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| 1. Absentee |
| 2. 24 |
| 3. We Almost Had A Baby |
| 4. The Easter Parade |
| 5. Dylan |
| 6. On The Museum Island |
| 7. War |
| 8. First Love |
| 9. MIA |
| 10. The Easter Parade part 2 |
| 11. Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe |
| 12. Everything Reminds Me Of You |
| 13. City Song |
| 14. Edward Is Dedwood |
| 15. A Bowl Collecting Blood |
| 16. Two Steps Forward |
| 17. Canopies And Drapes |
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As vitriol-attracting stage names go, Emmy The Great is up there with the worst. Perhaps even more troublesome is the hype that's gathered around Emma-Lee Moss in the four years she's been working her way up from the indie underground. Lucky then, that her debut album is worth the wait.
The London-based singer-songwriter falls into the already crowded bracket of quirky, folky types interpreting the contents of their hearts with acoustic guitars, pianos and various twinkly extras. But First Love is a deceptive collection; while Emmy's wavering, girlish vocals give the impression of a lightweight tone, her lyrics are unexpectedly heavy.
Take 24. Ostensibly a drawn-out moan about a boyfriend who watches too much Jack Bauer, the track blossoms into an epic existential crisis, lamenting, ''24 for every year that I have slipped day by day into the neck of the abyss''.
Things shift stylistically too - moving from the sparse contemplation of Museum Island to fiddle-tinged Celtic folk on Dylan and We Are Safe. A foray into 60s-style sugar-pop on single We Almost Had A Baby is less convincing, and the overblown choral work of Easter Parade outstays its welcome long before the three and a half minutes are up.
The strongest indication of Emmy's greatness comes in the title track; an intricate, winding work of near-brilliance, made all the more powerful by its reworking of what the singer herself attributes in the song as ''Hallelujah, the original Leonard Cohen version''. It's not quite a flawless debut, but a sign that great things are to be expected. --Zofia Niemtus
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly charming,
This review is from: First Love - Bonus Edition (Audio CD)
I heard "We almost had a baby" a good while ago on the radio and instantly fell in love with it and downloaded it. But it wasn't until I heard Emmy the Great do a live session whilst at Glastonbury that I decided to download the album. There isn't one track that I don't like.
The lyrics are modern and sometimes a bit odd, so their meanings are always immediately obvious, which I think adds to their charm. Some tracks are haunting such as "Absentee", "24" and "On the Museum Island". Others are more upbeat in their tune, though still have a sombre subject, such as "We almost had a baby", "First Love" and "MIA". My favourites are "24", "MIA", "We almost had a baby", "Edward is Dedward". But as I said, I don't think there are any weak parts. The bonus tracks are all definitely worth the addition.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Always come back to this,
By Hntaj (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: First Love (Bonus Edition) (MP3 Download)
It's one of those albums (and one of those artists) that if you are lucky enough to stumble across you will listen to it on repeat, go on and on about her to anyone who will listen to you "no, seriously, she's genius". It contains some of the best lyrics of any music of any genre, heartbreaking and (thought I don't know how she does it) funny, things that will stick in your head and your heart.
"Take some time out to resuscitate my soul. Take up smoking and drink carrot juice and grow. Teach the mattress to erase you from its folds. Then dry my eyes and keep on moving til the motion makes me strong, til one day I realise I don't remember that you're gone. We'll be strangers, who were lovers, I'll recover. It's so weird how time goes on"- Canopies and Drapes. p.s. and I never write reviews.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Emmy's honest and thought-provoking lyrics work overall with her catchy tunes,
By Kat Watt "katprocrastinate" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: First Love (Bonus Edition) (MP3 Download)
I stumbled across Emmy the Great's (or Emma-Lee Moss) "First Love" after listening to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" on youtube - some clever fan had grouped them together on a playlist. I was immediately struck by Emmy herself; her personality seemed plain and honest as did her song writing. The use of instruments on the track and later the lyrics and the story behind it also lived up to these first impressions. Tracks like "24", "Edward Is Deadward", "Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe" and "Two Steps Forward" were painful and accurate accounts of emotion and attachement and "We Almost Had a Baby", "MIA", "City Song" and "Canopies and Drapes" also confirmed by attachment to Emmy's lyrical content of religious doubt, relationship dynamic and childhood memory with a splattering of played down drama. "The Easter Parade" was the last song to really grab my attachement, gradually growing on me as the track wound up to a grabbing conclusion. The other tracks continue in the general mood of catchy guitar based melodies and Moss's sometimes bluntly honest and succinct lyrics. An album most certainly worth a listen, especially for fans of a similiar genre or associated acts; if a bit heavy on the content considering Emmy's style.
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