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Mar 15, 2016All-in-all, Second Loves is well worth peeling back the layers of upon a strong handful of listens.
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Mar 14, 2016Second Love is a benchmark smashed and an affecting portrait of a millennial lost soul.
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Mar 11, 2016Both muted and epic, Second Love foresees a future where torch singers are forlorn replicants and a post-human’s ElectroFolk.2 port is hard-wired to its heart. You’ll believe they can 3D-print love songs now.
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Mar 9, 2016The droll poetry of Emmy's lyrics are brilliantly showcased in 'Hyperlink'.
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Mar 7, 2016Second Love pays off most of all on those repeated listens--it’s not her most immediate collection of songs, but over time they reveal themselves to be her most rewarding.
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UncutFeb 19, 2016The rewards are high. [Mar 2016, p.73]
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Q MagazineFeb 19, 2016As her previous two albums showed, Moss is a dab hand at writing about affairs of the heart. [Apr 2016, p.105]
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Feb 19, 2016[Phoenixes is] given layers of treated guitar and robotic backing vocals, creating a stillness that ramps up the emotional effect of the song. It’s indicative of the qualities of the album as a whole; potent stuff.
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Mar 9, 2016She’s more confident, done explaining herself. Moss’ dense paragraphs have been stripped down to just a few words, and the results are more poetry than prose.
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Apr 1, 2016The songs are foundationally solid enough in their swaying rhythms and sublime melodies that they don’t need twists to keep them interesting, but the care Emmy puts into the album’s crevices makes it one of the fullest-sounding and fullest-feeling singer/songwriter LPs of early 2016.
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Mar 10, 2016Dedicated fans will want to note that two of the tracks--"Swimming Pool" and "Social Halo"--were taken from her 2015 EP S, though the ten additional tracks more than make up for any duplication.
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Mar 8, 2016A beautiful and immersive listening experience, Second Love's emotionally warm sounds are a pleasure to sink into.
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Mar 9, 2016In another step away from her new-folk singer-songwriter roots, Emmy The Great has delivered with a well-considered venture into a wider, colder, dystopian world.
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Apr 13, 2016If only she would’ve toned down the unnecessary sensual flourishes to cultivate more of what she does best: amiable, pleasant songs with outwardly simple, yet weighty underlying truths.
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MojoFeb 19, 2016Emmy's most effective tool is a sense of place, and her journey from experience to the finished work, saturated in detail, is often a lot darker than her measured delivery suggests. [Mar 2016, p.94]