With “If You Don’t Know by Now,” Elli Perry and Drew Cullen Miller Weave a Slow-Burning Visual Ballad.
American singer-songwriter Elli Perry releases “If You Don’t Know by Now,” the third single and music-video herald for her forthcoming LP, GHOST TALKER. Framed by director Drew Cullen Miller and steadied by Grammy-nominated producer Andrew Sovine, the film doesn’t just decorate the song—it bring it to life. Perry sings from a vast bed of dead flowers that, shot by shot, exhales into a superbloom, as if regret itself were photosynthetic. She folds a miniature boat with shoemaker patience, a totem for the message-in-a-bottle the track keeps promising. Then she runs—twenty miles from the Atlantic coast through Savannah’s moss-draped oaks—until the camera lands in the neon of a neighbourhood dive, where the band strikes the song’s quiet-then-sudden climax.
The mood is chill, but not inert. It’s a tempered drift that loosens the shoulders and clears the chest. Sparse production keeps the air uncluttered, letting Perry’s timbre slip from hush to wail without theatrics. Andrew Sovine’s pedal steel glints like brine on dusk water, while drummer Jalen Reyes and bassist Dylan Puckett apply a slow-burn undertow nudging the piece toward Americana—a different orbit than much of GHOST TALKER’s grit-laced, ’90s-shadowed palette. Perry has called the track a favorite and the pair—song and film—some of her most meaningful work. On screen, that claim feels earned: a message-in-a-bottle finally reaching shore, calming the heart while quietly re-arranging it.
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