Emily Jane White shares new song w/ Stereogum, 'Blood/Lines' out 11/19 on Important Records (copy 01

EMILY JANE WHITE SHARES “KEELEY” WITH STEREOGUM HERE

NEW ALBUM BLOOD/LINES OUT NOVEMBER 19 ON IMPORTANT RECORDS
 

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LISTEN TO “KEELEY” ON SOUNDCLOUD HERE
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Today Emily Jane White pleases us with her second single “Keeley” from upcoming album, Blood / Lines, set for release November 19^th on Important Records.  “Keeley” premiered on Stereogum who’ve hailed it as the “…burning core of a Bat For Lashes or Chelsea Wolfe song stripped of all its rhythmic bombast, left to passionately crackle with minimal percussion and maximum melodrama.”  Emily Jane White’s songwriting is at once generous and tough-minded, reflective and unsentimental - possessing the confidence of a singular voice, inspired by the raveled threads of the uncanny in American culture, including depression-era blues and post-Victorian gothic literature.

Blood / Lines is a collection of gorgeously dark song vignettes built on a foundation of reverbed emotion, rhythmic drive, and minor-key pop sensibility.  After releasing three albums in three years, Oakland’s Emily Jane White wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012.  Blood / Lines is a selected compilation of these songs. Recorded in a secluded studio in Sonoma County, California, the quiet environment provided Emily a place to explore new directions and to grasp creative control.   With the help of her friends and collaborators Wainwright Hewlett, Shawn Alpay, Marissa Nadler, Nick Ott, and Darwin Meiners, her songs diversify with strings, backing vocals, bass, and heavy drums.

Emily doesn’t wallow in morbidity; instead she considers her work to be unifying, an empathetic reflection on the universality of adversity. Blood/Lines displays loyalty to dark and somber atmospheres through bright sounds, heavy drive, and bold arrangements. Love, anger, and violence move through each vignette. Kinship generates complex intimacies. Love can entrap the unwary and betray the devoted.

 

Emily Jane White 
Blood / Lines
Important Records
November 19, 2013

1 – My Beloved
2 – Faster Than The Devil
3 – Keeley
4 – Thoroughbred
5 – Wake
6 – Dandelion Daze
7 – Holiday Song
8 – The Roses
9 – The Wolves
10 –Silence/Slain (Bonus Track)
11 – Here It Lies (Bonus Track)

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