Indira Ellis Explores Love and Libations in ‘Painkiller’

Indira Ellis delivers a shimmering alt-pop confession with “Painkiller,” her second single of 2024.

The track marries sleek disco grooves with anthemic alt-rock crescendos, crafting a sonic love letter as intoxicating as the cocktail it’s named after. Ellis’ classically trained vocals glide between nostalgia and modern urgency, embodying the reckless romance of someone who “liked said drink too much.”

Speaking about the inspiration behind the single, she comments, “I wrote this song about the cocktail it’s named after, and a person who liked said drink too much.”

From its synth-laced verses to its cathartic finale, “Painkiller” showcases Ellis’s gift for weaving theatrical flair into razor-sharp pop—a testament to her journey from musical theater to New York’s alt scene. A cocktail of heartache and euphoria, stirred with her signature emotional precision.

With ‘Painkiller’, Indira Ellis serves up a heady mix of alt-pop shimmer and disco-laced euphoria—equal parts intoxication and heartache. It’s a love song with a bite, dressed in glitter and grit, and proof that Ellis is fast becoming a force in the new wave of emotionally charged pop

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