Indie folk music’s favourite lyrically outrageous beauty is back with four brand new and brilliant tracks for your undoubtedly grateful consumption.Since seeing Emmy for the first time at Norwich Arts Centre earlier this year on the very same day her debut album ‘First Love’ was released, I just haven’t been able to get enough of [...]
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The rather wonderful Emmy The Great has confirmed an upcoming new EP containing strictly older material. Titled the Edward EP, the four-track record is set for release on August 10th through her own Cold Harbour label. Explaining why she decided to re-record old songs instead of new, Emmy said: "Recording this EP brought back a lot of memories of when songwriting was done on a whim, and before...
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Emmy The Great plays a one-off show on the Southbank with supprt from Aidan Moffet and Sleeping States. Southbank Centre are also giving away an exclusive remix of one of her songs by Simon Raymonde!
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There are times when taking a cab is the only answer. The weather is crap, your shoes are not fit for walking from here to the corner (nevermind ten city blocks), you're too drunk to stand, it's 3 a.m. and you're in a sketchy neighborhood, or you're in an unfortunate walk-of-shame moment and need to escape NOW. Cabs may get a bad rep, like when they never show up to get you, but in my late nigh...
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British singer-songwriter Emmy the Great has announced that she will be releasing her debut album this February. Titled "First Love" it will be released on Febraury 2. The album was inspired by Samuel Beckett's short story "First Love" and Oscar Wilde's play Salome . It was recorded at a Lancashire studio and produced by Emmy's guitarist Euan Hinshelwood and pianist Tom Rogerson. She has also...
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I’ve had my hands on Emmy The Great’s album First Love for a few months now and I figure, this review is probably really overdue, especially since Allan wrote about her then-upcoming release way back in January.My friends and I had been waiting for an album release since discovering her several years back, but [...]Related posts:Emmy The Great - First Love Video + Track Listing Emmy The Great
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9 MOGstars out of TenWhen Dante led us on a trip through the depths of Hell, it appears he left out one of its infamous circles. Yes, somewhere between the traitors and the bankers lurks a special kind of sinner - the slick hipster who uses his musical knowledge to seduce the sweet and simple songstresses that pass by his web. Fortunately for us, Emmy the Great, the latest (and evidently most m...
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As I crept into a packed Spiller's Records for the free five o'clock performance, squished next to wet duffel coats and dirty Ugg Boots - I knew that I was surrounded by the expectation and ...
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'First Love' is Emmy the Great's debut album. It is described by the press release as 'a debut album of savage observations and stark admissions, cloaked in arrangements of disarming simplicity and beguiling melody'. Admittedly I was excited by this (rather arrogant) statement, but I also thought I had an idea of the sort of person this 'Emmy' is - one of those beings who think that they're 'wa...
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CMJ: It's not all beer and bands, you CAN have fun too as David Laurie proves.. TLOBF takes it to the streets of NYC for the annual music and arts marathon.
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9 MOGstars out of TenWhen Dante led us on a trip through the depths of Hell, it appears he left out one of its infamous circles. Yes, somewhere between the traitors and the bankers lurks a special kind of sinner - the slick hipster who uses his musical knowledge to seduce the sweet and simple songstresses that pass by his web. Fortunately for us, Emmy the Great, the latest (and evidently most m...
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There are times when taking a cab is the only answer. The weather is crap, your shoes are not fit for walking from here to the corner (nevermind ten city blocks), you're too drunk to stand, it's 3 a.m. and you're in a sketchy neighborhood, or you're in an unfortunate walk-of-shame moment and need to escape NOW. Cabs may get a bad rep, like when they never show up to get you, but in my late nigh...
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The rather wonderful Emmy The Great has confirmed an upcoming new EP containing strictly older material. Titled the Edward EP, the four-track record is set for release on August 10th through her own Cold Harbour label. Explaining why she decided to re-record old songs instead of new, Emmy said: "Recording this EP brought back a lot of memories of when songwriting was done on a whim, and before...
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Another cute girl with an acoustic guitar and Leonard Cohen references has stolen my heart... still, there are worse people to fall in love with...
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But today is not that day. So let's spend it with her, under the covers...
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| 2 24 |
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| 3 We Almost Had a Baby |
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| 4 The Easter Parade |
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| 5 Dylan |
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