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Emmy The Great Releases The Edward EP

• 13th Jul 2009

Alongside a forthcoming show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 19th July and a string of festival dates, Emmy The Great will release the new Edward EP on 10th August on her own Close Harbour label

The Edward EP sees Emmy and her band revisit some older songs, recently rekindled on the road and recorded for inclusion on a deluxe edition of her debut album instores from the end of July. Emmy, “When we were touring the album, people kept asking for these songs and they developed into encores… we did the EP with those fans in mind”

The four song EP features tracks written early in Emmy’s career, but only recently recorded, returning to earlier muses with engineer Adam Beach – responsible for her very first demo more than three years ago – and artist Edward Fornelies who lends his name to the release, as well as his image to the cover. The EP’s tracks Edward, Bowl Collecting Blood, Two Steps Forward and Canopies all include cultural and emotional references of a girl growing up; unique to the time of writing and notably different from the sessions for her recent album.

“Recording this EP brought back a lot of memories of when songwriting was done on a whim, and before anything got even remotely serious, and it's brought a lot of joy back into my songwriting now,” recalls Emmy, “Siouxsie Sioux once said when she sings her old songs she recognises that they were naive, but she stands by them, and I feel the same way.”

Emmy The Great will appear at the following festivals this summer: Glastonbury Festival, Secret Garden, Indietracks Festival, Big Chill, Kendal Calling, Summer Sundae and Green Man Festival