Emmy The Great: "There is no Christmas next year, it's the apocalypse!"

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Darkly-festive/story-13252892-detail/story.html

Darkly festive
Friday, September 02, 2011
Nottingham Post

IT'S still, officially at least, British Summer Time, but Emmy The Great is already thinking about Santa. Although her second album, Virtue, is less than three months old, her next long-player will be a Christmas album with boyfriend Tim Wheeler, from Irish indie rockers Ash.

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The festive release is due out this December – "There is no Christmas next year, it's the apocalypse! So yes, (it'll be out) this Christmas," she smiles – but before then, there's her Keep Your Virtue Tour, which will find Emmy revisiting songs shaped by another close relationship.

Not too long ago, before she hooked up with Tim, Emmy (real name Emma-Lee Moss) was about to be married. But then her atheist husband-to-be suddenly discovered Christianity and one day, out of the blue, simply left the flat they shared together in North London ... and never came back.

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The songs were shaped by fairytales and mythology, saints, London architectural landmark Trellick Tower, power stations in the North of England, the writings of Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Marina Warner, music by the Cocteau Twins and Suzanne Vega, and much more. Yet Virtue is not at all downbeat or depressing.

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