{"id":530576,"date":"2023-09-03T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/?p=530576"},"modified":"2023-09-03T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:42:17","slug":"elizabeth-songs-words-treasures-images-inspired-love-is-the-easiest-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/elizabeth-songs-words-treasures-images-inspired-love-is-the-easiest-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth: The Songs, Words, Treasures and Images that Inspired &#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217; is the first single of 2023 from Brisbane\/Meanjin-based songwriter and performer <a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/Elizabeth\/\">Elizabeth<\/a>. The epic and wholly moving pop song is the first taste of the artist&#8217;s to-be-announced second album, due sometime in 2024. Elizabeth&#8217;s debut LP, the quietly capacious<em> the wonderful world of nature<\/em>, came out in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth is part of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/BIGSOUND\/\">BIGSOUND<\/a> program, playing an official showcase at The Loft on Wednesday, 6th September and appearing at a couple of parties on the days either side. In the lead up to the event, Elizabeth spoke to <em>Music Feeds<\/em> about the songs, words, objects and images that inspired the creative world of &#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-elizabeth-love-is-the-easiest-salvation\">Elizabeth &#8211; &#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7777777777778;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfc5aKJNjpA?si=Qtp8Si-XDZfi0kFe\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Eros The Bittersweet<\/em> by Anne Carson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth:<\/strong> I was reading this when I wrote &#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217;. The idea that romantic love is a source of both pleasure and pain, fulfilment and destruction. A tribute to the original lesbian Sappho; how could I not love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Cook, the Thief, His Wife &amp; Her Lover<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth:<\/strong> This film, directed by Peter Greenaway, depicts the terrible things that terrible people do when they are \u201cin love\u201d. And it&#8217;s a spectacle the whole way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bones, stones and snake skins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth: <\/strong>My spooky collection of bones, stones and snake skins features on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cvj0PzoS-9B\/\">cover art<\/a> of &#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217;. I keep these treasures on my treasure shelves, and I find them to be very special. They were collected on walks, farms and at the beach. A friend recently said, \u201cOh there is a big dead bug on your shelf,\u201d and I said, \u201cYes I put it there\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@elizabethmusic_elizabeth\/video\/7247048195304344850\" data-video-id=\"7247048195304344850\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@elizabethmusic_elizabeth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@elizabethmusic_elizabeth?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@elizabethmusic_elizabeth<\/a> please enjoy my spooky collection <a title=\"spooky\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/spooky?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#spooky<\/a> <a title=\"bones\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/bones?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#bones<\/a> <a title=\"collection\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/collection?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#collection<\/a> <a title=\"snake\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/snake?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#snake<\/a> <a title=\"body\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/body?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#body<\/a> <a title=\"horror\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/horror?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#horror<\/a> <a title=\"horrortok\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/horrortok?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#horrortok<\/a> <a title=\"scary\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/scary?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#scary<\/a> <a title=\"collector\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/collector?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#collector<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - elizabethmusic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7247048206780009217?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; elizabethmusic<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth:<\/strong> OK, never was there a more toxic love worship than The Phantom\u2019s obsession for Christine Daa\u00e9. Also the fact that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote <em>Phantom<\/em> for his wife Sarah Brightman, what a parallel \u2013 a genius creating for his muse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-church-recording-at-st-peter-s-basilica\">Church recording at St Peter\u2019s Basilica<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth:<\/strong> During the pandemic, I was making demos that included bootleg recordings of church sounds. One from St Peter\u2019s Basilica made it into the final version of &#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217;, and I think it added to the allusion to religious iconography in the song. What is a more pleasurable and painful love than being committed to something so much bigger than ourselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Skeeter Davis &#8211; &#8216;The End of the World&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth:<\/strong> Everything means nothing if you\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7777777777778;\" title=\"Skeeter Davis ~ The End of The World  (1962)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sonLd-32ns4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elizabeth at BIGSOUND 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuesday, 5th September &#8211; &#8216;Up Late and Unsigned&#8217; @ The Brightside, Brisbane QLD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday, 6th September &#8211; Official Showcase @ The Loft, Brisbane QLD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thursday, 7th September &#8211; Oztix Party @ The Brightside, Brisbane QLD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>More details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwE1vEFy1gc\/?img_index=1\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further Reading<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/elizabeth-i-used-to-blow-things-up-just-to-have-something-to-write-about\/\">Elizabeth: \u201cI Used to Blow Things Up Just to Have Something to Write About\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/winten-sounds-spaces-objects-inspired-waving-to-my-girl\/\">Winten on the Sounds, Spaces and Objects that Inspired \u2018Waving To My Girl\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/love-letter-to-a-record-vallis-alpssudan-archives-floating-points\/\">Parissa and David of Vallis Alps on Their Favourite Albums by Sudan Archives and Floating Points<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Love Is The Easiest Salvation&#8217; is the first single of 2023 from Brisbane\/Meanjin-based songwriter and performer Elizabeth. 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