To celebrate her November live dates with Zola Jesus, EMA releases ‘Marked’ on 14 November.
This is an intensely sweaty-sway of a track and explores a complicated relationship, over an eerie guitar strum and keyboard drone, where EMA intones raspily, “I wish that every time he touched me / Left a mark”. It is the captured sound of climbing walls. You can check out the video here. It was directed, shot and produced in-house by Leif Shackelford and Erika M. Anderson.
EMA is touring right now! Have a look at all EMA tour dates here.
EMA’s brilliantly feedback-scuffed debut pop album Past Life Martyred Saints was released to a blizzard of plaudits in May 2011.
She has been leaving people with mouths agape ever since. Taking festivals by storm, putting in a blistering sold out show at Cargo in September which the FT succinctly called “awesome”, covered Nirvana’s ‘Endless Nameless’ for Spin’s 20thanniversary of Nevermind and been chosen as one of Converse’s ‘History In the Making’ campaign names. She was ‘history in the making’ to Karen O’s ‘history made’.
It also goes without saying that she has been recognised as one of the most singular artists to emerge in 2011.
To celebrate her November live dates with Zola Jesus, EMA releases ‘Marked’ on 14 November.
This is an intensely sweaty-sway of a track and explores a complicated relationship, over an eerie guitar strum and keyboard drone, where EMA intones raspily, “I wish that every time he touched me / Left a mark”. It is the captured sound of climbing walls. You can check out the video here. It was directed, shot and produced in-house by Leif Shackelford and Erika M. Anderson.
The AA is exclusive to this release in the form of ‘Angelo’ and features a special guest turn from Oakland’s very own Mz'Gorjis of Platnum Platnum.
Have a look at all EMA tour dates here.
“Phenomenal debut album” 5/5 Sunday Times ‘CD of the Week’
“Blending roughness with beauty could be said to be EMA’s thing”
‘Debut Album of the Month’ 4/5 Uncut
“Deliriously woozy thrill-ride” 4/5 Mojo
“She’s already sailed miles past the ‘bright hope’ stage and is well on her way to lo-fi legend” Time Out
“Dark, devilish and utterly intriguing, this is an album to lose yourself in” 4/5 The Fly
“Masterful handling of each of the nine tracks makes this a truly one-off debut” 4/5 The Sun
“EMA’s raw power serves heartening evidence of a tough, fearless talent” The Independent
“9/10” Loud & Quiet
“4/5” Stool Pigeon
“4/5” Financial Times
“A whole heap of Americana awesome” NME
“An enchanting listen… EMA could well become a new icon” Qthemusic
“Packed with epiphanies it may be, but this album invites one more: that of the listener discovering it” The Quietus
“A rare 'DiScover' recommendation...You're sucked into an ornate vortex of a true artist, who is not just making songs but building a planet for us to inhabit” Drowned in Sound
“EMA: she's curse-inducingly good” The Guardian ‘New Band of the Day’
“Past Life Martyred Saints is a remarkably accomplished record” 4/5 The Skinny
“She’s a wonder to behold” Pitchfork
“One of the year’s most important artists” Spin.com
“Spellbinding noise-folk confessionals” Rollingstone.com
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