Elanor Moss

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 captures an entire universe created in the bond between two people, asserting that whatever she learns from love and intimacy, there will always be something unknowable just beyond. Across the nine songs that make up The Knife, The Needle, Moss renders joy and pain in exquisite peals of psych-folk, offering an understanding of healing as a process rather than an object one obtains. Written over three years as she recalibrated her relationship with songwriting, therapy, and her family history, the album returns to “the music that made me really feel something; the music I wanted to be writing.” In its quieter, weirder, more English sound, Moss captures something fleeting, ephemeral, and honest about the moments in which love, for good or ill, irrevocably changes someone. “Shades of Joanna Newsom’s dynamic originality” - CLASH