Elizabeth & the Catapult - Taller Children

What this video is

Released in June 2009 as the title-track music video from Elizabeth & the Catapult's major-label debut on Verve Records, this video documents a pivotal moment in the band's trajectory — transitioning from a Lower East Side club staple to a nationally distributed indie-pop act. The album was recorded at producer Mike Mogis's Omaha studio (known for his work with Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley), embedding the project…

Why it matters

The video represents the piano-pop singer-songwriter strand of late-2000s indie, a subgenre that bridged coffeehouse folk, jazz vocal tradition, and radio-friendly indie pop. Elizabeth Ziman's Berklee classical training and immersion in jazz vocal performance (Fitzgerald, Simone, Holiday) gave the…