NEW ALBUM, IT’S UP TO EMMA, OUT NEXT WEEK ON DRAG CITY

 

  

 

Drag City presents “Gun,” a brand-new Scout Niblett video featuring a brand-new tune from her album, It’s Up to Emma, in stores May 21st on, you guessed it, Drag City. The video follows Scout as she embraces her inner Snow White and wanders through a local fair spreading good will as only Scout-as-Snow-White can. “Gun” is quite the surreal fantasia, evoking fragility and innocence while also conjuring spite and vengeance in an everyday American landscape. The palpably weird seems to hang over the scenes of Scout at the fair, waving from a carousel, soaring into the sky on a ferris wheel and posing with kids for family photo-ops; her sunny demeanor juxtaposing pleasantly with the circumstances within the song. No kidding, the combination of musical, lyrical and video images has an eminently debatable effect upon the viewer in today’s mixed-up, muddled-up world. Impose Magazine describes “Gun” as bringing “a modern murder ballad bang that begins a search to fulfill the absent space between closure and revenge set to the holiday lifestyle of a fairy tale monarch . . . The contrasts from the video’s festival cheer to the song’s heavy heart weights provide more complicated underlying edges for a song about unfinished business” — a prevalent theme throughout the entire It’s Up to Emma album. Before stepping in up to your neck, get your feet wet at “Gun”-point! 

 

 

 

“I love an album that knows how to make an entrance, an album that makes its presence known. Scout Niblett’s upcoming LP, It’s Up To Emma, very much obliges.” – Aquarium Drunkard

 

“her emotions lie just below the surface, threatening to escape in full, spilling out all over the place, incinerating everything in their vicinity. It’s as if her instrumental restraint keeps them in check.” – The Stranger

 

“Listen with the lights on.” – Uncut

 

Scout Niblett’s It’s Up to Emma pre-order – http://www.dragcity.com/products/its-up-to-emma

 

Scout Niblett’s official website – http://www.scoutniblett.com/

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