Peach

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Deerful is Emma Winston, and Peach is a bold and ambitious 11 track debut long player, released less than two years after writing her first song. There are elements of Grimes, The Julie Ruin, Black Box Recorder, Yazoo and Suzanne Ciani all topped off with Emmas remarkable voice (you may have heard her sing before on records by Darren Hayman, Enderbys Room and Owl & Mouse). Peach is an album of lush, sad, romantic electronic pop made on synthesisers small enough to use on the bus (the OP-1, PO-32 and the Critter & Guitari SEPTAVOX). Peach was written, played, recorded, produced and mixed by Emma Winston she did the sleeve art too! Peachs narratives are driven by the feminine, combining Emmas reminiscences and stories with those of the (extra) ordinary women who inspire her. Emma describes Peach as being an album about affirming the ordinary and vital, about the everyday things that provide comfort to you in difficult times, and about finding your own way to push back against the expectations that constrain you. Its about moments of contact between people, especially between women, and above all about celebrating the small moments that make up a life. After self-releasing an original Christmas song, City Bells as a digital download in December 2015, Emma put out a 7? single, Moon Maps/Hush Me, on Where Its At Is Where You Are, followed by a cassette EP, Staying Still, and a USB drive loaded with 8-bit remixes, Home. She has played numerous shows and festivals (including indietracks, Wales Goes POP! and the DIY Popfest), and is as comfortable in folk basement as a DIY space or Islingtons Union Chapel Like a computer dreaming of a sunrise, Princess Peach from Mario re-imagined as a kick-arse, feminist superhero, or a pixelated Joanna Newsom. This is electronic music, yes, but at its core is humanity. For The Rabbits, EPs Of The Year 2016

A classic painting on the inside of a crocus bouquet growing from an old computer. Very Small Album Reviews

A stunningly beautiful debut Eardrums Music

Peach is very much a record about ordinary women I know and ordinary experiences its a personal record, but its intrinsically very very informed by being aware of my own femininity. Subjects Of Our Love was written for several friends who I love very much who have spent a lot of time feeling like they were never enough (whatever that means). Cloudwatching is a companion piece to Subjects Of Our Love, except while Subjects is about confronting something Cloudwatching is about escaping from it entirely and imagining a world where expectation doesnt exist and youre free of it for a while. Take Care, Conceptual Art and The Wider Sky So Far From Land are about specific women I know, living ordinary lives which probably will never be recognised as historic or world-changing but which I felt were worth celebrating or at least affirming in their own right. The stuff in Conceptual Art really happened to me and this other person, although it is embellished. It was kiiiind of inspired by Chris Krauss book I Love Dick which has some interesting things to say about womens art being perceived as confessional and truthful.