Eliza McLamb Announces Debut Album 'Going Through It' & Shares New Track
McLamb is announcing her debut LP Going Through It will be released this January.
By: Michael Major Sep. 20, 2023
Picture Eliza McLamb’s debut full-length, Going Through It, as a plunge pool with a still surface that betrays its staggering depth. A dive beneath reveals excerpts from McLamb’s life, one that until recently could be described as “difficult” if not plainly “traumatic.” By the time you hit bottom, you’ve reached the midpoint of Going Through It, a song called “16” that bluntly recalls a year of familial and personal turmoil that made McLamb the songwriter she is today.
“I’ve no idea why I didn’t kill myself, frankly,” she says. McLamb survived, but the trauma lingers. “Side A of the record is ‘show me everything,’” she says. “Side B asks: ‘How do I take this with me?’”
McLamb is today announcing her debut LP Going Through It will be released this January on Royal Mountain Records. Today she is also releasing the new single, “Glitter,” a dreamy indie-rock ode drenched in self-realization and true friendship. Eliza tells us “Glitter is a song about the simultaneously beautiful and heartbreaking experience of moving through girlhood with a best friend. It’s a love letter, a cry for help, and a search for meaning in the darkness.”
McLamb enlisted close confidant and collaborator Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties) to make the record at Bear Creek Studio in rural Washington, where Big Thief recorded U.F.O.F., an album McLamb holds dear. She’s keen to reference her influences, and pays respect to them across Going Through It.
Opener “Before” summons the soft spoken, confessional ethos of Sufjan Stevens’ seminal Carrie & Lowell, the story of which mirrors, to an extent, McLamb’s own. “That really deep dive into his childhood and the relationship to family was a major inspiration on this record. You don’t often hear those kinds of songs,” she says
On top of pursuing a career in music, she’s the co-host of the enormously popular podcast Binchtopia and devotes time to a Substack where she publishes personal and investigative essays. While both of those avenues offer insight into McLamb’s mind, it’s the music that helps her work through the past. “I sit down to write when I’m feeling a certain way and I don’t know why,” she says. “It’s a process of translating an emotional reality into a musical one, something that can be easily shared.”
“Glitter” follows the latest single “Mythologize Me,” McLamb’s first release since her 2022 EP, Salt Circle. She will be touring this fall, all dates can be found below. Pre-order the album HERE and on Bandcamp here.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
10/3 - Nashville, TN - The Beast
10/4 - St. Louis, MO - Delmar Hall
10/6 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10/7 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues Chicago
10/8 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
10/9 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
10/12 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
10/13 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
10/14 - Boston, MA - Big Night Live
10/16 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
10/17 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
10/19 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
10/20 - Tampa, FL - The Ritz Ybor
*Supporting Vacations & Last Dinosaurs
Photo Credit: Missy McLamb
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