Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death

Some Heavy Ocean remains among my favorite release from '14, and the new one is scratching the same itches, from Kristen Hersh to Hope Sandoval. I've tried to get into her main gig, Marriages, but they have yet to grip me in the same way. Arid California twang is a better setting than shoegazish indie, I guess.

this is good!

Extended interview with Music&Riots

Really love this album. Sorry to drop some dirty words, but one track reminded me of Tori Amos.

I'll go one further and say her voice reminds me of Heather Nova and even Dolores O'Riordan at points.

Forever, As The Setting Son (Planned Parenthood benefit single)

Its roughhewn, more reliant on the cracks in Emma's voice than the composition. But I didn't donate to PP this year, so...

Some Heavy Ocean remains among my favorite release from '14, and the new one is scratching the same itches, from Kristen Hersh to Hope Sandoval.

this is great also i was just gonna quip that this is the metal mazzy star

so into this. i'm hearing echoes of tiny vipers, paramore, landa del rey, chelsea wolfe, etc. gonna have to check out her band marriages next cuz the last two albums ive gotten super into have been from members of the band: ERR and the drummer's solo record as drab majesty

damn how did I miss this, this is awesome

Marriages are really good but a considerably different thing to her solo work.

I like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9LgIOx6WJ8

My new mission for 2017-2018 is to evangelize everyone in Marriages so that they become omnipresent superstars.

I like her instrumental guitar improvisations -- I think the story is that she recorded them in a van on tour? I like them. I also like that her album cover photo is so gnarly looking when she is obviously extremely beautiful.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/emma-ruth-rundle-and-jaye-jayle-announce-new-joint-ep-sargent-house-premiere-full-album-stream

this one performance from a couple of years back almost killed me when i first saw it. still rips at my heart tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_WpBfsuFY

Her voice in that last song reminds me a lot of Dolores O'Riordan.

The Distance is such a gorgeous song. I'm a sucker for stuff like this that its into that Marissa Nadler/ Chelsea Wolfe space

Self titled track on marked for death is some divine shit

She played here in a fairly small room a couple of months back. Pretty good but all electric and you couldn’t really hear her voice so well, but after the show was over and most people had left some uber fan convinced her to play one more. She climbed back on the stage, strapped on her acoustic guitar and played ‘Big Sky’. We were in an upstairs room but it was so heavy I thought we were going to end up in the basement, such a gut-punch of a song.

https://instagram.com/p/Bc0ikIkH6uG/

New album in September, new track here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJFjWWrABQ

she's gonna be on the new thrice record as well. that song is GREAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBoNWIsa3w

spellbinding

lotta tori talk on ilx today but this song is partially inspired by "marianne" https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/emma-ruth-rundle-darkhorse-origins/

(also by one of my favorite skm songs, "heron blue")

this album rules

Agreed!

Yup. Can't wait to see her in December.

This ODH outtake rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLb1CtsVjf0

Collaborative LP with Thou also on the horizon this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLoVW_J0lM

fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4TxXT-UkaU

really enjoying what she seems to be going for with this new one

really good album, this stripped-down singer-songwriter mode works really well for her