Emily Breeze - To release long awaited album 'Rapture' !!!

February 10th 2023

Album Release

Hear some Bristol Pop Noir!!!

Bristol based Pop Noir artist Emily Breeze returns with new album ‘Rapture’ on February 10th 2023 via Sugar Shack Records, and you can hear a couple of songs from it on this page. Written and recorded in her 40th year on planet Earth, the songs are a poignant and humorous take on how it feels to grow old disgracefully in an increasingly weird World. She describes the album as a "Collection of coming of (middle) age stories which celebrate flamboyant failure, excess and acceptance". We think she may have made a wise decision, releasing ‘Confessions of an ageing party Girl’ as a single because it received airplay from Lauren Laverne, Don Letts and Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6) who commented “The UK’s 21st century answer to Patti Smith”.

The second single off the upcoming album 'Rapture', ‘Ordinary Life’ spent four weeks on BBC Radio 6’s playlist seeing multiple plays from Amy Lame, Chris Hawkins, Steve Lamaq and Craig Charles who described the song as “an anthem” and invited Emily to do an interview as a special guest on the show. Emily has also found a fan in A-list actor Robert Carlyle who has shared both singles and commented “Emily Breeze is a talent...Love her”. Cosmology is also a consistent theme which forms a backdrop to the everyday experiences (a day at work, a night in the pub) which take place as the universe unfurls into the great enveloping infinite dark. Many of the songs use cut up excerpts from Science articles and quotes from cosmologists such as Carl Sagan which are spliced with Emily’s absurdist imagery.

Check Out! the Video for 'Confessions of an ageing party Girl' Below...

The album’s centrepiece ‘Part of Me’ is a five-minute sprawling epic which takes on the alternative fates of the towering figures of the 21st century “Elvis moved to the suburbs for a witness protection scheme” and “Princess Diana went undercover; she works at Anne Summers she wears a disguise”. These themes, images and ideas are beautifully illustrated through the talents of producer Stew Jackson (Massive Attack) and all-star band Rob Norbury (Lead Guitar), Andy Sutor (Drums), Helen Stanley (Keys / Synth) and George Caveney (Bass) who have collaborated with Emily to craft a Cinematic Pop Noir fantasy which draws influence from Vintage Exotica, Patti Smith, Pulp and Leonard Cohen.

Emily Breeze released her first solo album ‘The Penny Arcade’ in 2010 garnering critical acclaim including album of the year in Americana UK and support from BBC Radio 6 which resulted in Emily being described as “The love child of P.J Harvey and Johnny Cash in The Sunday Times, followed by performances at Glastonbury Festival, a headline slot at Bristol Festival and UK and European tour dates. Emily and long term collaborator Rob Norbury then went on to form psychedelic Post-Punk band Candy Darling and released two double A-side 7' singles ‘Money’ and ‘Going Straight’ which were supported by BBC Intro.

'Rapture' tracklisting Below:

01 Ordinary Life
02 The Bell
03 Oh, Anna Nicole
04 Dance with the Rats
05 Confessions Of an ageing party Girl
06 Part of Me
07 Cosmic Evolution
08 Turn me On
09 Chelsea Satanist
10 Hey Kidz