Music Review: Jay Elle - Ease Up (Into Love)

Jay Elle leads the audience through misty, evocative improvisations and goes for a more ambient and classier acoustic excursion.

His new single “Ease Up (Into Love)” is executed so gracefully and lovingly that the artist somehow makes it feel like it comes naturally to him, applying light touches to his voice to illuminate the intimacy of his understated songwriting.

Jay Elle brings out the vulnerability in each one of us when making attempts at finding love. A new relationship is uncharted territory, and most of us have natural fears of the unknown.

Any habits we’ve long had, allow us to feel self-focused or self-contained and we tend to believe that the more we care, the more we can get hurt.

Many of us may rarely have a clue in figuring out love but when you listen to “Ease Up (Into Love)” you get a sense of comfort that we are all human.

You know that allowing worry or guilt over how we may or may not feel keeps us from getting to know someone who is expressing interest in us and may prevent us from forming a relationship that could really make us happy.

From its self-titled EP, “Ease Up (Into Love)” is a polished studio work, establishing thoughtful routes through both the harmonic landscape and exploiting acoustic instruments with broad expressive capacity.

From glimmering hums to full-bodied sweeps, Jay Elle follows alertly, exploiting the many voices he has, adding textures and shaping the melody, sometimes drawing the harmonic material together to form one cohesive piece.

Although many of us struggle with underlying feelings of being unlovable, Jay Elle reconfigures his songwriting to accommodate our emotions. The singer-songwriter from New York City encourages you to take the slow and steady road, and ease yourself up into the relationship.