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Im 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.

Im 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.
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Regards to the End [LP]
Artist: Emily Wells
Format: Vinyl
New: In Stock $25.99
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DISC: 1

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

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Im 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.

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  • Pitchforkalbum review(7.2 score) Surprise and precision are Wells greatest assets as a composer, andRegards to the Endis filled with both.
  • ABandcampEssential Releasefor March 4 These carefully constructed orchestral art-pop songs yearn and ache through struggle and survival, capturing emotional nuances and contradictions in exquisite detail.
  • Vinyl Me PleaseAlbum of the WeekEmily Wells music has a way of being cathartic and expressive in ways that words alone cannot accurately convey.
  • AnNPR Musictop 5 albums out on Feb. 25[the songs] have a fury to them but also a real kind of delicacy and arty-ness
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