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- Summary: The Florist's singer-songwriter Emily Sprague self-recorded this release after a number of circumstances including a break-up and a death in the family made it difficult to get the band together to record it.
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- Record Label: Double Double Whammy
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Jul 29, 2019She writes songs that hover entrancingly, enticing the listener not with tractor-beam beats or huge hooks, but with a persistent and wholehearted interest in reaching your heart and speaking to it in a way that only it can understand.
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Jul 29, 2019Emily Alone is a landmark LP, recorded swiftly to perfectly capture urgent beauty and raw authenticity in its purest forms.
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Jul 29, 2019With such simple arrangements, Sprague’s writing can sound like an intimate conversation, with larger context left unsaid. ... The more directly she composes her thoughts, the fuller the music becomes.
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Jul 29, 2019The resulting Emily Alone is a devastating, unapologetically vulnerable set of 12 ruminative guitar and keyboard songs, one of which is entirely spoken ("Still").
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Jul 29, 2019She leaves enough open spaces to invite some speculation and creative faculty, but by all accounts, this is the story she had to tell during this period in her life.
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