"Simple things like your rage with me / Or your beauty when you sleep..."
You may become mesmerized and drawn to your own thoughts by the gravitational pull of "Blind". It has a deeply cut groove pushed by a beat that feels nanoseconds in front of the cadence, a scintillating bass and cool inviting percolating guitar rhythms that carry Los Angeles singer-songwriter Emma Ayz's evocative voice. As I alluded to, you might get drawn in the the atmosphere, the sound of Emma's vocal aesthetic, the rolling synths and dreamy hard edged guitar lead so much that you enter your own world, in your head with just your own thoughts and feelings. It is easy to do.
If you do just that you might lose the thrust of Emma's words that thread through a relationship on broken glass (and trying not to get cut). There are dashes of blame (maybe) and complacency (maybe).
And you’re gone just in time, baby are you goin’ blind? /
Maybe I hold you to blame for all the reasons I’m still cold /
And you’re gone just in time, baby are you goin’ blind?"
It feels like a heartbreak song and Emma's debut EP "Animus" maybe full of it. Press notey stuff indicate that:
[....the LA-based singer songwriter references the Jungian archetype of animus, or “learning to embrace my subconscious and live in harmony with both my masculine and feminine sides,” she says. That’s why a number of her tracks willfully mingle reflections of herself with observations about her relationships—a potent, narrative head-trick that’s surprisingly relatable. Emma wrote and recorded her five-song EP in 2021 with contributions from guitarist Dylan Day (Jenny Lewis, Ethan Gruska, Nick Hakim), bassist Daniel Rhine (Madison Cunningham, Phoebe Bridgers), and engineer/co-producer Cassidy Turbin (Beck). “The decision to even make music and to pursue it full time was the biggest act of self-love,” she says. “Everything is now intertwined with my art.” Emma is currently at work on my first full-length album, produced by Luke Temple.]
Get lost in "Blind" all you want, move to it and then delve into the reflective lyrics and listen again.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.emmaayz.com/
https://twitter.com/emmaayzenberg
https://emmaayz.bandcamp.com/releases
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4dKpp8jzDVeg4Xoraj6xAL
Much of the magic of Emma Ayz’s music lies in how she’s mastered the beauty of heartbreak. Amid unrest and change, the iridescent folk-pop artist embraces the unknown, gently oscillating between angst and resolve. On her debut EP, Animus, the LA-based singer songwriter references the Jungian archetype of animus, or “learning to embrace my subconscious and live in harmony with both my masculine and feminine sides,” she says. That’s why a number of her tracks willfully mingle reflections of herself with observations about her relationships—a potent, narrative head-trick that’s surprisingly relatable. Emma wrote and recorded her five-song EP in 2021 with contributions from guitarist Dylan Day (Jenny Lewis, Ethan Gruska, Nick Hakim), bassist Daniel Rhine (Madison Cunningham, Phoebe Bridgers), and engineer/co-producer Cassidy Turbin (Beck). “The decision to even make music and to pursue it full time was the biggest act of self-love,” she says. “Everything is now intertwined with my art.” Emma is currently at work on my first full-length album, produced by Luke Temple.
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Emma Ayz, singer songwriter, musician, creative, evocative vocals, thought provoking prose, deep cut grooves, "Blind", dreamy, dark, hard edges, sophisticated, debut EP "Animus", Los Angeles,
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