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EMA announces debut album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 10 February 2011
EMA has announced details of her debut album ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, which is slated for release on 9 May through Souterrain Transmissions. Not much is known about Erika M Anderson except that she comes from South Dakota, and used to be part of both folk act Amps For Christ and revelatory cult duo Gowns.
EMA apparently references her Viking ancestry in album-opener ‘Grey Ship’, which is a song of two parts. Commenting on the midway shift from lo to hi-fi in that track, she says: “I imagined it being like when Dorothy opens the door to Oz and the whole world turns from black and white to Technicolor”.
Explore this for yourself with a free listen to ‘Grey Ship’ here: souterraintransmissions.com/files/EMA%20-%20The%20Grey%20Ship.mp3
Also see the complete tracklisting:
Grey Ship
California
Anteroom
Milkman
Coda
Marked
Breakfast
Butterfly Knife
Red Star
