119. Single Review of I’m Scared (To Fall in Love Again) by Liz Bills
Originally Published on April 25th, 2025
About the Artist
I LOVE just happening across new artists. I have to ask.. What is HAPPENING in the New England area of the US right now??? This is the SECOND artist that I just happened to find on social media this month that has stopped me in my tracks!
I want everybody to pay attention and hear me when I say “go right now and listen to Liz Bills.
Debuting in 2017 with the single Werewolf, Liz Bills & the Change are a Roots and Psychedelic rock band out of the Boston area. Werewolf is an acoustic groove with bongos for percussion and ambient electric guitars played in the background. The HIGHLIGHT of this track are the incredible vocals performed by Liz Bills. Like “take my fucking money,” incredible vocals.
The following month, November of 2017, Liz Bills released their debut EP, the self-titled Liz Bills. This features 4 songs, including Werewolf and has a run time of around 14 minutes. The EP, like Werewolf is stripped down; just an acoustic guitar, bongos, and subtle ambience in the background. The feature, again, are the extraordinary vocals provided by Liz Bills.
Liz Bills wouldn’t have another release for 3 year, when they would release the song Mama's Song, an acoustic ballad featuring Liz Bills on vocals accompanied by an arpeggiated guitar part.
Later in 2020, Liz Bills would release their first full band project, with the single Wi-Hi, a psychedelic groove about the cultural phenomenon/collective addiction of social media. If it can be believed, Liz Bills vocal performance is significantly improving (improving!) as she channels an emotionally charged platform to the lyrical context of the song.
There is a strong similarity to Maggie Rogers as Liz Bills are exploring a symbiotic relationship between roots and psychedelic music.
In April of 2021, they released a groovy, almost funk-influenced uptempo single in Come Back Down to Me. The vocals again. Inspiring performance. All I am going to say; a cappella bridge breakdown.
In August of 2021, Liz Bills & The Change released their debut LP, the self-titled album Liz Bills & The Change; an 8-song 31 minute display of psychedelic rock excellence. Somebody Else flourishes with musicality, as it showcases rhythmic, dynamic changes and Liz Bills vocally soars throughout each transition effortlessly. This is immediately followed by the song Home, which has a striking similarity to the song High and Dry by Radiohead. Then, immediately after that song, the stripped down song When I'm With You further showcases the extraordinary vocal performance of Liz Bills.
The LP features previously released singles Mama’s song, Wi-Hi, and closes with Come Back Down to Me.
The following summer, Liz Bills releases another clinic in vocal performance with their song Real Love.
As I continue to listen, I am seriously trying to determine if this is real life. This band have won t Pop Act of the Year at the New England Music Awards. They’ve won Roots and Rock act of the year. They’ve opened up for Bon Jovi. They’ve opened up for American Idol alumni, Daughtry. I’m simultaneously asking myself whether I should be happy to have discovered this band today or pissed off that they have been around for nearly a decade and I am JUST NOW finding them. I am going to be an optimist and be grateful.
And, I am going to PAY IT FORWARD!
About the Song
I'm Scared (To Fall in Love Again) is the latest single by the New England- based Liz Bills. A significant change stylistically, this piano ballad has a runtime of 3 minutes and released today, April 25th, 2025.
About the Music
I could listen to this song 100 times in a row. I still might. It is nothing but a piano accompaniment that switches from block chords to arpeggiated chords. Instrumentally, moderately simple performance. Vocally, that’s a different story. The list of performers who can achieve this dynamic and diverse performance so effortlessly is an exclusive one.
Stylistically, this song is R&B through and through. There is an immense vulnerability to the music. I mean, she really put herself out there with the lyrics. This is one of the most emotionally charged songs I’ve ever heard.
Final Thoughts
It is a god damned shame that Liz Bills isn’t in streaming in every household right now. Their music eclipse so many mainstream performers of the same or relative genres.
I have said this before, I have written it before. In 30 years in association with the music industry, I have seen artists cross over to mainstream who I thought didn’t really deserve to be there and I have seen and heard amazing acts get their shots and not pan out. There are a number of factors that can play into these things happening or not happening. Publicity, promotion, priority, representation, and on and on and on. Some of the most talented people I know don’t want to make it in the music industry. They just love to perform.
But, at the end of the day, none of this is needed. It is all in the definition of what “making it” is. It doesn’t matter if Liz Bills is a mainstream artist. What matters is that, today, they got a random listener to press play. I am going to strongly encourage other listeners to do the same. That is the name of the game. But, even if it doesn’t happen, I am privileged to have heard this music. I won’t stop listening to this music. My experience with music and my perception of it have changed after hearing this immaculate music. Liz Bills are special. I can’t help who knows that.
How lucky I am, to have learned it myself.
You can also see scheduled showtimes, additional information on the band, and purchase merch at their official website.
I'm Scared (To Fall in Love Again) released on April 25th and is out all places that stream music!
You don’t want to be the one to say you didn’t go press play when you could have! So, do it now!
Go press play!
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