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Elise Soutar

(She/Her)
New York
As seen in: Yahoo Entertainment, Flipboard, Pitchfork, Paste, The A.V. Club, PAPER Magazine, EIN News, PopMatters, The Line of Best Fit, The Untitled Magazine
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’s Biography

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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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Julia Holter: "I'm not really smart enough to make pop music" | Interview

Julia Holter: "I'm not really smart enough to make pop music" | Interview

Ahead of her companion record Materia, Julia Holter explains how each melody is another day conquered.

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Sweeping Promises: You Say I Romanticize

Sweeping Promises: You Say I Romanticize

On its third album, the Kansas-by-way-of-Boston duo adds a growly, gritty new density to its airtight art-pun…

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Roy Montgomery / Martha Skye Murphy: Nebular

Roy Montgomery / Martha Skye Murphy: Nebular

The veteran New Zealand guitarist and rising London avant-pop musician go full mind-meld on an album of foggy…

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Even at its drowsiest, "I'm Only Sleeping" is lit from within

Even at its drowsiest, "I'm Only Sleeping" is lit from within

Sandwiched between the startling, brilliant departure of Paul McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby" and the textured ex…

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Portraits of Tracy: "When I create, it's about nostalgia, good feelings"

Portraits of Tracy: "When I create, it's about nostalgia, good feelings"

Rebuilding her sound from the debris of a major-label deal, Tracy Amare has turned a lifetime of borrowed sou…

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Nia Archives pushes jungle music toward indie pop on Emotional Junglist

Nia Archives pushes jungle music toward indie pop on Emotional Junglist

The London-based musician’s second album eschews clichés with its blended anarchy of frenetic beats, string s…

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Articles

How L’Rain tried to smash the cycle of time

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By Elise Soutar
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On a balmy Thursday afternoon in August, the swankier patrons of Williamsburg’s Wythe Hotel dodged in and out of a cavalcade headed to the building’s back patio, with each member enlisted to carry a large physical object back—a box of vinyl, craft supplies, a printer, a large block of ice to be smashed later in the evening.
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“Harm of Will” is the soft center of Björk’s Vespertine

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By Elise Soutar
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Most things in my life have come to me through this people-watching habit I can’t shake—learning human behavior and remembering faces and talking my way into a job or a friendship or, at the very least, onto a show list.
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Julia Holter on the accidental fantasia of Materia

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By Elise Soutar
| The Line of Best Fit Verified
She’s tip-toed through post-language adventure travelogues on Loud City Song’s “In the Green Wild”, sent out a painterly, maximalist S.O.S. from a space above our heads on Aviary’s “Words I Heard”, insisted that “elsewhere” is her name now and sent herself off to sea on Have You In My Wilderness, and demanded a story to explain the “circular magic” of creation on Something in the Room She Moves.
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