We first heard Emmy The Great when she provided some sweet-as-hell backing vocals to the fantastic Lightspeed Champion album. “Who’s that girl with the lovely voice?” we thought. And then: “I wonder if she has a record of her own?” She didn’t have a record of her own, but by the miracle of MySpace we tracked her down and bombarded her with emails asking her to send us some of her homespun recordings. She very graciously did. Her excellent self-released EP “My Bad” arrived in the mail and we’ve been listening to it on repeat ever since. Emmy is 23 years old, lives in London, writes genius songs and sings them in a beautiful soft, whispery voice. She’s funny too. Her blog is liable to make you laugh out loud. We honestly don’t have a favorite song, it was really very hard to choose just one video to post here, but we chose “Easter Parade” because we like the animation with the pile of books. If you like this song, check out her other videos on YouTube – “MIA”, “Gabriel” “City Song”. Emmy The Great will be playing some shows in the US next month. She plays on the London Calling bill at the Bowery Ballroom on March 11th and on March 17th at the Roxy in LA. And she’ll be at SXSW. We recommend absolutely NOT missing her.
