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Elise Soutar

(She/Her)
New York
As seen in: Yahoo Entertainment, Flipboard, Pitchfork, Paste, The A.V. Club, Alternative Press, PAPER Magazine, EIN News, PopMatters, The Line of Best Fit and
Covers:  music!
Doesn't Cover: (mostly) not music. i'll do a film-related thing now and then.
harpy. not here as often anymore. @pastemagazine @papermagazine @altpress @bestfitmusic @popmatters @polyesterzine. (she/her) (ejsoutar99@gmail.com)

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Elise Soutar is a New-York-born-and-based music and culture writer. She is a regular Contributing Writer at Paste Magazine, but also writes elsewhere (Pitchfork, ANTICS, Line of Best Fit, Polyester, PAPER, AltPress, etc.). She mostly writes about weird pop music.

She mainly profiles musicians, and has interviewed Fontaines D.C., Remi Wolf, CMAT, Toro y Moi, Mannequin Pussy, Sparks, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jamila Woods, Jessica Pratt, Xiu Xiu, Cate Le Bon, Model/Actriz, SPELLLING, Grace Ives, …

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The 40-year excavation of Nirosta Steel

The 40-year excavation of Nirosta Steel

Emerging from the shadow of his dear friend Arthur Russell's legacy, Steven Hall is finally telling his own s…

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Lucy Liyou: MR COBRA

Lucy Liyou: MR COBRA

To exorcise the memory of a predatory relationship, the experimental artist's new album and theatrical perfor…

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'Pet Sounds' at 60: "Here Today"

'Pet Sounds' at 60: "Here Today"

All things are made perfect in a fabled creator's ears when Brian Wilson's brothers' voices dance about the "…

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Inside C2C Festival, NYC's Music Critic Super Bowl

Inside C2C Festival, NYC's Music Critic Super Bowl

As the C2C Festival reached deep into the night at Knockdown Center in Queens, the excellent, thoughtfully cu…

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Kathryn Mohr, 'Carve' Album Review

Kathryn Mohr, 'Carve' Album Review

Upon repeated listens to Carve, melodies and intricacies within the arrangements do begin to reveal themselve…

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OHYUNG's Song to the Midwestern Siren

OHYUNG's Song to the Midwestern Siren

How the New York musician channelled the divine and reinvented her sound by making her "experimental, trans B…

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The 40-year excavation of Nirosta Steel

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Steven Hall has spent years chasing the sound of the day Allen Ginsberg introduced him to a neighbor in the Poets’ Building at 437 E 12th Street in the East Village.
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Elise Soutar on “Here Today”

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The Pet Sounds Project is Paste’s two-week celebration of the Beach Boys’ eleventh album, which turns sixty years old on May 16, 2026.
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'Pet Sounds' at 60: "Here Today"

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These 4 Surf Rock Hits From the 60s Will Instantly Refresh Your Summer Playlist Not quite ready for summer? Here are four songs that will make you wish it was warm and sunny all year long.The post These 4 Surf Rock Hits From the …
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