignant approach, which ebbs and flows along with a lonely guitar that appears to weep as much as she does. “We fell to our knees,” she remembers of a former lover. Her velvet tone soothes the listener into a somber state, yet there’s an overwhelming sensation of pain tingling throughout the body. In offering such a muted portrait of her misery, she somehow rises high before us to take on an impressively grand and majestic form, wide-sweeping as a phoenix puncturing the horizon.
“Free” is the first primer to Elina’s second EP. Release date TBD.
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