Live Review: Ella On The Run ‘Calvary’

ELLA ON THE RUN has had a pretty explosive beginning to her music career. After the success of her War Of The Words EP, the Londoner has marched back into the recording studio to produce her latest offering ‘Calvary’.

Known to her Grandma as Stephanie Gautier, Ella On The Run comes from a painfully perfect music background. Studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in the US, she has already gained attention from Clash Music, BBC Radio, and performed alongside Tove Styrke.

With the sounds of a marching army, and war era music in the opening beats, ‘Calvary’ progresses into something quite different to what you might initially expect. It gravitates to a tune with a sense of urgency and deceivingly soft vocals that slowly build into something grittier. If you listen to the lyrics ‘Calvary’ it as a pretty dark story to tell, with references to stinging bullets and trigger-happy guns they compliment these grittier lyrics.

In the glory years of pop music, it really knew who it was. These days however the best pop music is a little like a confused middle child lingering between different genres. Ella On The Run sits somewhere in that alternative pop/electronic kind of field, leaving the door wide open for her future releases.

‘Calvary’ is out October 30.

Words by Madeline Kilby

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