Emmy The Great – Virtue

Releasedate: 21-10-2011; Label: EMI
By: Nina Mende

Emma-Lee Moss (born c. 1984), known by her stage name Emmy the Great, is a London-based singer-songwriter and multi talent. Besides singing and writing songs, she is also writing for music magazines and tried acting alongside her musical career. She began writing her debut album, First Love, in “dilapidated studios” owned by The Earlies in rural Lancashire and was released in February 2009. It spawned the singles We Almost Had A Baby and First Love. The album was received with generally positive reviews, while The New York Times compiled their list of “Best Albums of the Year 2009” and ranked First Love at #7 Now she released her second studio album called “Virtue”.

“Virtue” comes with ten tracks. “Virtue” is a great poppy album with the female vocalist Emmy. Somehow magical this fairy like music comes at you. Dreamy it carries you away to another world, a dream land. “Virtue” spreads positive vibes all across. The interesting music of Emmy The Great gets you going along, swaying along when listening to it. Pure and clean the music talks about dreams, and happenings. An album most girls will be able to relate to and dream along with. “Virtue” is a wonderful album like no other. So invite your girlfriends and have a girls night with Emmy The Great and “Virtue”. Ten tracks that you can dream, sing and dance along to. Enjoy the new and second release of Emmy The Great. “Virtue” is out now.

Tracklist: 01. Dinosaur Sex 02. A Woman, a Woman, a Century of Sleep 03. Iris 04. Paper Forest (In the Afterglow of Rapture) 05. Cassandra 06. Creation 07. Sylvia 08. Exit Night/ Juliet’s Theme 09. North 10. Trellick Tower