8. Rolling Stone, December 2011
(USA)
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-singles-
8
9. This Is Fake DIY, December 2011
(UK)
http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/features/diys-albums-of-2011-40-31
9
10. The Fly, December 2011
(UK)
http://www.the-fly.co.uk/feature/lists/1011073/the-top-50-albums-of-2011-40-31/
10
11. Sounding off | The Sunday Times 13.11.11 09:55
Sunday Times, December 2011
(UK)
Sounding off
Sounding off | The Sunday Times 13.11.11 09:55
Erika M Anderson is a 23-year-old South Dakotan whose songs — and
Anderson also tries to establish lyrical links between herself and chart pop. “They use lines like “I’ll
especially lyrics — demand attention die for you’ all the time,” she says. “That’s kind of the same, isn’t it?” Not really. It’s not quite the
same as “I don’t mind dying”, or “These drugs are making me so sad/I can’t stop taking them”, or
“When you showed up in that spot/I almost threw up on the spot”.
Mark Edwards Published: 13 November 2011
These lyrics are, surely, honest representations of some fairly miserable states of mind. She nods:
they are honest, but the very act of writing the songs helps. “I write songs to access the unconscious
I magine, if you will, an alt-rock supergroup that comprises Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Frank Black problem-solving part of my brain,” she says. “And afterwards, I feel much better. Oh, I didn’t know I
and Lou Reed. Awesome, huh? Sadly, it’s not likely to happen (although with Stipe a free agent these felt that way, I didn’t know that was bothering me — but it often really does go away if I write about
it.
days, and Reed wise to the benefits of unlikely collaborations, following Lulu, his team-up with
Metallica, who knows?), but if that combination of styles and talents appeals, you could do worse “Also, there is a level of self-awareness when you sing lines like that. The first time it comes storming
than explore Past Life Martyred Saints, the debut album from Erika M Anderson, who trades under out of your unconscious, but, as you listen back to it in the studio, you find more of a cartoon
element in it — ‘Oh, this is extreme.’ And sometimes it feels almost like a sense of duty, to say things
her initials, EMA. that aren’t being said, to make things that aren’t being made.”
Here you will discover the intensity of Smith, the vocal dexterity of Stipe, the off-kilter riffs of Black The other time in our conversation when Anderson refers to her sense of duty is when she recalls
and Reed’s mastery of guitar tones on the edge of chaos, all combined in a 23-year-old singer who being a teenager in South Dakota, and thinking: “Isn’t any other girl going to form a punk band?
Okay then, it’s up to me.”
pretty much emerged from nowhere when the album was released earlier this year. (She was
previously in a band called Gowns, but unless you’re a Los Angeles-based lover of drone-folk, you We should all be grateful for Anderson’s sense of duty. Without it, a quite remarkable album would
probably never caught them.) never have been made — because nobody else was going to make it. !
EMA starts her British tour on November 23 at Heaven, WC2
This is one of those rare — too rare — albums where every moment matters, every lyric fascinates,
every sound thrills. Even more remarkably, this extraordinary record draws its inspiration from the
life of Anderson’s great-grandmother and from the differences between these two generations. It’s
not your typical rock subject matter, but she takes this unlikely starting point and finds in it
universal themes as she explores the conflicts we all face in making our own way in the world,
separate from previous generations yet still inextricably linked to them.
Anderson encapsulates both the distance and the closeness of her life and her great-grandmother’s in
the four lines that close the album’s opening track, The Grey Ship, a seven-minute epic that has
already referenced Anderson’s even more distant ancestors, with its mention of Viking ghost ships.
“Great-grandmother lived on the prairie/Nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing/I’ve got the
same feeling inside of me/Nothing and nothing and nothing and nothing.”
It’s hard to imagine any rock lyricist who wouldn’t be proud of that verse, and the subtlety of the
connection counterpoints the more immediately shocking lyrics that made Anderson one of the most
blogged-about artists around when the album emerged. You can hear a typically unsettling example
on her new single, Marked (out on November 21 on Souterrain Transmissions), which contains the
repeated line: “I wish that every time he touched me left a mark.” Elsewhere on the album, we hear
Sounding off | The to “20 kisses with a butterfly knife” and the suggestion that “I don’t mind dying”.
references Sunday Times 13.11.11 09:55
So when, on California, she opens by exclaiming “F*** California, you made me boring!”, it’s not
entirely convincing. There’s nothing remotely boring about Past Life Martyred Saints.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/music/pop_and_rock/article817655.ece Page 1 of 3
Anderson explains to me how her great-grandparents ended up in South Dakota. “They came from
Scandinavia as homesteaders,” she says. “The deal was the government basically saying, ‘We’ll give
you free land if you’ll go and live in this shitty spot.’ They lived in sod huts in the middle of extreme http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/music/pop_and_rock/article817655.ece Page 3 of 3
weather. And, gradually, they built a home and a life.”
Anderson was born in Minnesota, but the family soon returned to South Dakota. “It’s one of those
places that’s a good place to raise kids... technically,” she says. “But not really.”
South Dakota is 50% bigger than England, but has a population well below 1m.
“It’s all farms, ranches, empty,” Anderson says. “I think people there are confused. You’re a speck in
the middle of nowhere — what’s going on? You don’t feel there’s any purpose. It all seems so
arbitrary and a little bit futile. When I said I was going to move to LA, they’d look at me like I’d said
I was going to Mars. Mind you, if I’d said New York, then they would have known I was insane —
you’re going to end up dead in a gutter. With California... well, at least there’s a beach there.”
You imagine that Anderson couldn’t wait to leave. In fact, she had conflicting emotions about her
move to Los Angeles at the age of 18. “A lot of the album explores this conflict,” she says. “They
moved here, they built houses and homes out of nothing, and now here I am moving somewhere else.
Should I do that? Is that a good thing? Am I building on their achievements, on everything they’ve
done? Or am I abandoning and rejecting them? Am I betraying everything these people have worked
for through several generations to go to LA... and be an artist?”
Anderson can barely utter the words at the end of that sentence. She says the idea of someone from
South Dakota aspiring to be an artist is “a sin, almost”, and she was as hesitant about her artistic
aims as about her move. “It took me a long time to say — even to myself, let alone out loud — that I
really wanted to do this.”
While she worked up the courage to commit to songwriting, Anderson carried on a parallel life,
earning a living as a substitute teacher. “I think that’s most people’s idea of hell,” she says. “You’re
working with an audience that’s quite likely to be openly hostile, but I really enjoyed it. You’re given
an idea of what you’re supposed to teach in each lesson — try to do this, try to cover that — but it’s
mostly improvised. I thought it was fun.”
It sounds not unlike her writing process, which favours stream-of-consciousness creation over a
broadly brush-stroked musical backing. “I don’t know why,” she says. “I mean, I like choruses.”
Anderson refers to the way she writes music down as a “hobo score” because it resembles the
hieroglyphics American vagrants would carve into fenceposts to indicate whether a householder
would meet a request for food with generosity or a shotgun. “One musician looked at something I’d
drawn and said, ‘Hmm, this looks like when Charlie Brown has stink lines.’ I said, ‘Okay, then, play
stink lines.’ The thing is, I see sounds as shapes, and it’s hard to describe that to other people — ‘Oh,
I want a synth that sounds like one of those rocks with lots of holes in it that people use to scrub
their feet.’ So, anyway, that’s probably why the record is mostly me.”
Anderson is obsessive over sound, an attention to detail highlighted by the moment in The Grey Ship
when the lo-fi opening transforms into a glossy studio production. It’s been compared to the moment
in The Wizard of Oz when the black-and-white film turns into colour. “I love sound,” she says, before
reaching for an unexpected comparison. “You know, I’ve been listening to the most recent Britney
Spears album on headphones. I love it, because every single moment is thought out, every single
sound is very specific. I get thrilled listening to that. Friends say, ‘This is nothing at all like what you
do.’ Oh, but it is, though.”
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20. Rough Trade, November 2011
(UK)
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=343120
20
21. Pitchfork, November 2011
(USA)
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44629-listen-ema-and-male-
bonding-cover-nirvana-songs-on-new-split-single/
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22. Les InRocks, November 2011
(France)
Interview:
http://blogs.lesinrocks.com/festival-les-inrocks/2011/11/08/90-
secondes-avec-anna-calvi-ema-dum-dum-girls-et-le-prince-miiaou/
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24. Stuz, November 2011
(Germany)
„Manche Songs sind
wie Zaubersprüche“
Eine zerbrechliche Stimme, dröhnende Gitarren und
jede Menge Ehrlichkeit: Erika M. Anderson macht un-
ter dem Namen EMA Musik, die unter die Haut geht.
Vor ihrem Auftritt im Hafen 2 in Offenbach sprach die
STUZ mit der blonden Hünin über musikhörende El-
tern, ehrliche Deutsche und Frauen, die Gitarre spielen.
STUZ: Du bist im Alter von 18 Jahren von South Da- dazu sagen würde! Doch sie meinten, dass sie das Album Es wäre cool, mehr Zeit in Deutschland zu verbringen. Ich
kota nach Los Angeles gezogen. Hattest du zu dieser mögen. Über mehr haben wir nicht wirklich geredet. Ich glaube, es wäre gut für meine Persönlichkeit, von dieser
Zeit bereits den Plan, Musikerin zu werden? bin nicht gerade scharf darauf, mit meinen Eltern oder Ehrlichkeit umgeben zu sein.
Erika M. Anderson: Nein, ich dachte nicht, dass ich das Großeltern über den Inhalt der Texte zu sprechen.
könnte. Ich habe in der Nähe von L.A. Media Studies stu- Anfang der 90er Jahre gab es diese Riot Grrrl-Szene
diert und wollte damals Dokumentationen drehen oder Hast du schon Pläne für ein zweites Album? mit vielen feministischen Bands – ich bin mir aber
Erziehungssendungen für Kinder produzieren. Ich habe ein paar Ideen, aber bisher hatte ich noch keine nicht sicher, ob das langfristig so viel in der Rockmusik
Zeit, mich genauer damit zu beschäftigen. Wenn ich verändert hat. Meinst du, es gibt heutzutage mehr
Das klingt lustig, denn deine Musik ist nicht gerade bisher etwas gemacht habe, dann war das immer für Mädchen, die Gitarre in einer Band spielen, als damals?
für Kinder geeignet. mich und der Druck kam aus mir selbst. Ich weiß nicht, Ich denke schon, dass es heute mehr sind. Aber es wäre
Ich weiß. (lacht) Ich glaube, ich kann inzwischen wohl inwiefern sich das ändern wird, jetzt wo ich weiß, dass spannend, mal nachzuzählen, ob das wirklich so ist. Es
auch nie wieder als Lehrerin arbeiten. Keine Eltern der sich auch andere Leute darüber Gedanken machen, was scheint mir jedenfalls so, als gäbe es heutzutage viele
Welt würden mich mehr in die Nähe ihrer Kinder lassen ich als nächstes tue. Ich bin nicht gerade jemand, der Musikerinnen, die ihr Ding machen. Allein im letzten Jahr
wollen! einen Fün ahresplan hat. Ich weiß noch nicht mal genau, waren da so tolle Künstlerinnen wie Zola Jesus, tUnE-
wo es als nächstes hingeht. Ich bin nicht besonders gut yArDs oder Austra. Ich denke, dass die Leute interessiert
Die Songs auf deinem Album „Past Life Martyred im Planen (lacht). sind an einer weiblichen Perspektive und dass es mo-
Saints“ sind sehr intim und verletzlich. Hatte die Ent- mentan eine gute Zeit ist, um als Frau Musik zu machen.
stehung der Platte einen kathartischen E ekt auf dich? Du bist vor Kurzem nach Portland gezogen. Glaubst
Ja, auf jeden Fall. Lieder über bestimmte Erfahrungen zu du, dass der Ort, an dem man lebt, einen Ein uss auf
schreiben, hilft einem dabei, sich besser zu fühlen und die Persönlichkeit hat? Erika M. Anderson alias EMA hat im Juni 2011 ihr So-
Sachen zu verstehen. Wenn man bewusst über etwas Ja, und besonders auch auf die Kunst, die man macht. lodebüt „Past Life Martyred Saints“ herausgebracht,
nachdenkt, ist es manchmal schwieriger zu begreifen, Ich denke, dass ein Teil meiner Faszination für lauten, welches aufgrund der intensiven Mischung von
wie man sich wirklich fühlt, als wenn man es in Songs dröhnenden Sound daher kommt, dass ich in South Noise, Folk und Pop sowie der abgründigen Texte
verarbeitet. Manche Songs sind beinahe wie Zaubersprü- Dakota aufgewachsen bin. Der Himmel dort ist riesig und über obsessive Beziehungen und Selbstverletzung
che, die man aussprechen muss, um etwas freizulassen. das Wetter spielt häu g verrückt. Ich wollte etwas davon besonders in den Musikblogs hohe Wellen geschla-
in den Klang meiner Musik packen. Ich weiß allerdings gen hat. Im Interview zeigte sich die Endzwanzige-
Aber hattest du nicht auch ein wenig Angst vor den Re- nicht, ob ein Portland-Ein uss das Richtige für meine rin dagegen unglaublich o en und freundlich – und
aktionen, die du auf das Album bekommen würdest? Musik ist (lacht). wirkte in ihrer schlabberigen Trainingshose, der viel
Ich hatte keine Ahnung, was ich erwarten sollte. Wenn zu weiten Jacke und der riesigen Brille überhaupt
man ein Album herausbringt, weiß man ja nicht, wie viele Wie hat es dir auf deiner Tour in Deutschland gefallen? nicht wie die düstere und verletzliche Person, die
Leute es hören werden. Ich habe das Album vor allem für Es war großartig! Die meisten Aufritte hier in Deutschland man beim Hören des Albums vor Augen hat.
mich selbst gemacht und mir keine Gedanken darüber liefen ziemlich gut. Einmal wurden wir allerdings von der
gemacht, was Leute dazu sagen könnten. Ich meine, ich bayrischen Polizei angehalten. Wir hatten am Tag zuvor
wusste schon, dass darauf einige Dinge sind, die man als in Amsterdam gespielt und dann hieß es: „Oh, ihr kommt Interview & Foto: Jonas Trautner
kontrovers bezeichnen könnte. Dinge, die die meisten aus Amsterdam?! Ihr seid eine Rockband?! Raus aus dem
Leute niemals laut sagen würden. Aber am meisten Auto!“ (lacht) Aber die Polizisten waren ziemlich nett. Mir Eine längere Version des Interviews sowie
Angst hatte ich ehrlich gesagt davor, was meine Familie gefällt Deutschland, ich mag die Direktheit der Leute hier. mehr zu EMA ndet ihr auf www.stuz.de!
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96. Quotes
“Quite simply the most exciting thing Iʼve heard in a very, very long time.” – Glasswerk
“An enchanting listen… EMA could well become a new icon for lo-fi electronic music.” – Qthemusic
“A truly splendid debut album. 8/10” – Gaydar Nation via The Press Association
“Apologies for the swearing so early on, normally we wait till paragraph two to get worked up. But then,
Anderson, who now goes by the name EMA, will do that to you. (Note to her record company: you can use
that – "EMA: she's curse-inducingly good." Guardian New Band of the Day
“Phenomenal debut album” 5/5 Sunday Times ʻCD of the Weekʼ
“Blending roughness with beauty could be said to be EMAʼs thing” ʻDebut Album of the Monthʼ 4/5 Uncut
“Deliriously woozy thrill-ride” 4/5 Mojo
“Sheʼs already sailed miles past the ʻbright hopeʼ stage and is well on her way to lo-fi legend” Time Out
“Dark, devilish and utterly intriguing, this is an album to lose yourself in” 4/5 The Fly
“Masterful handling of each of the nine tracks makes this a truly one-off debut” 4/5 The Sun
“EMAʼs raw power serves heartening evidence of a tough, fearless talent” The Independent
“9/10” Loud & Quiet
“4/5” Stool Pigeon
“4/5” Financial Times
“Sheʼs a wonder to behold” Pitchfork SXSW 2011
“Most exciting of all [new artists] has been the arrival of new single 'Grey Ship' b/w 'Kind Heart' by solo artist
Erika M. Anderson aka EMA… Slay it does” The Quietus
“A whole heap of Americana awesome” NME
“Youʼll have no idea where you are when the ʻGrey Shipʼ halts but youʼll know it has been wonderful” Metro
“Past Life Martyred Saints is a remarkably accomplished record” 4/5 The Skinny
“Utterly compelling” ʻSingle of the Monthʼ 5/5 Artrocker
“A wistful layered female vocal juxtaposed with guitars that manage to alternate tonally” FredPerry.com/Fred
Perry Subculture
“The best new guitar slinger in town” Hecklerspray
“A rare 'DiScover' recommendation...You're sucked into an ornate vortex of a true artist, who is not just
making songs but building a planet for us to inhabit.” Drowned in Sound
“Irresistible and constant… It is brilliant and EMA deserves to be heard. 4/5” Music News
“This would already be sitting on top of the tottering pile of data that is our albums of the year long list…if we
made such things.” 20jazzfunkgreats
“Some intelligent confessional songwriting, some sublime sky-sawing guitars at around 3:30, and that voice,
warm and longing, with just the right amount of attitude.” Fred Perry Subculture
“Deliriously woozy thrill-ride” 4/5 Mojo
“Although it was actually released last week, itʼs taken us this long to get all the way through this slow burning
psychedelic alt.blues masterpiece [Kind Heart] – one of the stars of this yearʼs SXSW” Time Out
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97. Links
Contact Music:
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/interview/ema-erika-m-anderson
Because London:
http://becauselondon.com/radio/2011/05/18/california.aspx
This Is Ape:
http://www.thisisape.com/magazine/?p=179
Not Pop:
http://notpop.co.uk/ema-past-life-martyed-saints/2011/05/25/
Q The Music:
http://news.qthemusic.com/2011/05/ema_-_milkman.html
Fault Magazine:
http://www.faultmagazine.com/2011/05/ema/
One Thirty BPM:
http://onethirtybpm.com/media/mp3-ema-milkman/
Glasswerk:
http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/reviews/national/9753/EMA
Loud & Quiet:
http://www.loudandquiet.com/2011/05/ema-past-life-martyred-saints/
The Girls Are:
http://thegirlsare.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/review-ema/
GaydarNation:
http://gaydarnation.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=29524&sid=1&gnbox_cn=0&gnbox_ca=4
New Noise
http://www.noisemag.net/?p=7708
Magic RPM - Album Review & Marked Video
http://www.magicrpm.com/artistes/ema/a-lire/chroniques/past-life-martyred-saints
http://www.magicrpm.com/infos/ema/marked-le-clip
http://friendfeed.com/magicrpm?start=270
Telerama - Playlisting
http://www.telerama.fr/musique/tour-de-pistes-21-cloud-control-other-lives-johnny-leyton-julien-baer,
70190.php
Click ʼnʼ Clock Radio - California and Milkman Playlisting
http://www.clicknrock.fr/le-labo-9/playlist-du-labo-du-15-mai-2011-1952.html
http://www.clicknrock.fr/le-labo-9/playlist-du-labo-du-12-juin-2011-2209.html
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98. Links
LʻOlympia - Les InRocks Festival
http://www.olympiahall.com/rock-electro/festival-les-inrocks-black-xs-2011.html
Blogothèque - ʻAfter P.J. Harveyʻ Feature
http://www.blogotheque.net/Une-vie-apres-PJ
The Drone - Article, Homepage & Pre-Release Album Stream
http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/ema-past-life-martyred-saints/
Brain Magazine - Interview & Video Posting
http://brain-magazine.com/interviews/17-interviews/6203-ema-fuck-you-california
Fluctuat - Feature & Video Posting
http://musique.fluctuat.net/blog/49202-ema-la-petite-soeur-de-kim-gordon-de-sonic-youth.html
La Depeche - Marked Video
http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2011/09/21/1172527-ema-marked-le-clip.html
Artistik Rezo - Album Review
http://www.artistikrezo.com/201106206979/musique/pop/rock/eman-past-life-martyred-saints.html
Wizzmusic - Biography & 3 Songs
http://www.wizzmusic.com/ema
Poptronics - Review & California Video
http://www.poptronics.fr/Sortez-Scout-Niblett-EMA-Jeff
Hexagone Ecstacy - Milkman Review & Video
http://hexagonecstacy.com/tag/past-life-martyred-saints
Cʻest Entendu - Album Review
http://cestentendu.blogspot.com/2011/06/vise-un-peu-ema-past-life-martyred.html
Muzzart - Album Review
http://www.muzzart.fr/lezine/chronik/ema-past-life-martyred-saints.html
Music Story - Feature
http://www.music-story.com/ema/past-life-martyred-saints
Hop - News
http://hop.over-blog.com/article-les-nouveautes-musqiue-de-la-semaine-du-18-avril-2011-72082056.html
Discordance - Souterrain Transmissions Feature
http://www.discordance.fr/souterrain-transmissions-un-ours-a-berlin-20115
Indie Rock Mag - Milkman, California & Marked Videos
http://www.indierockmag.com/article14227.html
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99. Links
Paper Blog - Review & California Video
http://www.paperblog.fr/4385338/ema-past-life-martyred-saints
Rock It to the Moon - Review & California Audio
http://www.rockittothemoon.com/-EMA-.html
Moustique - Album Review & Video Postings
http://www.moustique.be/culture/musique/18021/ema-past-life-martyred-saints
En Trois Lignes - Abum Pick
http://3lignes.blogspot.com/2011/05/ema-past-life-martyred-saints-2011.html
Toujours un Coup dʻAvance - Album Review
http://www.toujoursuncoupdavance.com/EMA-Past-Life-Martyred-Saints.html
Funk You Dear - Album Review
http://funkyoudear.com/2011/06/13/ema-past-life-martyred-saints/
Le Grand Mix - Concert Plug & Video Posting
http://www.legrandmix.com/pages/concert.php?date=2011-11-09&rang=
Lords of Rock - Feature & California Video
http://www.lordsofrock.net/ema-past-life-martyred-saints/
Le Guide Musical - Collection of Album Ratings and California Video
http://www.leguidemusical.com/61-pop-rock/4779-ema-past-life-martyred-saints.html
Bon Pour Les Oreilles - California Video
http://www.bonpourlesoreilles.net/musique/2011/09/ema-california_clip.html
Tea Zine - Article (7.10.11)
http://tea-zine.com/
Soul Kitchen - Album Review & California Video
http://www.soul-kitchen.fr/23530-clip-ema-california
Qobuz - Review and Playlist
http://www.qobuz.com/album/past-life-martyred-saints-ema/5414939126079
Qobuz - Album Review
http://www.qobuz.com/info/MAGAZINE-ACTUALITES/VIDEO-DU-JOUR/Le-phenomene-EMA-
epileptiques-s56985
Indie Pop Rock - Album Review & Live Report in Brussels
http://www.qobuz.com/info/MAGAZINE-ACTUALITES/VIDEO-DU-JOUR/Le-phenomene-EMA-
epileptiques-s56985
http://www.indiepoprock.net/live.php?id=551
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100. Links
Collapseboard.com - 12 favourite songs of 2011 so far
http://www.collapseboard.com/everett-true/everett-trues-12-favourite-songs-of-2011-so-far/2/
Flotzam - Live Review
http://flotzam.com/post/Wild-Beasts-EMA-The-Neptune.aspx
Agnes B - DJ Set & Playlisting
http://europe.agnesb.com/fr/bside/section/l-univers-agnes-b/on-aime-la-musique/dj-set-d-ema
Vogue - Acoustic Session & Interview
http://www.vogue.fr/vogue-tv/reportages/videos/ema-chante-pour-vogue/761
http://www.vogue.fr/culture/agenda/articles/nouvel-album-d-ema-past-life-martyred-saints/7757
Liberation Next - Article and Playlist
http://next.liberation.fr/culture/01012342009-aimez-ema
http://next.liberation.fr/musique/06013805-la-playlist-ema-imany-alborosie
Teleobs.Nouvelobs - Web Selection
http://teleobs.nouvelobs.com/articles/blogs-musique-un-nouveau-titre-en-prelude-a-la-sortie-de-l-album-d-
ema
Les InRocks Web - Top Playlist of the Year
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/67347/date/2011-07-07/article/les-meilleurs-albums-
de-2011-pour-linstant/
Les InRocks Web - News Selection of the Team
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/66193/date/2011-06-09/article/et-toi-tecoutes-quoi-8/
Les InRocks Web - Video of the Week & New Band to Check Out
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/63225/date/2011-04-15/article/cinq-groupes-a-
suivre-41/
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/64516/date/2011-05-03/article/nouvelle-tete-et-
telechargement-ema
Les InRocks Web - Full Interview
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/65755/date/2011-05-27/article/ema-interview-dun-
phenomene/
Les InRocks Web - Marked Video
http://blogs.lesinrocks.com/festival-les-inrocks/2011/09/20/ema-la-video-de-marked/
Les InRocks Web - Artist Presentation
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/artiste/ema/
Les Inrocks Web - Festival des InRocks
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/66718/date/2011-06-20/article/ema-pile-electrique/
Les InRocks Blog - Photoshoot by Renaud Monfourny
http://blogs.lesinrocks.com/photos/2011/06/06/ema/
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101. Links
Stars Are Underground - Album Review
http://starsareunderground.free.fr/html/chroniques/pastlifemartyredsaints.html
Yin Magazine - Album Review and Milkman Video
http://starsareunderground.free.fr/html/chroniques/pastlifemartyredsaints.html
Spirit of Rock - Gig Listing
http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/album-groupe-Ema-nom_album-Past_Life_Martyred_Saints-l-fr.html
Musiczine - Album Review
http://www.musiczine.net/fr/chroniques/ema/past-life-martyred-saints/
AujourdʻHui - Les InRocks Festival
http://etudiant.aujourdhui.fr/etudiant/sortir/tag/festival_les_inrocks.html
Azzedine Fall Blog - Album Review
http://azzedinefall.tumblr.com/
Star Wax Mag - News
http://www.starwaxmag.com/
Cultival - Les InRocks Festival
http://www.cultival.fr/fr/spectacles/festival-les-inrocksblack-xs
RTL Radio - Milkman Review
http://www.rtl.be/loisirs/musique/news/5041/blogs-musique-un-nouveau-titre-en-pr-lude-la-sortie-de-l-
album-d-ema
College Times - Interview
http://www.ecollegetimes.com/music/ema-talks-musical-instinct-martyrdom-1.2652727#.Tp1RJnEbXyE
Consequence of Sound - Live Review
http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/10/live-review-wild-beasts-ema-at-los-angeles-echoplex-1013/
One Thirty BPM - Live Review
http://onethirtybpm.com/live/live-review-and-photos-wild-beasts-and-ema-october-13-2011-echoplex-los-
angeles-ca/
Papermag - Interview Feature
http://www.papermag.com/2011/10/ema_on_her_new_album_being_a_b.php
Brooklyn Vegan - Live Photos
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/10/zola_jesus_give.html
They Live - Live Review and Photos
http://www.theylive.org/2011/10/ema-back-in-los-angeles-live-at.html
The L Magazine - Live Review
http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/10/21/cmj-thursday-ema-and-other-much-less-
important-stuff
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102. Links
Chart Attack - MP3 Roundup Selection (Angelo)
http://www.chartattack.com/news/2011/nov/03/mp3-roundup
Sexbeat - Marked/Angelo Audio Posting
http://sexbeatlondon.com/2011/11/02/ema-marked/
Noisevox - Marked Video
http://www.noisevox.org/node/27131
Splice Today - Butterfly Knife Acoustic Video
http://www.splicetoday.com/music/ema-on-la-blogotheque
Just Music That I Like - Endless Nameless Posting
http://www.justmusicthatilike.com/2011/11/ema-6-endless-nameless.html
Time Out Sydney - Featured Listing
http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/music/events/28340/ema-yuck
Cult of the New - Past Life Martyred Saints Review
http://cultofthenew.com/2011/11/17/ema-past-life-martyred-saints/
Cool Music Central - Live Review & Live Videos
http://coolmusiccentral.blogspot.com/2011/11/ema-monovine-live-bios-athens-november.html
Those Who Dig - Angelo Audio Posting
http://www.thosewhodig.net/?article=640
Pluto Mag - Live Videos from BIOS
http://plutomag.blogspot.com/2011/11/ema-milkman-live-bios-arte-fiasco-gig.html
Vinyl Anthology - Marked Video
http://vinylanthology.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/ode-to-the-music-video-featuring-ema/
CMU - CMU Artists of the Year
http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/cmu-artists-of-the-year-2011-ema/
Consequence of Sound - Top 50 Songs of 2011 (#7)
http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/12/songs-of-the-year-2011/
Metro News - Best 2011 Artists
http://www.metronews.ca/london/scene/article/1046003--2011-s-musicians-who-deserve-another-look
Spend Matters - Christmas Gift Suggestion
www.spendmatters.co.uk/musical-christmas-gift-suggestions-rock-turkey/
Prefix Mag - Top 50 Albums of 2011 (#12)
http://www.prefixmag.com/features/colin-stetson-das-racist-ema-fleet-foxes-james-blake-m83-panda-bear-
st-vincent-the-war-on-drugs-the-weeknd/prefixs-top-50-albums-2011-20-11/59578/
The Quietus - Interview w/ EMA & Zola Jesus
http://thequietus.com/articles/07511-ema-zola-jesus-interview
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