Now And Then is an apt title for Eliza & The Delusionals’ debut album, blending the shimmer and pomp of modern-day production with the bubblegum blitheness of ‘90s indie-pop. Channeling cassette-tape classics like The Blue Nile, The Cranberries and Alanis Morissette, Eliza Klatt and co. bring the Limewire’d playlists of their youth into 2022 with a keen ear for the crisp and the cool thanks in no short part to the soul-warming strums of guitarists Kurt Skuse and Tex Martin.
Most of came to life in Skuse and Klatt’s home studio, but that wasn’t the plan: since their breakout in the mid-2010s, Eliza & The Delusionals have become a staple of the North American indie circuit, and before the pandemic hit, they were eyeing off