{"id":244036,"date":"2026-07-15T15:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244036\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:10:38","slug":"local-album-review-elias-if-only-rare-embers-late-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244036\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Album Review \/\/ elias, if only \/\/ RARE EMBERS, LATE SPRING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eriereader.com\/image\/scale\/auto\/auto\/articles\/944282_album-elias-if-only.jpg\" class=\"lightbox_img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/944282_album-elias-if-only.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-released<\/p>\n<p>4.5\/5 stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The evolution of Erie independent artist\/songwriter\/you-name-it Eli Kerr (under the moniker elias, if only) has been fascinating to watch. Not unlike another local songwriter, Brian the Fly, longtime observers have seen Kerr&#8217;s production evolve from hip-hop to indie-flavored songwriting and even country music, once again landing somewhere new on the immediately fascinating RARE EMBERS, LATE SPRING. With hardly any vocals featured throughout the record&#8217;s efficient 30-minute runtime, listeners will instantly be hooked by the chillwave-influenced guitars on album opener &#8220;APRIL 15 (TAXES II),&#8221; which feels like a midpoint between 2000s indie and Mk.gee&#8217;s current run. But the album gets weirder from there, and that&#8217;s not a bad thing; amongst snippets of dialogue and conversation are warbly, soft keys and pleasant guitar noodling (&#8220;FAT BIRD&#8221;). In fact, if one were forced to come up with a comparison, RARE EMBERS, LATE SPRING sounds a bit like A24&#8217;s latest signee ear (an ambient electropop duo from New York) \u2013 but in the most thrilling way. The latest from elias, if only sounds like the distillation of a dozen influences boiled down into something completely fresh.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Self-released 4.5\/5 stars The evolution of Erie independent artist\/songwriter\/you-name-it Eli Kerr (under the moniker elias, if only) has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[69666,104496,136,138,137,104498,20289,104497],"class_list":["post-244036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-aaron-mook","tag-elias-if-only","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-late-spring","tag-local-album-review","tag-rare-embers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}