Past Life Martyred Saints
Erika M. Anderson emerges from the ashes of her former project Gowns with an unsettlingly beautiful collection of songs about pain and loss.
Erika M. Anderson goes to a dark place on her debut as EMA. The former Gowns And Amps For Christ member spins her previous projects’ art-damaged electric folk into a spare vehicle for the blues. It’s no coincidence that her first single, “The Grey Ship”—a Viking-inspired dirge about being carried away in a funeral…
Some artists make a compelling case for the power of moping. Take fractured folk songstress Erika M. Anderson—who after the demise of droning-folk duo Gowns, regrouped and presented herself as a solo artist,EMA.
A tableau of longing, revolt, and apocryphal journeys, ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’ will leave you bewitched and bewildered. Former member of the LA noise-folk duo, Gowns, Erika M.
EMA's grand-sounding solo debut fails to better the death dirge of her first single, says <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
Going solo has allowed Erika M. Anderson to make something genuinely personal and almost frighteningly honest.