Elke Jess arrives like the voice you wish you’d had back in the days: raw, unfiltered and a little dangerous. With indie-pop and alt-rock sensibilities, her songwriting trades in bruised honesty: jealousies, late-night reveries, and the petty catastrophes of youth that feel, in the moment, catastrophic. She writes like someone who’s lived the lines before she sings them, which makes Reeling feel less like a single and more like the soundtrack to a small, catastrophic epiphany.
