Eloise

Since she can remember, Eloise has loved falling in love. The multi-faceted jazz and pop singer jokes that she is either “in love or heartbroken” at any one time: “I’m such a lover girl… I love being in love, and so when it comes to my music…” It stands to reason, then, that her songwriting traverses all of love’s highs and lows: the heartache, the yearning, the giddy bliss of it. Now she's turned falling in love into a literal artform for her superb second album, My Man & Me.

Eloise's latest work arrives amid a palpable shift in our collective thinking when it comes to relationships. There are important discussions about independence and self-worth, but also a yearning for a return to real connection, rather than endless cold, impersonal “matches” over apps. My Man & Me burns bright with true experience, her smoky voice and gorgeous jazz instrumentation – on songs such as “You Will Remain” and “Resisting Your Love” – pairs with those themes to give it a timeless quality. 

Raised in an artistic family who lived between bustling London and the tranquility of rural Normandy, Eloise has steadily been honing her craft, so that today she emerges as one of the UK’s most thrilling and unique talents. Born to TV’s Larry Lamb and renowned theatre actor Clare Burt, she initially followed her parents footsteps into acting, landing a starring role opposite Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth in the 2012 coming-of-age drama Broken, when she was 11 years old. “It’s funny, because I thought acting was what I wanted to do, my mum was always my female role model – but she never wanted me to act,” Eloise recalls. Knowing her daughter was keen to try, though, she encouraged her to audition for the role, and Eloise got the role.

She got into BRIT School, whose starry alumni include Amy Winehouse, Olivia Dean and Lola Young,  level alumni who inspired her to be proactive, knowing it would be up to her to put in the work and build a foundation for life after BRIT School.

Eloise worked on My Man & Me with her longtime friend and collaborator Slim Gabriel, who helped provide the lush textures and grooves that make this record such a transportative listen. “I found myself writing a lot about how there’s no right or wrong way to love someone,” Eloise says. “There’s nuance to it, because nothing in love is ever black and white.” The sultry R&B-influenced single “For You” finds her reflecting on a situation that stifled her (“I was so obsessed/ You chipped away at me until there was nothing left”), while acknowledging how she became hooked on her pursuit of someone she knew wasn’t treating her properly. “It’s about a dynamic you know isn’t healthy, but you’re almost addicted to the feeling of it,” Eloise says. “I wrote it knowing how I’d feel if the relationship ended, almost preemptively, like I was writing my way out of it.”

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