Eliza Noxon announces debut album Good Monsters with Bad Habits out February 27

Eliza Noxon announces debut album Good Monsters with Bad Habits
out February 27

Stream new single"You"

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On February 27, Eliza Noxon will release her debut full-length album Good Monsters With Bad Habits. Today she is excited to release the album's lead single "You," a stark and emotionally charged introduction to the record, built around spacious guitars and a rising vocal performance that traces the raw edges of grief. The song, along with its accompanying music video, debuted today at Magnet Magazine and is on all digital platforms now for playlist shares.
Reflecting on the song, Eliza says:
“I wrote this song in a dark, chilly dorm room in May of 2021, a little over a year after the death of my brother. Thinking back to that time, it didn’t seem like a year had passed. The grief was still all consuming. I felt isolated from the people around me, stuck in a loop of missing him, seeing him in everything, wishing I could turn back time.
The song is a darker, more angry version of my grief than I had expressed before, simple in its construction and lyrics, but raw in a way that I found difficult to access at the time. In writing this song, I found a way to scream and kick and channel all the rage and fear and loss that I felt into something I could use to connect with people.
I think the song really came alive in the studio, with the addition of Jake Reed’s gorgeous, driving drums, and Pierre de Reeder's masterful production. When I play or listen to the song today, it feels like a mass catharsis - I hear the voices of everyone who’s ever lost their person and had to figure out how to keep living with that hole in their heart.”
Eliza Noxon crafts songs that are direct, honest, and deeply human. Blending traditional folk with an indie-rock sensibility, her music explores the tender chaos of loss, identity, and the aching strangeness of growing up. With open tunings and expansive arrangements, her debut record Good Monsters with Bad Habits is at once electric and intimate, a portrait of fractured identity, enduring love, and the long shadow of grief.

She debuted at twelve with her first single, "Hummingbird," which appeared on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and has since garnered over eight million streams. In 2017, she released her first EP, Save Your Breath, and has been slowly building toward Good Monsters ever since. The record was produced by Rilo Kiley bassist Pierre de Reeder, a longtime influence and collaborator.

Good Monsters marks a turning point for Eliza. It began as an attempt to make sense of early adulthood, leaving home, graduating high school, stepping into the unknown. But after the death of her brother in 2019, the album became something else entirely: a lifeline. “Writing these songs saved my life,” she says. “They allowed me to express the depths of my grief without fear of judgment or worry.”

While threaded with memories of her brother, the album ultimately tells a story of survival, how she’s reassembled her sense of self in the years since. The result is raw, vivid, and deeply resonant.

Her sonic touchstones include Big Thief, Typhoon, Pinegrove, and Feist, with lyrics that favor emotional clarity over polish. The music is as searching as it is grounded, reflecting the open tunings and open questions at its core.

Outside of music, she holds degrees in Education and Interdisciplinary Artistic Studies from Brown University, a major she designed blending performance, visual art, and sonic exploration. Since graduating, she’s worked as a puppeteer’s assistant in New York, taught kids to milk cows on a farm in Vermont, and spent a year aboard a schooner in the Caribbean, teaching sailing and sea shanties to underprivileged youth.