Elke – Divine Urge

Nashville artist Kayla Graninger, who records off-kilter art-pop as Elke, has today announced her sophomore album Divine Urge, set for release on October 25 via Congrats Records.

To celebrate the announcement, she today releases lead single “Enchanté” along with an ethereal and unforgettable music video for the song directed by Bérénice Bear Eveno with creative direction by AJ Gibboney and production by Quinlyn Ulysses.

Lead single “Enchanté” earns its title with an earworm dance-punk bassline that punctuates Elke’s spoken words, before the track bursts into a dazzling coda. Elke spoke on the track and the concept of the video saying, “Nature works together with what’s fighting against it without the opponent knowing. It finds a way to keep growing by adapting. This is why no matter how much we develop as a society, we will always have to return to nature, it is wiser than us and cannot be controlled. Sometimes we as people wish to possess the earth to feel alive, but nature teaches us the opposite, to just be alive is to possess the nature inside us. I play different characters in the video that resemble the duality of humans, technology, and nature.”

Co-produced by Elke and her close friend Jake McMullen and featuring Zac Farro (Paramore) on drums, the album seamlessly folds in her myriad influences, which span old school doo wop to prog rock to 2000s pop divas. With the sanctity of nature as a guide, Divine Urge is the sound of an artist who knows herself intimately. The album is the follow-up to Elke’s 2022 EP My “Human Experience.”

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