{"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","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/first-love-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}