Eliza Edens & Nora Meier
The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
Admission: $12
$12 advance / $15 day of show / 9:15 doors / 9:30 music / all ages Brooklyn-based songwriter Eliza Edens celebrates the release of their latest record 'Death Drive.' Local songwriter Nora Meier supports. Eliza Edens is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who writes songs that dance inside the white-hot intersection of pleasure and pain. Bold and sincere, their songs are like antique cameo necklaces–snapshots of tenderness, worn close to the heart. A palette of punchy electric guitars and drums, gentle keys, and flourishes of saxophone and electronic percussion accent Edens’ voice as they sing of lovers & lilacs, grief & gratitude, and Freud’s “death drive.” Chameleonic in nature, Edens touches corners of pop, rock, folk, and country–with their voice as the glue that binds each genre foray together into a commanding sound. Edens came up initially on the DIY songwriter circuit–playing self-booked tours of small clubs and listening rooms on the quiet success of 2020’s Time Away From Time and 2022’s lush acoustic-fingerpicked We’ll Become the Flowers . They earned praise from outlets such as Paste Magazine, The Nashville Scene, Spill Magazine, and Americana UK while incessantly touring across…