Eliza McLamb (born January 17, 2001) is an American indie rock musician from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Early life and education Eliza McLamb was born on January 17, 2001, and grew up an only child in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her mother was a photographer. McLamb graduated high school a year early as the valedictorian and went to George Washington University to study political science, planning to go on to law school. In 2020, during her second year, she had to move back in with her father in North Carolina due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The same year, McLamb was "inspired" by the newly released album Fetch the Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple, and left her father's house to work on farms, through WWOOF, across the country during the summer. She lived in a friend's shed for a few months in Los Angeles while working as a door-to-door solar panel salesperson, and then nannied to make enough money to move in with another friend, Julia Hava.
In 2024, McLamb left Los Angeles and moved into an apartment with her boyfriend in New York, stating she "felt stranded out there"—a feeling she explored in her 2024 single, "God Take Me Out of LA".
Career McLamb first gained recognition when her song "Porn Star Tits" went viral on TikTok while McLamb was working on a farm in Kansas. In 2022, McLamb released her second EP titled Salt Circle. Also in 2022, McLamb announced that she had signed to Canadian record label Royal Mountain Records. In late 2023, she announced plans to release her debut full-length album, Going Through It. McLamb released the song "16" as a single from the album. The album was released on January 19, 2024.
Going Through It has received positive reception from critics. Grace Robins-Somerville of Paste magazine said that the album "shows a characteristically thoughtful embrace of life’s subtleties and contradictions." Graeme Thomson of the Spectator described the album as "relentless guts-spilling" that "isn’t necessarily any more creatively worthy or valuable than simply making stuff up" before referring to McLamb as "an artist of many parts, not all of them yet fully formed." However, Thomson noted that there is "actually lots to like about Going Through It."
McLamb released her second album, Good Story, on October 24, 2025 via Royal Mountain.
In addition to making music, McLamb co-hosted the podcast Binchtopia alongside Julia Hava from 2020 to 2025, before leaving as a permanent host in order to focus on her music career.
McLamb also writes a Substack blog called words from eliza, which made waves when she published an essay titled "Fake Fans" about the guerrilla marketing tactics of a company called Chaotic Good Projects. The company was extensively covered in the media shortly after as discourse broke out regarding their strategies.
Discography
Studio albums Title Details Going Through It Released: January 19, 2024 Label: Royal Mountain Format: CD, digital download, LP, streaming Good Story Released: October 24, 2025 Label: Royal Mountain Format: CD, digital download, LP, streaming
Extended plays Title Details Memos Released: December 29, 2020 Label: Lena Grove Format: Digital download, streaming Salt Circle Released: December 2, 2022 Label: Royal Mountain Format: CD, digital download, streaming
Singles Title Year Album "Ghosts" 2020 "Debt" Memos "Irish Exit" 2021 "Doing Fine" 2022 Salt Circle "Pulp" "Mythologize Me" 2023 Going Through It "Glitter" "Anything You Want" "16" "Modern Woman" 2024 "God Take Me Out of LA" rowspan="3" "Lena Grove" "Quitting" 2025 "Like the Boys" Good Story "Every Year" "Suffering" "Forever, Like That"
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