The Future's Void (studio album) by EMA

From cestuneblague 12/24/2018 16:42

The meat of the sandwich is very good and at times transcendant, as the middle songs really shine for all their different reasons, but an especially overwrought-but-disparate opening and a somewhat whimper of a closer fails to make this the indie-rock supernova it's clearly aiming to be. Still good-to-occasionally great but not quite the disquieting, very personal masterpiece that was her debut.

The first two songs are good, the rest is terrible.

A Beauty, but an icy beauty that feels like Im never truly going to know fully. Cold and meditative, in contrast to Past Life Martyred Saints which was so intensely, violently personal, it has it's own certain appeal but in the end it feels like it's a launching pad for an even bigger (shockingly that still seems possible even after this monolith of a record) idea in the future. Not as layed-bare or instantly engaging as it's predeccessor, though it's theme of humankind's emotional decay in the digital age feels like a more outward-looking continuation of the homespun, close-to-the-heart themes of Past-Life Martyred Saints. While it doesn't quite hit it out of the park (at least on first listen), it already begs for a repeat play, and the album's mid-section (on purely musical terms) is stunning. I think this one is just going to need more time and re-plays to really sink in.

From Hayden 03/26/2014 02:45

This album is awesomely amazing.

I can't get over how good Smolder is, it's just this totally engulfin, huge song. 3Jane is also really powerful. Her vocal trills put through distortion are some of the most chilling sounds I think a human can make.

And although it doesn't sound like them, this album reminds me a lot of Nirvana, just because of the spirit behind it. It's kind of lackadaisical, but pissed off and rebellious.

In the vein of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Like most successful sophomore outputs, much bigger, cleaner, and ambitious than its predecessor. EMA looks to have become even more comfortable in her sound, the atmosphere she is looking to create. Variety of intriguing distortion.