View basket “I’m Glad We’re Friends” has been added to your basket. Us Empress Of SKU: TR079 Barcode: 00602567924241 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Terrible Records Released Date: 19th October 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Insert Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Lorely Rodriguez, the artist known as Empress Of, recorded her new album, Us, all over Southern California. Topanga Canyon. Ojai. At a recording studio “with no windows.” At her home in Highland Park. At another recording studio “with a really loud cricket.” “He was there, like, all month,” she says, “And I was trying to track vocal tracks and he’d be like, CHIRP, CHIRP!” It was the first time she tried to record music this way-sequestered, for a month at a time, in between touring and performing, alone but for the company of a cricket. She would later invite collaborators-Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange), LA production duo Sam Griesemer and Jerome Potter of DJDS, Spanish electronic producer Pional-but the resulting project remains a showcase of Rodriguez’ skill both as a lyricist and a producer, though she is wont to admit it. The artist is modest about her skills as a instrumentalist (“Lorely plays every instrument half-assed,” she says, “Put that in the bio.”) and coy about her process as a writer (“I don’t write out chords for my songs. Everything is intuitive in production. I don’t have one piece of sheet music for my songs.”) She estimates that she’s produced about 70 percent of this album, which serves as the real testament to her dynamism as a musician, since she won’t testify to it herself. She’s frustrated with a media preoccupation on her jazz music education, but only because she believes her experiences singing to Céline Dion and Mariah Carey in the living room of her childhood home in Southern California are far more formative. When pressed about her influences, she lists her mother. Empress Of’s debut album Me was released almost three years ago, in 2015. As the name suggests, it presented a deeply personal exploration of her emotional world. So personal, she says, it was difficult to perform. “It was, like, every day, just giving myself to the audience,” she says. With Us, Rodriguez wanted to facilitate a more equal exchange of energy between herself and her listeners, to create a “community.” “It’s not just love songs. It’s about different experiences of the heart,” she says. “I want it to be like a mirror, and [the audience] sees a little bit of themselves in every song.” Artist Empress Of Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Terrible Records Buying Options 1LP Includes Insert Format 1LP , Includes Insert Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A 1. Everything to Me 2. Just the Same 3. Trust Me Baby 4. Love for Me 5. I Don't Even Smoke Weed Side B 1. Timberlands 2. I've Got Love 3. All for Nothing 4. When I'm With Him 5. 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