Emma-Lee Moss, known by her stage name Emmy the Great, is a London-based singer-songwriter and journalist. She has released two albums to date, First Love and Virtue. I discovered Emmy the Great after seeing her at Summer Sundae in Leicester just after her first album, the title track, First Love, which details exactly that – a four and a half minute odyssey of self discovery that climatically ends with the only orgasm I ever heard on a song apart from Je t’aime moi non plus as a teenager.
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EMMY the GREAT – ” God Of Lonliness “
Posted: November 15, 2014 in MUSICTags: Emmy the Great, singer songwriter, Swimming Pool
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EMMY The GREAT – ” Swimming Pool “
Posted: November 14, 2014 in MUSICTags: Bella Union, Emmy the Great, singer songwriter, Swimming Pool
With two albums released to date there is a new album due out early next year, Both those albums attracted widespread critical acclaim but, after Virtue, Moss took a break from composing her own albums to engage in a variety of activities that demonstrate her polymath nature, including rock music journalism and blogging, feature writing on cultural issues, philosophising, political activism as well as part-composing the score for the 2013 film Austenland, for which she was Oscar-nominated.
These activities took her away from her West London home to travel Asia and the US widely, with spells in both California and New York and according to her comments about her forthcoming EP ‘S’ (to be released on 26 January on Bella Union) it is the itinerant nature of her recent life and the way in which both she and the world have changed so quickly that influenced the four songs on it. She describes the EP as her trying to engage with the outside world, which she perceives to be “incredibly bright and technologically breathtaking” instead of looking inwardly as she did previously.
The first track, Swimming Pool, includes a backing vocal contribution from Wild Beasts’ Tom Fleming and is a departure from her usually intricate lyrical weave. Her words are far more blunt and to the point.
The Fat Angel Sings 