Oakland, CA’s Elujay is a jack of all trades as a musician—playing bass guitar & electric guitar as well as singing, songwriting, producing, and even directing music videos—and, as he shows us on his new song “All U Gotta Do,” a Jack of Hearts.

“Are U ever / This late?” the young man begins to croon over his echoing electric guitar, an old record player’s crackle and a hot beat, recalling to mind the deep, heartfelt hurt in the songs of classic 60’s and 70’s R&B,with a cutting contemporary edge.

By the heartbreakingly triumphant titular chorus, the layered, refracted vocals hit like those of a deeply-yearning soul singer trapped in a Hall of Mirrors, looking at himself, searching for the image of his love.

Written by Annie Mok