Horns — they can be so melancholy. Especially so on Elanor Moss' heartbreaking new The Knife, The Needle single "Fixer." If they're not melancholy enough for you, here's a lyric: "Somewhere, deep down/ I'm afraid that if you show me the knife/ I might use it on you, babe." Ouch.
"'Fixer' is a song about vulnerability, that double-edged sword," the London-based singer-songwriter explains, continuing:
It came to me first as this image of how when you love someone it's like you are a little animal, rolling over and showing your little white belly, exposed and endangered to the power of the other. Everyone has their own particular vulnerabilities, and when you love someone you have to show them; you put that power in their hands. That's scary. They could hurt you. But that exposed place, that vulnerability, can also be a doorway into something else, some kind of healing. This is the song where the album title comes from.
At the end of the song, the knife transforms: "The thought comes/ Fully formed/ That maybe what we thought of as a knife/ Is just a needle we could use/ To stitch the wound?" Quite beautiful. Watch the accompanying video directed by H. Hawkline below.
The Knife, The Needle is out 8/21 on Merge.
