Ava Joe Announces Her Debut EP ‘Try Me’ With The Moody 'Eleanor Close'

Ava Joe doesn’t play the victim, even when she’s singing about heartbreak. Her debut EP 'Try Me' is five tracks of slow-burn intensity; dusty guitars, jazz-leaning melodies, and lyrics that cut deeper the more you sit with them.

The London-based artist moves like someone who’s already lived twice, channelling smoky soul and the blunt poetry of lived experience into songs that feel cinematic but never distant.

New single Eleanor Close leads the announcement. The track carries the kind of atmosphere you’d expect from a Western shot through a noir lens. Guitar lines drift in like distant thunder. It’s moody but intentional, and it frames Ava’s voice perfectly; restrained one second, unravelling the next. She’s not chasing clean narratives or tidy conclusions. She’s recounting emotional wreckage, still smouldering.

That honesty runs through the whole EP. Try Me takes you through cycles of domination, love, submission, and loss. But it’s not framed as a confessional, it’s more of a confrontation. Ava Joe wrote these songs while pushing herself toward the edge, immersed in relationships marked by chaos and control.

“I was chasing danger,” she says, “because it was the only thing that made me feel anything.”

That tension, between agency and destruction, is what gives the EP its pulse.

Tracks like Black Summer Babe, Black Smoke, and Polly Pocket have already introduced listeners to her world. There’s no posturing here, just a young artist pushing through romantic disillusionment with disarming clarity. She’s got range too: drawing as much from Americana as she does from the London soul tradition, flickering between Amy Winehouse’s rawness and the alienation of early Radiohead.

Try Me isn’t an easy listen, and that’s the point. It’s messy, bold, and personal. Ava Joe isn’t looking for pity or redemption, she’s just telling the truth.