Listen: Elder Island - "What It's Worth"
Elder Island, despite still being relatively unheard of, manage to enviably bypass being immediately boxed in to any specific musical style on their debut release, the genre-dodging “What It’s Worth”. A cool mix of effortless percussion, including elements of an unexpected cello and soulful, RnB tinged vocals, the trio create erratic yet charming beats that fuse perfectly with singer Katy Sargent’s spirited tone.
With a rhythm that is established and continuously carried throughout by a series of haphazard handclaps, “What It’s Worth” not only manages to re-introduce modern pop-influenced music to the often avoided form of percussion, but it makes it sound effortlessly refreshing and modern, too. Not afraid to weave together their range of influences into a multi-layered sound, “What It’s Worth” is alluring in its disorganisation and definitely adds to the anticipation as to exactly what the rest of Elder Island’s debut might sound like.
With their self-titled EP pegged for release in June via the promising new label, Four Thieves Records, “What It’s Worth” is a charismatically uncoordinated introduction into the threesome’s ability to create a sound that is more concerned with soul, substance and charm than with fitting in to a specific style.
Elder Island EP is released on 30 June.
.
- Suede reveal live video for new track "Antidepressants" (and tease a new album)
- Nick Cave shares story on getting mistaken for Nicholas Cage
- Steve Albini’s memory to live on through a drop of his most prized possessions
- Punjabi megastar Diljit Dosanjh joins Jackson Wang for dark-dance pop moment “BUCK”
- Attawalpa drops new single “Anyway” with Lena Dunham-starring video
- Alan Sparhawk of Low unveils new single, "Not Broken"
- Fiona Apple unveils first track in five years, "Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)"
Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
Tall Tales

billy woods
GOLLIWOG

Mclusky
the world is still here and so are we
