View basket “Towering Failures” has been added to your basket. First Love Emmy The Great SKU: PL01LP Barcode: 193483593357 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Plumeria Released Date: 14th June 2019 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Video Description Product Info Emmy the Great’s debut album First Love will be re-issued on vinyl on June 14th, pre-ceded by a UK-wide tour to mark its tenth anniversary. The album will be accompanied by new liner notes by Emmy + digital download code of full album and bonus tracks It was an era of Myspace and indie-bands with strict haircuts. A handful of scratchy de-mos in home-made packaging began appearing around London venues, on tube seats and in between pages in second-hand bookstores. These were the first recordings by Emmy the Great, born Emma-Lee Moss. Emerging as part of the early-2000’s London singer-songwriter boom, she soon established herself as an original voice, her songs made of long, lyric-heavy stories wrapped around acoustic guitars barely played in tune. First Love, recorded in Lancashire in the late spring of 2008 and released the following February, came to soundtrack an innocent age of early Internet. A break-up album, it channeled a young woman’s heartache through fictional vignettes, set against pastoral scenes – an imagined English landscape, green and hopeful that Moss describes as ‘the England of my dreams’. The first single, We Almost Had a Baby, told the story of a linger-ing connection between ex-lovers, backed by sha-lala girl-group vocals. Meanwhile, title track First Love was a homage to Leonard Cohen named for a Samuel Beckett novella – the ultimate expression of her penchant for literary allusions and the dropped names of musical heroes. Spreading slowly through word of mouth, it eventually ranked number 7 on the New York Times Albums of the Year in 2009, earning cult status with audiences around the world. It was self-produced and self-released, setting the tone for Moss’ career, in which she has continued to defy both convention and expectation. She continues to release albums, while also working as a journalist, composer, and radio presenter. In 2017, she gave a TED talk about translating her songs into Cantonese and Mandarin. Says Moss, “The year that First Love came out was another time for women in music, it was another time for artists of colour. I battled with myself and with the industry to make the music that sounded right to me, and, while some people got that, others told me it would never work out.” “When I released the album, it was a leap of faith. Over the years, there has been a steady stream of people telling me that leap was worth it for them. The fact that it continues to mean something to these audiences is, to me, the highest accolade. Artist Emmy The Great Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Plumeria Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 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 pt 2 11.Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe 12.Everything Reminds Me of You 13.City Song Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Emmy The Great and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Emmy The Great April / 月音 Rock And Pop | Bella Union | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th October 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emmy The Great April / 月音 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA1080V Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emmy The Great Second Love Rock And Pop | Bella Union | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th March 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emmy The Great Second Love £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union SKU: BELLA530V Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Super Unison Auto Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Deathwish Inc. | 1LP Released 14th October 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Super Unison Auto £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Deathwish Inc. 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