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CD: Emmy the Great - Virtue
CD: Emmy the Great - Virtue
Singer-songwriter mines unexpected offbeat lyrical depths
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Emmy the Great's second album weaves a most effective spell
I'm tired of Emmy the Great being lumped in with crappy singer-songwriters who've had way too much hype but couldn't write a decent lyric if they were tied to a chair and had a pistol pointed at their temple. Emma-Lee Moss bloomed from a singer-songwritery London milieu but she's a cut above the pack.
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