Hamilton Trio Ellevator Channel Vanessa Carlton For New Music Video “Charlie IO”

Having recently announced their debut album will be out in 2022 via Arts & Crafts, Hamilton-based trio Ellevator continue to build momentum with their latest single “Charlie IO”, produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie), and its Vanessa Carlton-inspired music video directed by Cam Veitch. Dipping into the melodramatics of post-rock and warm wash of late-night indie rock, the new single is an introspective and spiritual journey guided by one’s own self-reflection without the help of psychedelics and pseudo-religious escapisms.

Speaking about the new single, vocalist Nabi Sue Bersche shares: “I’ve tried to find myself in all sorts of funny ways, and in a world full of brands exploiting our unending well of vanity it’s easy to make that “journey” to the center of your life. I imagine that when you finally find yourself or find god or reach nirvana or tap into universal knowledge, you’ll realize you’ve been there all along and you still have to do the dishes.”

Fans of Foxing, Arcade Fire, and Daughter will find solace in the captivating performance, steadily moved forward by hopeful and warmhearted lyricism.

Walla adds: “Everyone spins out. All of our friends and the rest of us too, maybe just yesterday or even right now. Eye contact is the most powerful tool in our everyday social toolbox to help someone in a spinout reconnect with reality, with the space we share together, and with whatever part of themselves is dizzy or lost or out of focus. Nabi is fundamentally empathetic and also quite serious, and though it’s impossible to make eye contact in a purely auditory medium, the goal with the choruses in “Charlie IO” was to give the listener that impression from the singer: you’ve been stopped, taken firmly but gently by the shoulders, and looked dead in the eye by someone who cares about you a great deal, in a way that you may have forgotten about when you were halfway to infinity.”

Director, Cam Veitch expands on the video to say: “With “Charlie IO” we wanted to pay homage to a video that stuck with a generation, 1000 Miles by Vanessa Carlton. We wanted to conjure up that uncanny feeling of Deja Vu mixed inside a hypnotic performance, while still having pieces that feel personal to this track. It was a ton of fun to make and I hope we did Vanessa proud.”

Watch the music video below: