Jean Elliot is back with “This Room,” a slow-moving and absolutely gripping track that doesn’t just haunt you—it settles into your bones. The North-Western Sydney songwriter has built a reputation for weaving folk, indie rock, country, and swamp blues into cinematic worlds, but this release feels like she’s tapping into something even darker and more potent.
From the first low, rattling guitar, “This Room” drags you into a space where myth and memory blur with the uneasy quiet of the Australian landscape. Elliot writes from the shadows—small towns, lonely roads, the things that lurk just outside the porch light—and this track turns those shadows into a metaphor for a chilling truth: violence that goes unseen, unspoken, and unacknowledged.
Inspired by The Blue Dahlia, Twin Peaks, and slowcore icons like Duster and Good Night & Good Morning, “This Room” simmers with quiet rage. Ambient drones swell into a creeping wall of noise, reflecting the story of a character who slips away unnoticed—a reflection of countless real-world tragedies ignored by neighbours, media, and those in power. It’s delicate, conceptual, and furious all at once.
The single expands the world she began revealing with “O’ Anywhere,” leading into her upcoming project Preycatcher—a lush, unsettling exploration of hunter and prey. Banjo, slide guitar, drone, and overdriven rock textures come together to form a mythology-tinged universe of fear, longing, and escape.
Live, Jean Elliot and her five-piece band take these stories and push them into something almost theatrical—cathartic, hypnotic, and impossible to look away from.
“This Room” isn’t just a song; it’s a reckoning wrapped in dust, noise, and narrative power.
‘This Room’ is an eerie, cinematic slowcore piece that confronts unseen violence with haunting clarity.
