London-based songwriter Elanor Moss releases the new single/video, “Fixer,” from her debut album, The Knife, The Needle. Watch the video below and listen to “Fixer” wherever you stream 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.

“Fixer” lends the album its title. Moss grapples with the fact that love is as capable of harming someone as it is healing them. Its chorus, “Somewhere, deep down / I’m afraid that if you show me the knife / I might use it on you babe” shifts, first to the thought that the “you” Moss addresses the song to may use it on her, then, stunningly, to the knife could be something else entirely: “Maybe what we thought of as a knife / Is just a needle we could use / To stitch the wound?” she asks, offering at last to reveal where she hurts so long as her partner does the same.

Moss comments, "‘Fixer’ is a song about vulnerability, that double-edged sword. It came to me first as this image of how when you love someone it's like you are a little animal, rolling over and showing your little white belly, exposed and endangered to the power of the other. Everyone has their own particular vulnerabilities, and when you love someone you have to show them; you put that power in their hands. That's scary. They could hurt you. But that exposed place, that vulnerability, can also be a doorway into something else, some kind of healing. This is the song where the album title comes from."

Elanor Moss will celebrate the release of The Knife, The Needle with a short run supporting Angelo De Augustine next month, followed by a string of UK in-stores. A full band tour of the UK and US follows in October. Tickets for all dates are on sale now. 

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

* Angelo De Augustine