Avant-garde singer ESKA delivers jaw-dropping Music Box session

The Independent

The final Music Box episode of the latest season stars Mercury Prize-shortlisted singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist ESKA, who delivered spine-tingling renditions of two songs from her latest album, 2025’s The Ordinary Life of a Magic Woman.Her first full-length solo project in a decade, this avant-garde collection of songs includes the tracks “Fazerfolk” and “All the Way Down”. It follows her 2015 debut, ESKA, which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.

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00:00All I want to do is take the chance to swim among the love things

00:15Get along, let's get along or we fall all the way down

00:30If we had the mind to stop believing and forget, forget where we came from

00:36Get along, let's get along or we fall all the way down

01:00If we had the mind to stop believing and forget, forget where we came from

01:18Get along, let's get along or we fall all the way down

01:24Swimming to the low

01:50Or fall all the way down

01:56We've got to get along

02:01Shine bright in the golden sky

02:07Look what we have done

02:11Look what we've been done

02:17Come, we come

02:23Come, we come

02:35All I want to do is swim among the love things

02:44All I want to do is swim among the love things

02:50La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

03:20I love you

03:50Long way out

04:10Now reaching for my door

04:13Way, way out

04:19Among the face of fall

04:21Prophesy and read the skies

04:44Limbless lives and piles from my eyes

04:53There'll be no heroes, no villains

04:58They can't be found

05:01All the way out

05:11Now reaching for my door

05:14Way, way out

05:20I'm on the face of fall

05:23I'm on the face of fall

05:25Wailing at the wall

05:34The wall

05:37Wailing

05:39I'm singing

05:43Alleluia

05:47Alleluia

05:52Alleluia

06:01Alleluia

06:05Alleluia

06:07Alleluia

06:09Alleluia

06:14Alleluia

06:18Alleluia

06:31Alleluia

06:35Alleluia

06:37I'm gonna give the dog a bone now

06:53I'm gonna give the dog a bone

06:58Use the sickle of the sword now

07:02Use the sickle of the sword now

07:08Hallelujah

07:12Hallelujah

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