{"title":"Emmy The Great","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmmy The Great, also known as Emma-Lee Moss, is a singer-songwriter and author. Born on November 4, 1983 in Hong Kong, she grew up in both Hong Kong and the UK. Emmy The Great is not only a solo artist but has also collaborated with various bands throughout her career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer music can be described as folk-inspired indie pop, drawing influences from artists such as Slow Club, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, and Regina Spektor. With heartfelt lyrics and melodic tunes, Emmy The Great's songs resonate with listeners on a deep level.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAside from her musical talents, Emmy The Great has also ventured into writing. Her creativity extends beyond music as she has authored books alongside her musical pursuits. Through her artistry and storytelling abilities, Emmy The Great continues to captivate audiences around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"april-yue-yin","title":"April \/","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new Emmy album coming via Bella Union and very timely with it's subject matter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My story begins with the moon. In September 2017, I travelled to Hong Kong from New York, where I’d lived for three years, for the Mid-Autumn festival. I was planning to visit my parents and take some time off to write my fourth album. I arrived in time for the full moon - Chang-E’s moon - at a time of year when the heat breaks and the city seems alive with possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat Spring, I’d visited China and accidentally become somewhat fluent in Cantonese again, though the goal had been to speak Mandarin. I was there for a music residency, and had expected to feel an instant click. Instead, I realised that Hong Kong had an identity quite separate from the Mainland, and with my mother tongue reinstated, I was beginning to come to terms with that identity being a part of mine. This was tough - I was born in Hong Kong but I’ve always felt complicated about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill, that Mid-Autumn, everything felt simple. Under the guidance of the moon, I walked the city - its neon-lit alleyways, its escalators and mountain paths. For a brief, precious moment, I fell into synch with Hong Kong. I felt its complex legacy and its tangled future. I felt the sorrow, alive in the buzz of neon and the drips of air-conditioner units, of a city caught between two destinies. It was twenty years since the Handover and the beginning of \u003ci\u003eOne Country, Two Systems\u003c\/i\u003e. Everywhere I went, I saw people seeking to define their shared identity before it was too late. I hope some of that spirit has found its way into the songs, which were mostly written during that time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50479174517067,"sku":"1096952","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50479174222155,"sku":"1096953","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/702ce9e2-6ef0-4e45-be15-6b55a57df265_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727503118"},{"product_id":"first-love-2","title":"First Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmmy the Great’s debut album \u003ci\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/i\u003e is re-issued on vinyl to mark its tenth anniversary. The album is accompanied by new liner notes by Emmy. First time on Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was an era of Myspace and indie-bands with strict haircuts. A handful of scratchy demos 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eWe Almost Had a Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, told the story of a lingering connection between ex-lovers, backed by sha-lala girl-group vocals. Meanwhile, title track\u003ci\u003e First Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpreading 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plumeria","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50480888414539,"sku":"1060691","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1a8527bf-1987-46bd-bca3-b68e3c1b6a76_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727529374"},{"product_id":"second-love","title":"Second Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the course of three years, people's lives can change drastically. Often times it's only when we look back that we notice how our routines and relationships have evolved. Emmy the Great, the moniker of Emma-Lee Moss, made this realization as she started to work on her follow-up to 2012's 'Virtue'. Moss originally set out to record an album about technology and the future, but it wasn't long before the present become much more pressing. As she used modern devices to write about love and life, she began to take stock of how much her own life was changing. In three years time, she'd moved from London to Los Angeles, and then once more uprooted and headed to New York. She sustained her musical ambitions by working as a music journalist for Vice and The Guardian. All the while, she quietly analyzed her ever-changing surroundings and personal situations, recording those observations on a laptop whenever she found the time. That led to sessions in over 30 houses across the country as she slowly pieced together new material that recollected the array of experiences she'd had over the last few years. 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