Elysia has grace in "He Gave Me You"

In a world that often skids past meaning at a million miles an hour, Elysia slows it down a bit with her new album, "He Gave Me You." It's not so much a song as a diary entry pried open and set to music, intimate, earnest, and unarguably authentic. Back in her lane and coasting in stride, Eylsia reminds us that the stronger one is often the toughest and lays it down on a song.

But there's an affinity to it, a boiler-room grace, that snatches at your own stories of love and attachment and grace. Its lyrical ease is purposeful, too. All of it, every last syllable, is there not to claim the air, but to tell you that, but also to tell you this, like every robust dialogue shifted down to a whisper. Elysia even tells the listener that this song is one that she also uncovered quickly, trying to find songs for her upcoming album. 

"He Gave Me You" is an artist's profile exposed to alter, a sort of song that reveals how much her heart has. It's the sort of composition that you walked into a random story that you were intended to hear all along. The tuneaves with a metabolic lightness, introducing sensation by sacrificing me for it.. All of this marks a musical journey between the singer and the listener. 

Elysia is the frontwoman here, but it's almost like The Wizard of Oz, you're pulling the cord. On "He Gave Me You," Elysia discloses why her voice has always been a fascination from the jump. This isn't a single sentence among the flurry of current releases, but this is the departure, a letter opened, and a commitment poem from a forthcoming record speaking from honesty.

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