Elanor Moss

'With shades of Joanna Newsom's dynamic originality, Elanor Moss has a stark subtlety that

bowls you over in its intensity.'- CLASH

'The biggest secret weapon in British folk right now” - Far Out Magazine

Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte, and Christian Lee

Hutson, Elanor Moss releases debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records.

Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists

such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange

and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies.

“Oh and the way that it feels

To know you

Oh and the way it reveals

I don’t know you”

So begins “The Way That It Feels,” the concluding track of Elanor Moss’ debut full-length

album The Knife, The Needle, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records. In two couplets, sung

over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created

in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over

the rest of the song. Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those

things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to

these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something

unknowable just beyond.