Erika Levy - “The Knife”
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Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Erika Levy has recently revealed “The Knife,” the second single from her forthcoming album, White Limo. Please do yourself a favor and get it into your ears as soon as humanly possible.
Pressing play invites the sounds of a gritty guitar hammering out some single notes across a reverberating soundscape. The mood is dark and raw and we guarantee that, even with its simplicity, you will find yourself completely enchanted. And if that doesn’t do it for you, Levy’s vocal performance certainly will.
Levy has a voice that has been forged in the fires of our mellifluous overlords, simultaneously hitting all of our niches with a sound that is evocative of PJ Harvey, Florence Welch, and Sharon Van Etten. And if you’ve ever read a single page of our blog, you will already know that we relentlessly search for such a sound– we simply did not know that it actually existed until now.
As “The Knife” moves forward, large chords from the guitar ring out, though the song is not, by any means, in a hurry. Levy makes us wait for the elevation in the arrangement so that when it finally emerges, we savor it like a deep breath of cathartic air. And as the bass starts to bellow and the drums begin to churn, it is like waking some sort of magnificent, dynamic, musical beast.