Taste Test: Ellen Krauss braids bitter & sweet with new song, ‘The Wedding’
The indie-pop storyteller wrote a love song for a real life wedding, and it underscores dark secrets.
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Love is never as simple as it seems. We all construct facades, walls riddled with flaky plaster and brick, around our lives as to hide what skeletons remain. Indie-pop darling and B-Sides & Badlands staple Ellen Krauss builds up a glossy love song called “The Wedding,” which possesses a rather intriguing, bittersweet history. Written for a friend’s mother’s wedding, the three-minute confection takes on new meaning given further context – “Later, I found out that the man had cheated on the bride,” she says – so Krauss’ always pointed performance configures infidelity beneath a veil of unconditional loyalty. “The Wedding,” a piano base with fluffy acoustic guitar, still heaves a rather heavenly message, but it’s underpinnings can be reapplied given the circumstances. “You make me better / Look what I’ve become,” the words escape in the finale moment.
“The Wedding” is ripped from Krauss’ debut EP, First Take, out everywhere now.
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