Elk City - Souls in Space (2019)

Elk City's latest EP, Souls in Space, released 18 October and features songs cut during sessions for the group's 2018 LP, Everybody's Insecure but held back for one reason or another. The material is remarkably confident and endlessly listenable. "Luncheonette" is seemingly effortless, buoyed by Renée LoBue's inimitable vocal style and dense but accessible lyrics; "Judy Knows How" is a gorgeous, ballad-ish piece that finds the intersection between the Velvet Underground, Bowie and Cowboy Junkies. These are songs that touch on the solitary but become a sense of comfort, companions for those who find companionship hard to come by, complicated, difficult.

There's a sense of the solitary in "Pity of a Rose", for which LoBue directed a new video. "It's a song about feeling sorry for one's self," she says. "Party of one at the pity party."