Emily Wells - Regards to the End [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: MERU103CD
Barcode: 0648722649468
Release Date: 11 Mar 2022
Genre: Indie/Alternative

“I’m just a fire,” Emily Wells sings on her album Regards to the End, her ethereal warble floating over a backbeat of drums. “Burn everything in sight.” And so she does, in a new body of work that smolders and scorches, wounding and illuminating in equal turn. The polymathic composer, producer, and video artist explores the AIDS crisis, climate change, and her lived experience—as a queer musician from a long line of preachers, watching the world burn—in immaculately layered yet spare songs that impel the listener to be attuned, acting like a magnet on our attention. Along with a roster of contributors including her father, a French horn player and former music minister, she builds the songs on Regards to the End from deliberate strata of vocals, synths, drums, piano, string instruments (violin, cello, bass), and wind instruments (clarinet, flute, French horn). The music is numinous in part because the listening experience is a resoundingly bodied one. Life—unsanitary, beautiful, persistent, brief—swells inside of every note. EU tour slated for fall 2022.

Tracks SIDE A: 1. I’m Numbers 2. Two Dogs Tethered Inside 3. All Burn, No Bridge 4. Come On Kiki 5. David’s Got a Problem SIDE B: 6. Love Saves the Day 7. Oracle at Dog 8. Arnie and Bill to the Rescue 9. The Dress Rehearsal 10. Blood Brother