Lizzy McAlpine, who is touring in support of her new album, “Older,” photographed at home in Los Angeles. “It’s super disheartening as an artist,” McAlpine says, recounting the episode from her L.A. home two weeks later. “But it’s also hard to see people only care, seemingly, about one song, especially after I’ve just released this new album that feels the …
The opening track on folk-pop singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine’s third album, “Older,” is only one minute and 40 seconds long. In that time, “The Elevator” carries the listener into McAlpine’s internal world, climbing a steady piano melody toward a drum-led instrumental before the song meets an abrupt end — depositing the listener at the second track, but more importantly, in the …
