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Close Harbour

Emmy The Great

Virtue

Virtue was made in London and Sussex. This time round, Euan Hinshelwood, her long-term musical collaborator, and Emmy took the reins, rather than develop the songs with their full band in the studio. Euan came up with the guitar palette, strange, ambient, twisted and atmospheric, while Emmy wrote backing vocals for different characters she voiced herself. The ghosts of the Cocteau Twins and Suzanne Vega feature, as well as the stories of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter, and the writing of cultural theorists like Marina Warner. Emmy wanted a cast for this album, to lift up the world she was trying to conjure, and kept albums in mind that have similar ambitions – Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea; Janelle Monae's The Archandroid. While making it, she listened to girly pop like The Bangles, tempered with religious choirs, folk from the South Pacific, while Euan became obsessed with post-punk and Bulgarian choirs. They even spent a night Googling Enya.

Tracklist

• 1. Dinosaur Sex
  2. A Woman, A Woman, A Century Of Sleep
  3. Iris
  4. Paper Forest (In The Afterglow Of Rapture)
  5. Cassandra
  6. Creation
  7. Sylvia
  8. Exit Night / Juliet's Theme
  9. North
  10. Trellick Tower