a love letter to love songs
Hi lovebirds,
Greetings from an unseasonably warm mid-February Wednesday! Whether Valentine's Day found you deeply romanced or in the lonely hearts club or anywhere in between, I am sending my love 2 u.
Come Get Serenaded!
Two shows in March!! Mark your calendars!! I hope to see you at one or both!
Monday, March 3rd, 9:30pm - Pete's Candy Store
Recommended $5 donation
My first time playing Pete's!!! I'm so excited it's such a vibey venue
Thursday, March 30th, 7pm- Rockwood Music Hall Stage 1
No cover, 1 drink min
Back again at my fave place to play!!
Silly Little Love Songs
Yesterday was the 1st birthday of the Birthday Card album, which I was a part of with my song Summer Streak. In collaboration with Laur Wheeler, it was written about a love going nowhere (and also a love for public transportation).
I Was Here is just about to hit 40k streams on Spotify (!!!). A love song to memory and nostalgia and sentimental objects.
4 months ago as of this past Sunday, I dropped teenage dream / back of a car. A love song to daydreaming and coming of age road trip fantasies (and... also... to fanfiction..... but shhhhhh).
The current EP I'm working on (still very in process, hopefully to be released in early Fall 2023) is more conceptual than my last. But, like anything else I write, it's a bunch of love songs in one way or another. Hopefully a few newsletters from now, you'll be able to hear some of the rough demos!! A little newsletter secret demo club.
And Now for Some Little Joys
Caroline Polachek's brand new album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You..... wow wow wow. She's got a voice and approach to melody unlike any I've encountered before. An operatic vocal range dancing over really smart electropop, she oscillates equally between sounding otherworldly and ethereal and sounding primal and emotive. Before I discovered her in 2019 I think I unconsciously believed I had to separate my pop writing with my classical training, but her music shatters that false dichotomy for me. (Charli XCX's and George Daniel's remix of her track 'Welcome to My Island' also scratches such an itch in my brain and I listen to it on loop for 20 minutes at a time)
Those comic sans valentines day card memes. The reason for the season.
My roommate and I watched the livestream of The Brit Music Awards last weekend and I am so delighted by British slang, and especially the phrase, "big up". Big up to whoever coined that one. Big up to the makers of this black sugar milk tea I'm currently drinking. Big up to the half unbuttoned silk shirt Harry Styles' wore at the Brits ceremony. And big ups to you for subscribing to this newsletter.
I'm glad you're here.
From my heart to yours,
Em