Lizzie Esau – Wait Too Late
Lizzie Esau gets electro-dance and heavy on her latest single ‘Wait Too Late’. It seems like Lizzie Esau has been writing bangers ever since she was old enough to hold a pen. From the sumptuous ‘Bleak Sublime’ to the shout along chorus of ‘Enemy’ to the riff lively ‘Jellyfish’ she just keeps pounding them out.
Well now she can add ‘Wait Too Late’ to her illustrious list of musical achievements. There’s some fabulous breakbeat rhythms from the get-go, but it’s lyrically where this track really shines (check out the lines below from the third verse and you’ll see what I mean).
They’re climbing up the walls and they’re dying in the streets
We’re killing off the wildlife and we’re emptying the seas
To fill them with bodies who longed for shores they’d never reach
And no accountability it’s just not adding up to me
There’s a kind of seething anger to the song, but it’s never allowed to overpower. The greatest living English playwright, Jezz Butterworth, wrote a line in his latest play ‘The Hills of California’ that goes something like: “Up in town it’s all kiss-me-quick, mine’s a choc ice; out here in the backstreets – carnage.” Try putting that to a knock out beat and you see the scale of Lizzie Esau’s talent.
Lizzie and her band are performing at the Golden Touch festival this summer. Book a ticket asap; whatever you do, don’t, wait too late.
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