London-based songwriter Elanor Moss shares the new single/video, “The Way That It Feels” from her debut album, The Knife, The Needle, along with news of a headline tour of the United States this fall. The song is accompanied by a new music video, the second in a series made with award-winning filmmaker Matthew Thorne in the Greek Peloponnese, shot on 16mm film with DOP Tasos Chatzis. Watch it below and stream “The Way That It Feels” wherever you listen to music. Reserve your copy of The Knife, The Needle on CD or Clear Purple Wave Peak Vinyl ahead of its August 21 release date at the US or UK Merge store, or Elanor Moss' Bandcamp page.

Following the lead single “Sarah Waiting in the Car,” “a delicate folk song with gentle orchestration” (Brooklyn Vegan) that “recalls Vashti Bunyan in places, while the songwriting continually asserts its individuality” (Clash), “The Way That it Feels” is sung over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, capturing an entire universe created in the bond between two people: “Oh and the way that it feels // To know you // Oh and the way it reveals // I don’t know you.”

The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over the rest of the song. Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something unknowable just beyond.

Moss reflects, “This was the last song written for the album, and feels to me like it sums up the spirit of the record. The more I learn about love the less I know, the more I know about someone, the more I know I don’t know them. It feels like an appropriate last song for an album about paradoxes; love asks us to hold contradiction without giving in to its discomfort. A song about not turning away, but turning towards.” 

Elanor Moss on tour: 
Aug 11 Santa Barbara, CA – SOhO *
Aug 12 Santa Cruz, CA – Kuumbwa Jazz Center *
Aug 13 Sonoma, CA – Sebastiani Theatre *
Aug 21 London, UK – Rough Trade Denmark St. (In-store)
Aug 22 Oxford, UK – Truck (In-store)
Aug 25 Canterbury, UK – Vinylstore Jr (In-store)
Aug 29 Little Mongeham, UK – Smuggler's Festival
Oct 01 Glasgow UK – The Poetry Club
Oct 02 Leeds, UK – The Attic
Oct 03 Manchester, UK – Low Four Studio
Oct 04 Stroud, UK – The Prince Albert
Oct 06 Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
Oct 07 Bristol, UK – The Jam Jar
Oct 08 Cardiff, UK – Chapter Arts Centre
Oct 09 Oxford, UK – Common Ground
Oct 10 Ashburton, UK – Field System
Oct 11 Brighton, UK – The Folklore Rooms
Oct 19 New York,NY – Nightclub 101
Oct 21 Washington, DC – Pie Shop
Oct 23 Harrisonburg, VA – Sage Bird
Oct 24 Durham, NC – The Pinhook
Oct 25 Richmond, VA – Spacebomb Studio
Oct 27 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Small's Funhouse
Oct 29 Detroit, MI – Moondog Cafe
Nov 01 Chicago, IL – Tack Room
Nov 04 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
Nov 13 Seattle, WA – Ballard Homestead
Nov 14 Portland, OR – Turn Turn Turn
Nov 16 San Francisco, CA – 4 Star Theater
Nov 17 Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
Dec 03 London, UK – Cecil Sharp House