Barcelona-based artist Evelí Ray offers a deeply intimate and spiritually grounded moment with her new single “Elizabeth,” released on December 14, 2025. A rising voice in Europe’s alternative and ethereal pop landscape, Evelí brings dreamy atmospheres with emotional honesty, and this track feels like a defining step toward her debut album Butterflies, scheduled for 2026. Recorded at the renowned Medusa Estudio in Barcelona and polished by Grammy-winning engineers Érico Moreira and Felipe Tichauer, “Elizabeth” is a carefully crafted tribute inspired by Evelí’s mother, extending its meaning toward motherhood, nature, and the Earth itself. Collaborations with pianist Antonio Mazzei and producer–multi-instrumentalist Joan Miró Prat add depth, intimacy, and magic to the song’s world.
The track opens gently, with delicate piano notes glimmering and trickling like light through leaves. Almost immediately, Evelí’s delicate, high voice comes singing with sincerity, passion, devotion, and dedication in her low head voice, which makes her vibrato all the more apparent and eminent, so it vibrates and writhes as she sings with such dopey-eyed emotion and sensitivity. The sincerity is unfiltered, as if she’s singing from memory rather than performance. As “Elizabeth” unfolds, the kalimba weaves in softly, its thumbed tones echoing ancient traditions and grounding the song in something timeless and earthy. Subtle electronic textures hover beneath the surface, never crowding the arrangement, but instead creating a spacious, dreamlike halo around her voice.
The emotional pull of “Elizabeth” lies in its patience. Nothing is rushed. Each note feels intentional, allowing the song to breathe and invite reflection. Influences like Eivør can be felt in the song’s mysticism and honesty, yet Evelí’s identity remains unmistakably her own. By the final moments, the track feels less like a single and more like a quiet ritual, a reminder of roots, care, and connection in an increasingly disconnected world. “Elizabeth” lingers long after it ends, gentle but profound, like a memory carried home.
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Review by: Naomi Joan