Elizabeth Fader Encore

After making waves with her band Phantastic Ferniture, Elizabeth Fader shares her debut single and video for 'Encore', and announces signing with Cooking Vinyl Australia. Indie-rock meets goth-electropop might best describe the genre if one was to try, but Fader's original touch has us guessing, and hanging out for more.

Framing honesty with playful optimism, 'Encore' relays an all too familiar scenario of finding someone you'll bend the rules for. Of the track, Fader says "I cheer for encores like I want them, when really I just want the show to finish as the performer planned. But sometimes you meet someone who you will stay for, who you will stay up all night for, who you will go out of your way for. But it's like, no matter how much you want to intertwine your life with someone else's, there will always be a separation in the same way the stage separates a performer from their audience. If it's not practicality stopping you from being together, it's your own desire to be alone."

Directed by long-time friend and collaborator Cate Hartmann, the accompanying video accentuates the melancholy undertones of 'Encore' despite its propulsive energy. "Because 'Encore' is pretty upbeat, I wanted to grunge it up a bit with the music video. I decided to create really strict parameters to see how engaging I could be with one shot, black & white, in one space. I had to focus on the subtleties of my performance, and work out how to keep the viewers' attention with these subtleties as the video unfolds," Fader says.

While finding success with Phantastic Ferniture, Fader's solo work earned her the reputation as one of Sydney's most intriguing songwriters and guitarists and has lead her to support the likes of Julien Baker, Julia Jacklin, The Teskey Brothers and Seeker Lover Keeper. 

Having recently signed with Cooking Vinyl Australia and recorded her debut release with ARIA award-winning producer Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, The Drones) and Ben Edwards (Aldous Harding, Marlon Williams), Fader has firmly asserted herself as one to watch in 2020.