Description

After the success of 2011rsquos lsquoPast Life Martyred Saintsrsquo and 2014rsquos prophetic lsquoThe Futurersquos Voidrsquo, EMA retreated to a basement in Portland, Oregon ndash a generic apartment complex in a nontrendy neighbourhood, with beige carpeting and cheap slat blinds. Now, she returns, with a portrait of The Outer Ring A pitchblack world of dark night highways, American flags hung over basement windows, jails and revival meetings and casinos and rage. In a year dominated by white workingclass alienation and anger, EMA ndash a Midwesterner who never lost her thousandyard stare has delivered an album that renders Middle American poverty and resentment with frightening realism and deep empathy.ldquoI want to explain to outsiders that the people where I come from arenrsquot beyond hope and reasonrdquo, says EMA, ldquoI want this record to bridge a divide.rdquo EMA LP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £16