tag:sargenthouse.com,2005:/blogs/err-tumblr?p=1ERR blog2022-08-23T05:14:03-07:00Sargent Housefalsetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/70439792022-08-23T05:14:03-07:002024-02-23T11:20:20-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE EU WINTER TOUR 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/43d50ce552ea022085b251a4f643e8ca22ad5b86/original/s7oxrru4.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/70439782022-08-23T05:12:42-07:002022-08-23T05:12:42-07:00“A PLACE IN OUR BRAINS THAT WE CANNOT TALK ABOUT”: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ON ESOTERIC SOUNDS, MUSICAL MOTIVATIONS, AND MAKING CLOSER CONNECTIONS<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/dab106db1750f4a92a58c5015ead0c44894c6154/original/screenshot-2022-08-12-at-12-57-21.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/42701097edea38434a98ffc4c9a380ebc0bef685/original/screenshot-2022-08-23-at-14-09-01.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/165ef437636d92f1fd8ed2ecd8ed9c7ffd3d7316/original/emma-ruth-rundle-credit-bobby-cochrane-2000x1500-1392x1044.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>There’s no doubt that Rundle’s music – which occupies the hypnotic intersection between doom metal, affecting singer/songwriter folk, and densely layered shoegaze – doesn’t often cross over into pop. It is, however, at least in the same neighborhood; on albums such as 2016’s Marked For Death and 2018’s On Dark Horses, she found soaring hooks and sublime melodies within stormy musical exorcisms, the likes of which make a moving target of genre, even when the aesthetic itself remains uniquely her own. </p>
<p>In 2020, the artist began to release a sequence of music that challenged the basic idea of what an Emma Ruth Rundle album is meant to sound like. First came a full-length collaboration with experimental metal band Thou, May Our Chambers Be Full, in 2020, which juxtaposed her melodic dream-doom against the Louisiana group’s complex sludge. Then came two even more audacious records: a singer/songwriter album with no backing and almost no effects, and an instrumental set of solo guitar improvisations – neither of which is easily marketable. Commercial albums these are not, but Rundle nonetheless trusted her instincts, even when faced with the uncertainty of how they’d be received.</p>
<p><a contents="Full interview via Guitar.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://guitar.com/features/interviews/emma-ruth-rundle-album-engine-of-hell/?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=&fbclid=IwAR3_67GRL056TwHnVD_iTLtoSKYm8obYpVB_xcmG1PZ1P5P8X3Ypm5egkm0"><em><strong>Full interview via Guitar.com</strong></em></a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69775762022-05-23T06:17:55-07:002022-08-18T06:31:56-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE THE DOWSING VOICE ART SHOW WORKS NOW AVAILABLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6965f9e6aaf6583397037a7615c4e3f1da854c8f/original/mwleehvw.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle's The Dowsing Voice</strong> show will be open by appointment Lethal Amounts in Los Angeles for the next month and all works are now available through their site:<strong> <a contents="https://store.lethalamounts.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://store.lethalamounts.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle">https://store.lethalamounts.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle</a></strong></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/e028ca7637527e3d95abdc8c20007eed0df140d0/original/cjl-io18.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/46a1f0e20e25e5b4c71d13fc189158023ff4a9bd/original/cjl-io18.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69704262022-05-13T09:54:09-07:002022-05-13T09:54:09-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE'S EG2: DOWSING VOICE IS OUT TODAY ON BANDCAMP<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/37b1c9bc1fd2d32efc522f26a736666ee143eb4f/original/1no4vffy.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle</strong>’s second installment in her Electric Guitar series, <strong>EG2: Dowsing Voice</strong>, is like the soundtrack to a film that hasn’t been made. The mostly instrumental record follows her on a trip to the Welsh coast and down a magical well into the waters of nature, myth and the Old Golds - by way of her improvised music. The 40 plus minute album was sewn together from recordings channeled during her month-long solo journey in the early days of 2020 and completed before 2021’s critically lauded album Engine of Hell was even written. </p>
<p>Unlike Electric Guitar One, EG2: Dowsing Voice features vocal improvisation, unconventional singing and extended vocal techniques free from lyrics - like the throat singing on “In the Cave…” which is meant to be the voices of crones gathering in a rhythmic and physical ritual. Rundle was led to these voices by unseen forces along with the immense impact of the Welsh water: ocean, rivers springs and wells that gave the album its extended title Dowsing Voice. While there is some focus on vocal and story here, her textural and even bombastic guitar improvisations are featured throughout the album. The album is accompanied by a massive body of visual artwork Rundle created in her studio upon returning to the states in an attempt to further flesh out the world and beings she encountered in the landscapes and music during her trip to Wales. The blood self-portrait on the cover is from this series and is meant to capture the moment after rebirth. For Rundle, the Electric Guitar series will always be about inspired, unplanned moments like this at its core.</p>
<p><strong>Info: <a contents="https://linktr.ee/emmaruthrundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://linktr.ee/emmaruthrundle">https://linktr.ee/emmaruthrundle</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69675572022-05-10T03:21:57-07:002022-05-10T03:21:57-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE EU/UK TOUR 2022 w/ JO QUAIL<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/97a6a5a5fed8702302b613ee11075c72dc601772/original/err-jo-new-admat.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle will be joined by the talented cellist and composer Jo Quail during her EU/UK tour 2022. Full dates below. </p>
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<p><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle EU/UK TOUR with special guest Jo Quail </strong></p>
<p>Jul 5 Lisboa PT Culturgest * </p>
<p>Jul 6 Porto PT Casa da Música SOLD-OUT * </p>
<p>Jul 7 Leiria PT CDIL Igreja da Misericórdia SOLD-OUT * </p>
<p>Jul 9 Lille FR The Black Lab </p>
<p>Jul 10 Rennes FR Antipode </p>
<p>Jul 11 Paris FR Théâtre L’Européen </p>
<p>Jul 12 Dampierre-Les-Bois FR Le Temple </p>
<p>Jul 14 Bruxelles BE Botanique Museum SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>JUL 15 Ghent BE Boomtown Festival </p>
<p>Jul 16 Nijmegen NL Stevenskerk </p>
<p>Jul 17 Berlin DE Passionkirche </p>
<p>Jul 19 Hamburg DE Übel & Gefärlich </p>
<p>Jul 20 Leipzig DE UT Connewitz </p>
<p>Jul 21 Bochum DE Christuskirche </p>
<p>Jul 22 Wiesbaden de - Hessisches Landesmuseum </p>
<p>Jul 24 Sion CH Palp Festival * </p>
<p>Aug 11 Birmingham UK Bradshaw Hall </p>
<p>Aug 12 Leeds UK Brudenell Social Club </p>
<p>Aug 13 Newcastle UK Gosforth Civic Theatre </p>
<p>Aug 14 Glasgow UK Mackintosh Queen’s Cross </p>
<p>Aug 16 Belfast UK St. Patrick’s Parish </p>
<p>Aug 17 Limerick IE Dolan’s Music Hall </p>
<p>Aug 18 Dublin IE St. Ann </p>
<p>Aug 20 Bristol UK ArcTanGent Festival </p>
<p>Aug 21 Manchester UK Stoller Hall </p>
<p>Aug 22 London UK Clapham Grand </p>
<p>Aug 23 Brighton UK Komedia </p>
<p>*ERR only </p>
<p>Info / Tickets: <a contents="emmaruthrundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69617382022-05-02T10:05:50-07:002022-05-02T10:05:50-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE: DOWSING VOICE ART EXHIBITION<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/1127734d87ebce8a9c503ab6926f7f06f682911d/original/image.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />An exhibition of selected works by multi disciplinary artist Emma Ruth Rundle from her forthcoming concept album and book titled Dowsing Voices. Works will be available for sale as well as a batch of books that sold out immediately upon release via Sargent House.</p>
<p><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle - 'Dowsing Voice' Art Exhibition </strong></p>
<p><strong>Friday, May 20, 2022 <br>7:30 PM 10:30 PM </strong></p>
<p><strong>Lethal Amounts<br>LLC1226 West 7th Street<br>Los Angeles</strong></p>
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<p><strong>More info: <a contents="lethalamounts.com/events/emmaruthrundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.lethalamounts.com/events/emmaruthrundle">lethalamounts.com/events/emmaruthrundle</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69482122022-04-14T09:02:57-07:002022-04-14T09:02:57-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Talks the Self-Reflection and Freedom of Composing the Score to Dual<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/5f85f698d5fecf99a566c8c7fc4d0054dc043d97/original/screenshot-2022-04-14-at-17-55-37.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/71fc125c89b0f0d6c3b67174fac175c386b2fe3c/original/screenshot-2022-04-14-at-17-55-45.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p><strong>Musician Emma Ruth Rundle</strong>'s solo albums initially draw listeners in with evocatively eerie instrumentation and ghostly vocals, with the lyrics themselves showcasing her introspection and vulnerability. This duality of introductory surrealism paving the way for deeper meditations of one's own identity matches perfectly with writer/director <strong>Riley Stearns' new film Dual,</strong> which saw him use Rundle's tracks to serve as a temporary score as well as enlisted her to officially score the absurdly comedic sci-fi experience. Having been a member of bands like Marriages and Red Sparowes and having also released music frequently with Thou, Rundle is no stranger to collaboration, yet for her first feature-length score, she was presented with new opportunities that offered her freeing experiences not afforded to her in her solo work. Dual lands in theaters on April 15th. </p>
<p>In the film, "Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death. Now she has one year to train her body and mind for the fight of her life." </p>
<p>ComicBook.com caught up with Rundle to talk her process, the themes she identified with in Dual, and her love of the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.</p>
<p><strong><a contents="Full interview via comicbook.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://comicbook.com/movies/news/dual-movie-emma-ruth-rundle-interview-music-composer-score/">Full interview via comicbook.com</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69438312022-04-08T07:32:52-07:002022-04-08T07:32:52-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ANNOUNCES EG2: DOWSING VOICE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/37b1c9bc1fd2d32efc522f26a736666ee143eb4f/original/1no4vffy.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>In 2011 Emma Ruth Rundle started her solo career by releasing Electric Guitar One, a gorgeous instrumental album full of textures, drones, and melodies that breakthrough, repeat and fade back into the drone, and today she has announced the second installment of the series in EG2: Dowsing Voice. Available May 13th via Sargent House today, you can hear the first track: “Imbolc Dawn Atop Ynys Wydryn. Ice Melts as the First Resplendent Rays of Spring Pour Over the Horizon.” Almost like the soundtrack to a film that was never made, EG 2 follows her on a trip to the Welsh coast and down a magical well into the waters of nature, myth and the Old Golds - by way of her improvised music. The 40 plus minute album was sewn together from recordings channeled during her month-long solo journey in the early days of 2020 and completed before 2021’s critically lauded album Engine of Hell was even written. </p>
<p>Electric Guitar One is how director Riley Stearns discovered Rundle, who later brought her on board to score his upcoming movie Dual which hits theaters next Friday, April 15th. The Soundtrack to the film will be released by Sargent House later this year. More info to come. </p>
<p>Unlike Electric Guitar One, EG2: Dowsing Voice features vocal improvisation, unconventional singing, and extended vocal techniques free from lyrics - like the throat singing on “In the Cave…” which is meant to be the voices of crones gathering in a rhythmic and physical ritual. Rundle was led to these voices by unseen forces along with the immense impact of the Welsh water: ocean, rivers, springs and wells that gave the album its extended title Dowsing Voice. While there is some focus on vocal and story here, her textural and even bombastic guitar improvisations are featured throughout the album </p>
<p>EG2: Dowsing Voice will be available only via physical vinyl release and Bandcamp download. The vinyl is accompanied by a massive body of visual artwork Rundle created in her studio upon returning to the states in an attempt to further flesh out the world and beings she encountered in the landscapes and music during her trip to Wales. The blood self-portrait on the cover is from this series and is meant to capture the moment after rebirth. For Rundle, the Electric Guitar series will always be about inspired, unplanned moments like this at its core. </p>
<p><strong>Order the vinyl/book only at <a contents="emmaruthrundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com">emmaruthrundle.com</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/90637b2b7ff6208803c79dcb9d80f31e39122805/original/eg2-graphic.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69377852022-04-01T05:09:42-07:002022-04-01T05:13:21-07:00THE TRAILER OF THE MOVIE DUAL SCORED BY EMMA RUTH RUNDLE IS OUT NOW<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uPzyA1gMNsM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>The movie DUAL comes out in theaters on April 15th. </p>
<p>Score by Emma Ruth Rundle, starring Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul, Beulah Koale, Theo James. Written and Directed by Riley Stearns.</p>
<p>Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death. Now she has one year to train her body and mind for the fight of her life.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/67f170dd4a4d39264b9663f43b8e44fab4d82334/original/271185610-478253923664621-9182690572959036371-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="Emma Ruth Rundle with the director Riley Stearns" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="font_small">Emma Ruth Rundle with the director Riley Stearns</span></em></p>
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<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69348642022-03-29T06:35:39-07:002022-03-29T06:35:39-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE PERFORMANCE AT FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS POSTPONED <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8ae18a86327599ff9d7b3257f250a29625150a8b/original/277348302-529973611825985-864501062593153618-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Due to her rescheduled EU/UK tour in July/ August 2022, Emma Ruth Rundle won’t be able to perform at Fire In The Mountains this year. She will be back soon.</p>
<p><strong>More info about ERR shows: <a contents="emmaruthrundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com">emmaruthrundle.com</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69318032022-03-25T06:42:51-07:002022-03-25T06:42:51-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE RELEASES ORPHEUS LOOKING BACK EP<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a8405bc256be9be415b521dba0703d494a39206a/original/err-olb-cover-1.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle has released a new EP Orpheus Looking Back, a small collection of unreleased songs from the Engine Of Hell sessions, her highly lauded 2021 album. These three bare and intimate performances are in keeping with the album's unadorned style. “Pump Organ Song”, released earlier this month was written spontaneously in the studio in response to her failing marriage and the availability of an old pump organ in the tracking room. Of the other two songs Rundle notes: </p>
<p>“Saint Non” was written in Wales after visiting the eponymous well, chapel and spring at Saint David in Pembrokeshire - the song was the only lyrical contender for EG2 but made more sense on EOH - originally was sequenced as the album closer but I struck it from the record entirely at the last minute, finding In My Afterlife a more appropo final stop on the journey. Despite my feeling that it is a special song, it didn't belong on EOH...and then there is “Gilded Cage”, a song I wrote in Berlin a number of years ago and have loved to play live because of its energy - it was also an outlier and couldn't make the cut but deserved to live beyond the live show somehow.” </p>
<p>Engine of Hell, released in November of 2021, is a stark, intimate and unflinching look at trauma and grief. The album focused on a return to the piano, an instrument she left behind in her early twenties. The Engine of Hell recording sessions took place in Stinson Beach in December 2020, with Sonny DePerri co-producing/engineering.</p>
<p>Stream / Download: <a contents="https://ffm.to/err-olb" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ffm.to/err-olb">https://ffm.to/err-olb</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69297362022-03-23T06:08:48-07:002022-03-23T06:09:43-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & CHELSEA WOLFE AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND TOUR UPDATE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/facfcfd27653a9245e1d7ace9a153d314ec745a3/original/cw-err-fb-header-2022.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
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<p>Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle New Zealand & Australia tour. The Auckland show has just moved to a bigger venue. Tickets are selling fast: <a contents="chelseawolfe.net" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.chelseawolfe.net">e</a><a contents="emmaruthrundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com">mmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
<p>JUN 09 Wellington, NZ @ San Fran <br>JUN 10 Auckland, NZ @ Powerstation <br>JUN 12 Brisbane, AU @ The Triffid <br>JUN 13 Adelaide, AU @ The Gov <br>JUN 14 Perth, AU @ Rosemount Hotel <br>JUN 17 Sydney, AU @ Manning Bar <br>JUN 18 Melbourne, AU @ ( SOLD OUT ) <br>JUN 19 Melbourne, AU @ Max Watts <br>JUN 20 Hobart, TZ @ Dark Mofo</p>
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<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69289752022-03-16T09:00:00-07:002022-03-22T09:47:17-07:00NEW SHOW ADDED TO EMMA RUTH RUNDLE EU/UK TOUR 2022<p>Last show added to Emma Ruth Rundle EU/UK tour for 2022. She’ll play in Wiesbaden (DE). Don’t miss her live this year. Tickets are selling fast. <br> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/aba40fad9c6b29e8c43ed2edfc2adace51492fe5/original/275988409-522413529248660-5730461715469716032-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong>EU/UK TOUR </strong></p>
<p>Apr 23 Tilburg NL @ Roadburn Festival SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>Jul 5 Lisboa PT @ Culturgest </p>
<p>Jul 6 Porto PT @ Casa Da Musica SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>Jul 7 Leiria PT @ CDIL Igreja da Misericórdia SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>Jul 9 Lille FR @ The Black Lab </p>
<p>Jul 10 Rennes FR @ Antipode </p>
<p>Jul 11 Paris FR @ Théâtre L’Européen </p>
<p>Jul 12 Dampierre-Les-Bois FR @ Le Temple </p>
<p>Jul 14 Bruxelles BE @ Botanique Museum SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>JUL 15 Ghent BE @boomtowngent </p>
<p>Jul 16 Nijmegen NL @ Stevenskerk </p>
<p>Jul 17 Berlin DE @ Passionkirche </p>
<p>Jul 19 Hamburg DE @ Übel & Gefärlich </p>
<p>Jul 20 Leipzig DE @ UT Connewitz </p>
<p>Jul 21 Bochum DE @ Christuskirche </p>
<p>Jul 22 Wiesbaden DE @ Hessisches Landesmuseum </p>
<p>Jul 24 Sion CH @palp_festival </p>
<p>Aug 11 Birmingham UK @ Bradshaw Hall </p>
<p>Aug 12 Leeds UK @ Brudenell Social Club </p>
<p>Aug 13 Newcastle UK @ Gosforth Civic Theatre </p>
<p>Aug 14 Glasgow UK @ Mackintosh Queen’s Cross </p>
<p>Aug 16 Belfast UK @ St. Patrick’s Parish </p>
<p>Aug 17 Limerick IE @ Dolan’s Music Hall </p>
<p>Aug 18 Dublin IE @ St. Ann </p>
<p>Aug 20 Bristol UK @arctangentfestival </p>
<p>Aug 21 Manchester UK @ Stoller Hall </p>
<p>Aug 22 London UK @ Clapham Grand </p>
<p>Aug 23 Brighton UK @ Komedia </p>
<p><strong>AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND with Chelsea Wolfe</strong></p>
<p>Jun 09 San Fran - Wellington, NZ </p>
<p>Jun 10 Powerstation - Auckland, NZ </p>
<p>Jun 12 The Triffid - Brisbane, AU </p>
<p>Jun 13 The Gov - Adelaide, AU </p>
<p>Jun 14 Rosemount Hotel - Perth, AU </p>
<p>Jun 17 Manning Bar - Sydney, AU </p>
<p>Jun 18 Max Watts - Melbourne, AU (SOLD-OUT) </p>
<p>Jun 19 Max Watts - Melbourne, AU </p>
<p>Jun 20 Dark Mofo - Hobart TZ</p>
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<p>emmaruthrundle.com </p>
<p>@emmawondra</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69237092022-03-16T08:10:25-07:002022-03-16T08:10:25-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE SOLO PERFORMANCE AT DARK MOFO 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/ebeffd725333619457291f77782219bd3c08a42a/original/dark-mofo.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Tasmania’s festival Dark Mofo returns on 8–22 June 2022.</p>
<p>Week One highlights include the launch of the festival’s full art program, including influential video and new media artist Bill Viola (USA), as well as the photographer, sculpturist, and multi-channel video artist Doug Aitken (USA). </p>
<p>There will also be a special ‘Mona Up Late’ opening of three new major exhibitions: Jeremy Shaw (Canada), Fiona Hall (lutruwita/Tasmania) and AJ King (lutruwita/Tasmania bigambul/wakka wakka), and Robert Andrew(Brisbane Yawuru), and this year the event will see the return of its exclusive and infamously debaucherous costume event, this year titled The Blue Rose Ball. </p>
<p>As for week two, highlights include celebrated musician, composer and producer Nils Frahm (Germany) playing a number of world premiere shows titled ‘Music For Hobart’. He will also perform at the Opera House as part of VIVID Live, with the festivals working together to secure exclusive Australian performances. </p>
<p>Other major international artists feature as well, including performances by the devastatingly beautiful, classically-trained multi-instrumentalist Lingua Ignota (USA), the visual artist, writer, actor and a founding member of the post-punk experimental rock band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon and band, performing songs from her 2019 solo release ‘No Home Record’, renowned space rock band Spiritualized^ (England), an exclusive appearance from rock band Deafheaven, plus a full band rock set from Chelsea Wolfe and a solo piano set from Emma Ruth Rundle (USA).</p>
<p><a contents="More info: darkmofo.net.au" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.darkmofo.net.au">More info: darkmofo.net.au</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69124282022-03-03T05:07:54-08:002022-03-03T05:07:54-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ANNOUNCES ORPHEUS LOOKING BACK EP<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a8405bc256be9be415b521dba0703d494a39206a/original/err-olb-cover-1.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle has announced a new EP Orpheus Looking Back, a small collection of unreleased songs from the Engine Of Hell sessions, her highly lauded 2021 album. Set for a March 25th release via Sargent House, these three bare and intimate performances are in keeping with the album's unadorned style. “Pump Organ Song” the first to be shared from the EP, was written spontaneously in the studio in response to her failing marriage and the availability of an old pump organ in the tracking room. Rundle Notes: “In the year that has come since recording the song, I feel more and more connected to this love song. It is still speaking to me about the process of parting ways and how romantic arrangements change and relationships close.” </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QiwPfhi7y9w" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
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<p>Engine of Hell, released in November of 2021, is a stark, intimate and unflinching look at trauma and grief. The album, which saw acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, Stereogum, and more, focused on a return to the piano, an instrument she left behind in her early twenties. The Engine of Hell recording sessions took place in Stinson Beach in December 2020, with Sonny DePerri co-producing/engineering.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68908552022-02-07T07:56:31-08:002022-02-07T07:56:31-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE RESCHEDULED EU/UK TOUR 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a891a1f620de72c0eb4421a2fd8133169da43aac/original/err-ig-square.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle's EU/UK tour shows have been rescheduled. You can find the new dates below. For all the info/tickets: <a contents="emmaruthrundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
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<p><strong>EU/UK TOUR </strong></p>
<p>Apr 23 Tilburg NL Roadburn Festival SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>Jul 5 Lisboa PT Culturgest </p>
<p>Jul 6 Porto PT Casa da Música </p>
<p>Jul 7 Leiria PT CDIL Igreja da Misericórdia </p>
<p>Jul 9 Lille FR The Black Lab </p>
<p>Jul 10 Rennes FR Antipode </p>
<p>Jul 11 Paris FR Théâtre L’Européen </p>
<p>Jul 12 Dampierre-Les-Bois FR Le Temple </p>
<p>Jul 14 Bruxelles BE Botanique Museum </p>
<p>Jul 16 Nijmegen NL Stevenskerk </p>
<p>Jul 17 Berlin DE Passionkirche </p>
<p>Jul 19 Hamburg DE Übel & Gefärlich </p>
<p>Jul 20 Leipzig DE UT Connewitz </p>
<p>Jul 21 Bochum DE Christuskirche </p>
<p>Jul 24 Sion CH Palp Festival </p>
<p>Aug 11 Birmingham UK Bradshaw Hall </p>
<p>Aug 12 Leeds UK Brudenell Social Club </p>
<p>Aug 13 Newcastle UK Gosforth Civic Theatre </p>
<p>Aug 14 Glasgow UK Mackintosh Queen’s Cross </p>
<p>Aug 16 Belfast UK St. Patrick’s Parish </p>
<p>Aug 17 Limerick IE Dolan’s Music Hall </p>
<p>Aug 18 Dublin IE St. Ann </p>
<p>Aug 20 Bristol UK ArcTanGent Festival </p>
<p>Aug 21 Manchester UK Stoller Hall </p>
<p>Aug 22 London UK Clapham Grand </p>
<p>Aug 23 Brighton UK Komedia</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68853972022-02-01T07:43:33-08:002022-02-01T07:43:33-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE: INTERVIEW FOR ARTRIBUNE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/316d609d87b2ccbc5c6e02378ac6385700d14391/original/screenshot-2022-02-01-at-16-40-01.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/2242ec21cfa829d53dbb9fd276c02b9c9371ec6a/original/screenshot-2022-02-01-at-16-40-12.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The Italian Artribune magazine talked with Emma Ruth Rundle about her music and art.</p>
<p>Full interview: <a contents="artribune.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.artribune.com/arti-performative/musica/2022/01/intervista-emma-ruth-rundle/">artribune.com</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68779282022-01-24T04:05:59-08:002022-01-24T04:05:59-08:00The Alliance for Women Film Composers celebrates Emma Ruth Rundle<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c0929a437af27b2c4a2f5ce29cf9c77016d7ace9/original/screenshot-2022-01-24-at-12-53-44.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>The Alliance for Women Film Composers celebrates the women and NB composers of 2022 Sundance Film Festival </p>
<p>"Dual" <br>Music by Emma Ruth Rundle <br>Dir. Riley Stearns </p>
<p>More info: <a contents="theawfc.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftheawfc.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3a3yFXNQdLE4FUjbbRfI5XcLI-w5bU0TcKjbTxJKCaXCFGv_Msek1bqpc&h=AT3tWuXzQFG-_T9ptFVtflhnossPymsbuVXoxT1BBEVpACG1wlG24aMgeqHZC8p6gV9UpszdaugfUJ7hW18OmHZnXIRY5OLgLfft6TLoIrgI5gaZ0Dh2UCRIRltF4F8fHThSByNDLA&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT0qsObaOTn07GdlbC0ATIAj5LKKU2yeME4Qcgt1U5OjbUaHtXPwE8neL1CY9MNjdoqSkpO7ho6fSB0Tn3RZTWcLCir0BfQ21wpmg29QGf5dHQqp59mRFFKwjix7Qce1Iua11-48YEB-jmXGZUQnDb36N7CdpgVOcoYou_5M-B6MpQ">theawfc.com</a> and <a contents="festival.sundance.org" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://festival.sundance.org/program/?fbclid=IwAR3ujye6tAL4uT91HBRzNCcMJ3hMUvyyVO_YtqamTgKW7_rVbm_H61N8RTI#film-info/61ae090b6c1de551a4c810cb">festival.sundance.org</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68726952022-01-18T08:42:12-08:002022-01-18T08:42:13-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE: FEBRUARY 2022 EU/UK TOUR POSTPONED<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8a17ed50b2a95bb684f6dfa3cc0c9a9eaad07a0f/original/postponed2.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Due to the continuing issues with Covid restrictions and safety we decided to postpone Emma Ruth Rundle EU/UK tour planned for February 2022. We are working with all the promoters to schedule new dates, and will announce the new shows as soon as possible. Tickets are still valid.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68612502022-01-06T14:10:03-08:002022-01-06T14:10:03-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE: THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT INTERVIEW<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d46c4369134368838d12ba12b14392df0d291308/original/err-emmawondra.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p>Musician and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle discusses creating an approachable schedule, setting digestible goals, and how human flaws create emotional and authentic connections in art.</p>
<p><a contents="Full Interview via&nbsp;thecreativeindependent.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-and-visual-artist-emma-ruth-rundle-on-showing-up-and-doing-the-work/">Full Interview via thecreativeindependent.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68599002022-01-05T09:31:56-08:002022-01-19T09:16:35-08:00THE MOVIE DUAL WITH THE SCORE BY EMMA RUTH RUNDLE SELECTED FOR SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/44916007a9ce84ad3af69e45c9ed35f6cea1d300/original/271229098-478253913664622-4523032693499461776-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle scored her first film, DUAL by director Riley Stearns with Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul and Beulah Koale. The movie has been selected for competition at Sundance Film Festival 2022.</p>
<p><strong>DUAL</strong><br>Recently diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease, Sarah is unsure how to process the news. To help ease her friends’ and family’s impending loss, she is encouraged to participate in a simple futuristic cloning procedure called “Replacement,” after which Sarah’s last days will be spent teaching the clone how to live on as Sarah once she’s gone. But while it takes only an hour for a clone to be made, things become significantly more challenging when that double is no longer wanted. </p>
<p>This darkly off-kilter comedy marks a welcome return to the Festival from writer-director Riley Stearns (The Cub, Sundance 2013). He straddles a curious line between deadpan satire and high-concept storytelling to take us on a sci-fi journey into the ways a catastrophic life change can force reconsideration of one’s entire existence. In the lead dual role, an oddly charming Karen Gillan proves the perfect match for Stearns’s strange, strange cinematic world.</p>
<p>More info: <a contents="Sundace Film Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://festival.sundance.org/program/?fbclid=IwAR3t1XmW2PUR66asxrBarw1enLbRPeub4hm8FHxbTkF2a9NdBgTdXhplDJk#film-info/61ae090b6c1de551a4c810cb">Sundance Film Festival</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/67f170dd4a4d39264b9663f43b8e44fab4d82334/original/271185610-478253923664621-9182690572959036371-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68578992022-01-03T07:12:47-08:002022-01-03T07:12:47-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ON RECONNECTING WITH HER PAST WITH ‘ENGINE OF HELL’<p> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/997e8d00bdca3e4ede47f99d189ac00eeeb6f394/original/pjimage.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle’s fifth solo album sees her confront and pick at the bones of her darkest memories, searching for closure. Fragile, vulnerable and raw, it’s her most emotional and conceptually heavy album yet.</p>
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<p><a contents="Full interview via altpress.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.altpress.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-interview-engine-of-hell/">Full interview via altpress.com</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68319592021-12-06T13:37:06-08:002021-12-06T13:37:06-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE TALKED WITH ATTN MAGAZINE PODCAST ABOUT HER INFLUENTIAL ALBUMS<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/1cfe9e92e8331d12f2d32033b8c42821d1a13611/original/screenshot-2021-12-06-at-13-29-48.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle discusses three important albums that inspire her music.</p>
<p>Listen to the podcast via<a contents=" attnmagazine.uk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/features/15590"> attnmagazine.uk</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68256272021-11-30T11:11:48-08:002021-11-30T11:11:48-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE WILL PLAY ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/eb13c1f431ffe6042763fef958ccb4f3a48fa8cf/original/2nl0uuik.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle will play Roadburn Festival 2022. </p>
<p>“Honesty and vulnerability have run through much of Emma’s output over the years, but on Engine of Hell the rawness and repressed pain that accompanies her lived experiences bubble to the surface. Accompanied by piano as well as her more familiar guitar, this new material strikes out in new directions yet still sounds unequivocally like her. With the beauty of imperfection laid bare, a new clarity in her voice shines through - more potent than ever. Engine of Hell is the sound of one woman claiming dominion over her past and leading it with authority into her future. Our firm belief that Emma can command an enraptured main stage audience is unwavering. It was only a matter of time before her star ascended in such a way; with an abundance of courage and a commitment to following her true creative path we have little choice but to follow wherever she decides to lead us.” </p>
<p><strong>ERR TOUR DATES 2021/2022 </strong></p>
<p><strong>Europe 2022 </strong></p>
<p>Feb 05 Dampierre FR - Le Temple Dampierre Les Bois SOLD-OUT</p>
<p>Feb 06 Ghent BE - Minard Schouwburg </p>
<p>Feb 08 London UK - Clapham Grand </p>
<p>Feb 09 Manchester UK - Stoller Hall </p>
<p>Feb 10 Bath UK - Komedia </p>
<p>Feb 12 Bruxelles BE - Botanique Museum SOLD-OUT</p>
<p>Feb 13 Paris FR - Théatre L’Européen </p>
<p>Feb 14 Lille FR - Église Saint Étienne </p>
<p>Feb 15 Rennes FR - Antipode </p>
<p>Feb 18 Nijmegen NL - Stevenskerk </p>
<p>Feb 19 Bochum DE - Christuskirche </p>
<p>Feb 20 Hamburg DE - Nachtasyl </p>
<p>Feb 22 Berlin DE - Heimathafen </p>
<p>Feb 23 Leipzig DE - UT Connewitz </p>
<p>Feb 25 Porto PT Casa Da Música SOLD-OUT </p>
<p>Feb 26 Lisboa PT - Culturgest </p>
<p>Apr 21-24 Tilburg NL - Roadburn Festival </p>
<p>Aug 17 Bristol UK - ArcTanGent </p>
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<p><strong>AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND </strong></p>
<p>Jun 09 Wellington, NZ </p>
<p>Jun 10 Auckland, NZ </p>
<p>Jun 12 Brisbane, AU </p>
<p>Jun 13 Adelaide, AU </p>
<p>Jun 14 Perth, AU </p>
<p>Jun 17 Sydney, AU </p>
<p>Jun 18 Melbourne, AU (SOLD-OUT) </p>
<p>Jun 19 Melbourne, AU </p>
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<p><strong>USA 2022 </strong></p>
<p>July 22-24 Moran, WY “Fire in the Mountains Fest”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68204892021-11-24T13:13:31-08:002021-11-24T13:13:31-08:00100 WORDS OR LESS PODCAST: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/21539a85150cece35751974d29c0f5a034cea3ef/original/fe-incrvuaebmof.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>New episode of 100 Words Or Less - The Podcast with Emma Ruth Rundle:</p>
<p>Listen here: <a contents="https://t.co/sqJNoeF9Qa" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://t.co/sqJNoeF9Qa">https://t.co/sqJNoeF9Qa</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68204882021-11-24T13:11:38-08:002021-11-24T13:11:38-08:00BEYOND THE BOYS’ CLUB: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d46c4369134368838d12ba12b14392df0d291308/original/err-emmawondra.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />For Heavy Consequence‘s latest edition of “Beyond the Boys’ Club,” Emma spoke about the new album, how taking ballet has made her feel more in touch with herself, her experience as a woman in the heavy music world, and much more.</p>
<p>Full interview here: <a contents="https://consequence.net/2021/11/beyond-the-boys-club-emma-ruth-rundle/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequence.net/2021/11/beyond-the-boys-club-emma-ruth-rundle/">https://consequence.net/2021/11/beyond-the-boys-club-emma-ruth-rundle/</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68101352021-11-15T07:50:46-08:002021-11-15T07:50:46-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE SHARES NEW VIDEO “THE COMPANY”<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OPZNE0_gnH0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
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<p>Emma Ruth Rundle’s lauded new album Engine of Hell is stark, intimate, and unflinching. For anyone that’s endured trauma and grief, there’s a beautiful solace in hearing Rundle articulate and humanize that particular type of pain not only with her words, but with her particular mysterious language of melody and timbre. The album captures a moment where a masterful songwriter strips away all flourishes and embellishments in order to make every note and word hit with maximum impact, leaving little to hide behind. </p>
<p>Just off the heels of its release, Rundle has unveiled another stunning and self-directed video for Engine of Hell’s “The Company”. The visual was made on the Isle of Skye. Rundle reveals, “I dreamed this visual poem about innocence of the spirit, sadness and the dark deceiver I spend my life trying to run from. Or is it a friendly entity? What does it mean? Upon waking - I acquired the equipment and made a plan to film it. I enlisted the help of my dear friend, Blake Armstrong, who helped shoot and plays part in the video as well. It was edited by Brandon Kahn. Written, directed and shot by me.”</p>
<p>Engine of Hell is available now on Sargent House: <a contents="https://ffm.to/err-eoh" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ffm.to/err-eoh">https://ffm.to/err-eoh</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68021862021-11-08T12:55:10-08:002021-11-08T12:55:10-08:00R/INDIEHEADS AMA WITH EMMA RUTH RUNDLE NOVEMBER 9TH<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/3ad58291015f46f855bb6d1d3bacbba6083d1ec9/original/emma-ruth-rundle-ama-long.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br><a contents="r/indieheads" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/" target="_blank">r/indieheads</a> will be hosting an AMA with Emma Ruth Rundle over on Reddit tomorrow November 9th at noon PT/3pm ET. <br><br>Follow the link <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to participate live tomorrow</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/68017712021-11-08T07:20:04-08:002021-11-08T07:20:04-08:00TO HELL AND BACK: HOW EMMA RUTH RUNDLE SAVED HERSELF<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/bd005784a7adcc94fd47122883d8212e490d7fe5/original/emma-ruth-rundle-2021-november-header-credit-emma-wondra.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />When Emma Ruth Rundle started work on her stunning new album Engine Of Hell, she began to uncover a darkness within. Now on the other side of a powerful emotional transformation, its release finds the singer-songwriter with a newfound sense of freedom.</p>
<p><a contents="Full interview via&nbsp;kerrang.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/hell-and-back-how-emma-ruth-rundle-saved-herself/">Full interview via kerrang.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/69489692021-11-08T07:00:00-08:002022-04-15T07:32:10-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Explains Her Journey Creating Engine of Hell, Her New Found Love for Dancing and How Her Life Has Transformed For the Best<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a5a90996f51b9da6421cb931d6c3c0fbf1493335/original/screenshot-2022-04-15-at-16-31-05.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/087091d8a21981c24eb1701b95e59ecda3602ddd/original/screenshot-2022-04-15-at-16-31-16.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_l justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a4152f0842cb407c0945761756d181eaa1aa3a8d/original/screenshot-2022-04-15-at-16-29-17.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />mxdwn sat down with Emma Ruth Rundle to talk about her upcoming album, Engine of Hell. Emma Ruth Rundle’s new album, Engine of Hell, will be released on November 5th, 2021. This album is a portal into Rundle’s journey as a person with snippets of what she has overcome. Listening to this album will make people feel as though they are sitting next to her while she plays the piano and bares her soul. Engine of Hell is composed of poetic lyrics accompanied by stripped-down musical arrangements that let every word not only be heard but felt.</p>
<p><strong><a contents="Full interview via music.mxdwn.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://music.mxdwn.com/2021/11/06/features/mxdwn-interview-emma-ruth-rundle-explains-her-journey-creating-engine-of-hell-her-new-found-love-for-dancing-and-how-her-life-has-transformed-for-the-best/">Full interview via music.mxdwn.com</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67982462021-11-04T07:36:55-07:002021-11-04T07:36:55-07:00INTERVIEW: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE OPENS UP ABOUT STRIPPED DOWN NEW RECORD<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/055ea656489a872f90753a29df37ea1b94f7cd1b/original/kcmgeyfz.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Guitarist and singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle has composed a wide range of diverse music with rich guitar textures and a powerful voice. Some Heavy Ocean is a rock record with elements of folk. </p>
<p>On Dark Horses features hard rock with calming, atmospheric sounds. Emma Ruth Rundle also collaborated with Thou on May Our Chambers Be Full. Her newest album, Engine of Hell, is a stripped-down record. On Engine of Hell, out through Sargent House, Rundle focuses on the piano and vocals to create powerful immediacy. </p>
<p><em><a contents="Full interview via newnoisemagazine.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://newnoisemagazine.com/interview-emma-ruth-rundle-opens-up-about-stripped-down-new-record/">Full interview via newnoisemagazine.com</a></em></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67970462021-11-03T06:11:34-07:002021-11-03T06:11:34-07:00A 10/10 REVIEW FOR EMMA RUTH RUNDLE'S 'ENGINE OF HELL'<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7c645ddba51a640e9c2cb9e854758360d10f7aac/original/errengineofhellcoverart.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Those familiar with Emma Ruth Rundle’s catalogue of work will know it is shrouded in melancholy and darkness. Whether it’s previous solo pieces such as Marked For Death, or gothic collaborations with Thouand Chelsea Wolfe, Rundle’s lyricism and emotional grappling accompanied by roaring electronics guitars and noisy drums made for stark listening. With Engine of Hell’s debut single, “Return“, it quickly became evident that Rundle’s latest album is going to be a departure from her previous sound. The band arrangement has been traded in for the lone piano or guitar, the pounding of drum toms replaced with gentle B9 chords. The minimalism leaves each note and lyric across the album to be heard.</p>
<p><em><a contents="Read the full&nbsp;10/10 review via&nbsp;boolintunes.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://boolintunes.com/2021/10/31/album-review-emma-ruth-rundle-engine-of-hell/">Read the full 10/10 review via boolintunes.com</a></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67862352021-10-25T09:57:23-07:002021-10-25T09:57:23-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNLE FEATURED IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF DECIBEL MAGAZINE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/5e965f197d5feb8d307a07eaa76fd550ea45db8e/original/err-decibel.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle talked with Decibel Magazine about the recording process of her new album 'Engine of Hell'. Full interview in the December issue: <a contents="http://tinyurl.com/decibel206" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://tinyurl.com/decibel206">http://tinyurl.com/decibel206</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67752342021-10-13T17:37:06-07:002021-10-13T17:37:06-07:00"EMMA RUTH RUNDLE'S RETURN TO HELL" STEREOGUM FEATURE <p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2163380/emma-ruth-rundle-engine-of-hell-interview/music/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/37421123898410fa06606e801815d7ad04f0fe7f/original/screen-shot-2021-10-13-at-5-18-41-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2163380/emma-ruth-rundle-engine-of-hell-interview/music/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/e54c83008442b47f8fb02bb3087492271d8acd14/original/screen-shot-2021-10-13-at-5-18-51-pm.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2163380/emma-ruth-rundle-engine-of-hell-interview/music/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/71ddd81b08d236ac1ff11c2f9645665a4f9ebbae/original/img-4061-1633987410-1000x667.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> was interviewed by Stereogum's <a contents="Emma Madden" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/author/emmamadden/" target="_blank">Emma Madden</a> to talk about her new album, making the transition from guitar-heavy music to piano balladry, and how childhood experiences has developed her songwriting.</p>
<p>Read the full interview <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2163380/emma-ruth-rundle-engine-of-hell-interview/music/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67745432021-10-13T06:07:55-07:002021-10-13T06:07:55-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “BLOOMS OF OBLIVION”<p> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pn12FvaaRMI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle’s latest single “Blooms of Oblivion” intimately reflects on an experience that was too big for her as a child -- “Down at the methadone clinic we waited / hoping to take home your cure / The curdling cowards, the crackle of china / you say that it’s making you pure” she sings. For anyone that’s endured trauma and grief, there’s a beautiful solace in hearing Rundle articulate and humanise that particular type of pain not only with her words, but with her unique mysterious language of melody and timbre. Her forthcoming album, Engine of Hellcaptures a moment where a masterful songwriter strips away all flourishes and embellishments in order to make every note and word hit with maximum impact, leaving little to hide behind. </p>
<p>Today’s soft spoken guitar ballad “Blooms of Oblivion” comes alongside a vivid and compelling new video which she co-directed with John Bradburn. She explains, “In the video I use an oversized coat to represent an oversized and burdening experience for the little girl. The feeling of being free falling in chaos. Having no control over your circumstances. The song and video describe the feelings I had as a little girl and how that’s shaped who I have become - negotiating with my past and waking to the woman I strive to become through self-love, self parenting and forgiveness and the transformation that it can bring.”</p>
<p><a contents="Engine of Hell&nbsp;sees its release on November 5th, 2021 via Sargent House:&nbsp;https://ffm.to/err-eoh" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ffm.to/err-eoh">Engine of Hell sees its release on November 5th, 2021 via Sargent House: https://ffm.to/err-eoh</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67745422021-10-13T06:04:54-07:002021-10-13T06:04:54-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE EU/UK TOUR 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8d2fcf8a77522fbfd239c08e41be6841cb1e8a3b/original/1-ig-err-eu-tour-2022.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle will be back to Europe and UK in 2022. Tickets are on sale now: <a contents="emmaruthrundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
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<p><strong>EU/UK TOUR 2022:</strong></p>
<p>05/02 Dampierre FR - Le Temple Dampierre Les Bois </p>
<p>06/02 Ghent BE - Minard Schouwburg </p>
<p>08/02 London UK - Clapham Grand </p>
<p>09/02 Manchester UK - Stoller Hall </p>
<p>10/02 Bath UK - Komedia </p>
<p>12/02 Bruxelles BE - Botanique Museum </p>
<p>13/02 Paris FR - Théatre L’Européen </p>
<p>14/02 Lille FR - Église Saint Étienne </p>
<p>15/02 Rennes FR - Antipode </p>
<p>18/02 Nijmegen NL - Stevenskerk </p>
<p>19/02 Bochum DE - Christuskirche </p>
<p>20/02 Hamburg DE - Nachtasyl </p>
<p>22/02 Berlin DE - Heimathafen </p>
<p>23/02 Leipzig DE - UT Connewitz </p>
<p>25/02 Porto PT Casa Da Música </p>
<p>26/02 Lisboa PT - Culturgest </p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67733642021-10-12T05:39:17-07:002023-12-10T08:58:02-08:00INTERVIEW: IN CONVERSATION WITH EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/055ea656489a872f90753a29df37ea1b94f7cd1b/original/kcmgeyfz.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>The past year has delivered some truly incredible works of art, with a potent mix of uncertainty, strife and isolation combining to bring out some of the most introspective and daring albums of the new millennium, but few can truly compare with the naked honesty of Engine Of Hell, the new full-length from singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle. It’s a genuinely uncomfortable listen, eight songs of soul-searching and outpourings of unfiltered despair, so it was with some trepidation that David Bowes caught up with Rundle to discuss her year, her voice and her craft.</p>
<p><strong><em><a contents="Full interview via&nbsp;echoesanddust.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://echoesanddust.com/2021/10/in-conversation-with-emma-ruth-rundle/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postfity&utm_content=postfity871f3">Full interview via echoesanddust.com</a></em></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67726822021-10-11T12:41:25-07:002021-10-11T12:41:25-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE TO PLAY FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS FESTIVAL 2022<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fitmfest.com" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8178b48238b128a23fe7f0358bb789c8513262ac/original/fire-in-the-mountains-2022-final-lineup-additions-ghostcultmag.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br>Emma Ruth Rundle was just announced to perform a solo piano performance at <a contents="Fire in the Mountains" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fitmfest.com" target="_blank">Fire in the Mountains</a> 2022 in Jackson Hole, WY. The festival, which is set on a historic dude ranch nestled in the Grand Tetons, will also feature Enslaved, Wolves in the Throne Room, and many others. <br><br>Tickets and information can be found on the festival's <a contents="OFFICIAL WEBSITE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://fitmfest.com" target="_blank">OFFICIAL WEBSITE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67654172021-10-04T03:26:56-07:002021-10-04T03:26:56-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ON THE COVER OF NEW NOISE N.59<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/fc86170f20d95ab790b4bacb3efa809dc737ab4d/original/newnoise59-err-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle is the cover story of New Noise n.59.<br><br>All the info: <a contents="https://www.noisemag.net/new-noise-59-en-kiosque-le-20-octobre/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.noisemag.net/new-noise-59-en-kiosque-le-20-octobre/">https://www.noisemag.net/new-noise-59-en-kiosque-le-20-octobre/</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67654222021-09-23T03:00:00-07:002021-10-04T03:30:32-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE'S ART AS PART OF COURTNEY LOVE'S CELEBRATION OF THE HOLE ALBUM PRETTY ON THE INSIDE IN LONDON<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8cb61716c5307dcecc977e53c04f2d725512bb97/original/courtney-love-pretty-on-the-inside-30-years-header.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Courtney Love and London’s Parliament Tattoo have announced details of a special 30th anniversary celebration of Hole’s Pretty On The Inside. </p>
<p>The event – which takes place on October 2 and 3 – will host an art exhibition, tattooing, live music, DJs and more TBA in honour of Hole’s debut. It is set to “capture the album’s raw and intense energy through a visual medium, featuring original pieces of work by an eclectic group of artists from many disciplines and backgrounds” including Emma Ruth Rundle, Bella Kidman-Cruise, Holly Amber, Mercedes Helnwein, Daisy Parris and Sade English (all pieces will then be auctioned off for charity). Plus, Laura-Mary Carter of Blood Red Shoes, Hands Off Gretel and Los Bitchos will be performing acoustic sets. </p>
<p>“Pretty On The Inside was a battle cry for a generation of women who didn’t always identify with their assigned role to be sweet and dutiful,” says Parliament Tattoo owner Nicola Mary Wyatt. “Tattooing has long been associated with rebellion and appealed to those who reject society’s norms, so partnering up to celebrate this iconic album felt absolute. It’s an honour to celebrate this iconic moment with Courtney Love, who inspired so many to live authentically.”<br><br><a contents="Full article via Kerrang.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/courtney-love-to-celebrate-pretty-on-the-inside-30th-anniversary-with-charity-art-exhibition/">Full article via Kerrang.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67410482021-09-09T06:25:29-07:002021-09-09T06:25:29-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ENGINE OF HELL COMING NOVEMBER 5 ON SARGENT HOUSE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/055ea656489a872f90753a29df37ea1b94f7cd1b/original/kcmgeyfz.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle’s forthcoming Engine of Hell is stark, intimate, and unflinching. For anyone that’s endured trauma and grief, there’s a beautiful solace in hearing Rundle articulate and humanize that particular type of pain not only with her words, but with her particular mysterious language of melody and timbre. The album captures a moment where a masterful songwriter strips away all flourishes and embellishments in order to make every note and word hit with maximum impact, leaving little to hide behind. The first single “Return” is available today via Sargent House and comes accompanied with a striking and introspective video directed by Rundle herself.</p>
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<p>'Engine of Hell' sees its release November 5, 2021 on Sargent House.</p>
<p><strong><em>Listen / Watch / Pre-order: <a contents="https://ffm.to/err-eoh" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ffm.to/err-eoh">https://ffm.to/err-eoh</a></em></strong></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7c645ddba51a640e9c2cb9e854758360d10f7aac/original/errengineofhellcoverart.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/67307942021-08-30T04:09:00-07:002021-08-30T04:09:00-07:00SOME HEAVY OCEAN VINYL REPRESS<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/bc9ad6c9997370fb36fd048a7a049536f1a79471/original/239492068-4332615563525718-2377537224100764423-n.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />A new vinyl repress of Emma Ruth Rundle's debut album 'Some Heavy Ocean' is now available for pre-orders at Hello Merch and Evil Greed.<br><br><a contents="US:&nbsp;https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="US:%C2%A0https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle">US: https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle</a></p>
<p><a contents="EU/UK: smarturl.it/EGerr" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://evilgreed.net/collections/emma-ruth-rundle">EU/UK: smarturl.it/EGerr</a></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66601812021-06-15T09:47:58-07:002021-06-15T09:47:58-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle: My Naked-at-School Nightmare Is Showing up with No Effects // Premiere Guitar<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c3d319522715a7bb51c502dd89793c7bdcee8554/original/thumbnail-emmaruthrundlebyblakearmstrong.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />It's virtually impossible to interview anyone nowadays and not have the pandemic come up. The only difference in the conversations is the degree to which it has affected the subject's life. Last March, Emma Ruth Rundle was touring solo—as in, sans backing band—in support of her 2018 release On Dark Horses, when the severity of the pandemic hit. Her last live show was on March 10, at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles.</p>
<p><em>Full interview via <a contents="premiereguitar.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/emma-ruth-rundle-my-naked-at-school-nightmare-is-showing-up-with-no-effects">premiereguitar.com</a></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66169832021-05-03T16:10:00-07:002021-05-03T16:20:01-07:00CHELSEA WOLFE & EMMA RUTH RUNDLE AU/NZ TOUR 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/fe3cba1a32e5b5d316b85d6c94d88b781aa6f3df/original/cw-err-insta-portrait-novenues-2022.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />We're happy to announce the new shows for Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle Australian & New Zealand tour 2022.</p>
<p>JUN 09 Wellington, NZ <br>JUN 10 Auckland, NZ <br>JUN 12 Brisbane, AU<br>JUN 13 Adelaide, AU <br>JUN 14 Perth, AU<br>JUN 17 Sydney, AU <br>JUN 18 Melbourne, AU <br>JUN 19 Melbourne, AU </p>
<p>Tickets that have been previously purchased will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Visit <a contents="birdsrobe.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://birdsrobe.com">birdsrobe.com</a> for more info.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/66092042021-04-20T06:22:32-07:002021-04-20T06:22:32-07:00ROADBURN DEEP DIVES: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/f798caa96c15442d4fc32aabed8cded824d0381c/original/img-0911.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Redefining heaviness. If you’ve had any sort of interaction with the world of Roadburn in the past few years, you have surely come across this notion at some point. Just like everything else in art, culture and human innovation, heavy music is changing, evolving, becoming richer and gaining new meanings. As a festival that strives to give a home to groundbreaking and unusual artists – the “freaks in the corner”, as Steve Von Till from Neurosis so wonderfully puts it – it’s almost a mission statement for Roadburn to not only keep up with what it means for music to be “heavy” but actively contribute to that expansion and that discovery of new territories. And if that might seem like a complex goal, or even a rather vague ethos to follow, sometimes everything comes together and is crystallised in a single moment; something you can point at and just go, “yeah, that’s it”. </p>
<p>That’s precisely what happened when one lonely – and, as it turns out, rather terrified – woman stepped up to the Green Room stage on the last day of Roadburn 2017. Emma Ruth Rundle didn’t know it at the time, but she was about to make Roadburn history. </p>
<p>— José Carlos Santos <br>— Paul Verhagen (Pics) </p>
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<p>“It was such a turning point for the festival,” says Becky Laverty, one of the main faces of Roadburn, as the festival’s Press & Communications manager, who was instrumental in getting Emma to perform this show of shows. “It helped us to open up some doors and explore what heaviness meant. That show summed up really well that ethos of redefining heaviness. That one woman, with no accompaniment, was able to create this unique atmosphere, so dense and overwhelming. It was absolutely a heavy performance, but not necessarily the kind of thing that people associate with heavy music. It immediately became one of the shows that we’ve referenced the most when booking shows. What is heaviness, and in what ways can you define it? That’s a question we ask ourselves all the time, and this show is an important part of the reply to that.” </p>
<p>For all the show’s impact on Roadburn and on Emma herself – we’ll get to that in a minute – it’s funny to realise, when talking to the parties involved, how different it all could have been, if not for a few random details that, with seemingly cosmic will, worked together to create the conditions for that powerful performance. Like, for example, why she stepped up to the stage all alone. </p>
<p>“Before Roadburn, I was on a really long tour, which started with Deafheaven in the United States, and I basically never got out of the van,” Emma says. “I kept going with Jaye Jayle, who were touring. When I got the Roadburn offer, I decided to book a European tour around it as a lot of American bands do, to make it more affordable. Because I couldn’t afford to take my own band, the idea was to use Jaye Jayle as my backing band, and have them open the shows during the tour – that would give them the opportunity to go to Europe too.” </p>
<p>When things didn’t work out with Jaye Jayles‘ drummer, Emma brought in the drummer from her own US-based backing band, and the group only had a few days to rehearse for the tour. Then they all went to Europe, without ever having played a show together. </p>
<p>“We had a day, as a long soundcheck, before a show somewhere, to play as a band. That was it. I’m saying this, and I realise that I would never do any of this now, when I look back on it,” she laughs. “We made it through that night’s show. But was it good? I don’t know! But it didn’t feel right to me. The whole purpose of this trip was to be at Roadburn, so I reached out to Walter and Becky asking them if a solo show was a possibility they could consider. </p>
<p>“If I had the opportunity to present it as a band, and to represent well the album I had made, which was the reason why I was invited, I would have chosen to do that. But I felt that it wasn’t good, it wasn’t presentable, and the last thing I wanted to do was to be humiliated at Roadburn. I was finally going there, it was such an honour to be there as an artist, at that magical place… So I eventually made the choice at the last minute to do it alone. </p>
<p>“I hadn’t played a solo show for some time because I had been touring with my US band,” Emma continues. “I hadn’t played in that format since I did solo opening slots for other bands, with reimagined versions of what the albums were, but at least that’s something I did do for a long time. I felt I had enough experience and I felt strong enough to do it like that again.” </p>
<p>To add to this sense of a-woman-against-the-world loneliness, another unfortunate event unfolded: “This was the same year that Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman and True Widow played,” Becky recalls. “There is actually a photo with Chelsea, Nicole, Kristina and Caro from Oathbreaker – this group of great women who played Roadburn, and Emma wasn’t in it because she was only there on the Sunday. I remember a conversation with her when she told me she was really looking forward to coming here and seeing all these women who were playing that year and with whom she’s friends with, and none of them were there anymore when she arrived and she was all on her own!” </p>
<p>But Emma never backed down. She was prepared. Scared, but prepared. “I knew that it was going to be terrifying,” she says. “All of the emotions leading up to it, I would describe them as terror and fear. You know that nightmare where people are standing naked in front of their class or something? That was what this whole Roadburn thing was like to me. I hadn’t performed in front of metal audiences in a long time either, but I do have a lot of experience with people heckling, talking to each other, not listening, even dumping beer on my stuff. I was ready for all that. I was ready to go into battle. I wanted to have this accomplishment of performing no matter what. I had this idea that if I had a band, people would have more respect for it and listen. And if they didn’t, at least we’d be louder than them.” </p>
<p>Fortunately Roadburners came through and proved themselves up to the situation. The audience in the Green Room on that magical evening was in itself a sanctuary, it lifted rather than brought down the brave performer singing her heart out to them. </p>
<p>“The Green Room was absolutely crammed!” Becky recalls, still in some awe of the atmosphere that was built in there. “Emma looked a bit nervous when she first came out, but then she totally owned the stage. It was such a powerful performance. Although I believe it would also have been incredible if she had played with a full band, it was really a stark performance, which felt right because that album, Marked For Death, is quite stark as well. She looked so strong and powerful, she dominated in such a calm and quiet way. Afterwards I spoke to her backstage and I told her this, and she said it had been one of the shows where she’d been the most terrified. But it didn’t come through at all.” </p>
<p>It did not, but Emma was indeed: “I’m super disorganised, and Becky and everyone from the staff really helped me. I was like a little bird and they picked me up and put me back up on my nest. Once I got to the Green Room – and I’m reliving the fear right now! – as soon as the show started, I realised people were silent,” Emma says quietly, her own voice hushing as if still in acknowledgement of the incredible response she got on the occasion. “It was a very powerful and moving experience for me. I think to this day it still remains my favourite show that I’ve ever played. </p>
<p>“I’ve never felt the respect that I felt from the Roadburn community and the audience, it really blew my mind,” Emma says. “It changed my life, honestly. I felt that was a pivotal moment in my career as a performer. Nothing has ever been the same for me since that moment. It was the first time that I felt… maybe this isn’t placed in the right way, because people should get their sense of self-worth from other places, but at Roadburn I felt respect as a musician for the first time in a way that I had never felt before in my life: I felt like I had a place. </p>
<p>“It gave me a strength that I’ve taken with me forever since then. That I have the right to do what I’m doing, that I have a place to have a voice, that I shouldn’t feel ashamed for myself, for what I’m saying and what I’m singing.” </p>
<p>All of this somehow makes missing Emma’s curation-that-never-was in 2020 even more heartbreaking, but there are also good things to take away from that. “It’s such a shame her curation never came to fruition,” Beckylaments. “But I do feel that our relationship with her is not over and there is much more to come. That was just the beginning. It’s also to do with how heavy music has evolved. I don’t think Emma would be covered in the likes of Metal Hammer ten or fifteen years ago, for example, and for that matter nor do I necessarily think she would have made much sense at Roadburn then, even. The boundaries of heavy music are shifting, and she is a prime example of how they are evolving.” </p>
<p>Emma herself says of the pandemic-interrupted Roadburn 2020: “It’s sad. It’s crushing. We all did the work, it was there. It would have been so cool. It was such an honour, and such a highlight of my career as a musician, working with Walter and with Becky and everyone involved, making the decisions, talking to the bands, getting to know some of them, getting a feel for this amazing community and how it was all coming together in this moment.” But she also comes away with the positives and with the hope that doesn’t fade: “I don’t feel like everything was lost for me though, I still took away an amazing experience. I do feel horrible for everyone who didn’t get to see the shows, I’m sad that I didn’t get to see the shows! And for all the bands that didn’t make it there, too. But this is what it is now. We’re still here, we didn’t lose our lives and a lot of people did, that’s how I have to look at it. I really look forward to when I can get back to Tilburg and to Roadburn again.” </p>
<p>We’re all counting seconds over here, dear Emma.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65992312021-04-09T08:10:10-07:002021-04-09T08:10:10-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 'ON DARK HORSES' NEW EXCLUSIVE PINK VINYL COLOR<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/486e0b702e4bb74a3bfa3aa8bcc914437c43e4c0/original/emma-ruth-rundle-on-dark-horse-graphic.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" />A new exclusive pink vinyl version of Emma Ruth Rundle's album 'On Dark Horses' is now available for pre-orders in both her USA and EU/UK stores.</p>
<p>USA: <a contents="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle">https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle</a></p>
<p>EU/UK: <a contents="smarturl.it/EGerr" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/EGerr">smarturl.it/EGerr</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65845242021-03-25T16:00:00-07:002021-03-25T16:00:06-07:00POSTPONED TO 2022: CHELSEA WOLFE & EMMA RUTH RUNDLE AUSTRALIAN/ NEW ZEALAND TOUR<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/04c21bfff39550955120a3f6f252abb9f574ce08/original/cw-err-au-nz-2022.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Due to the ongoing pandemic and continued border restrictions for international travel, we have had to reschedule the upcoming <a contents="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-sZKQ7cvvAhWlA2MBHUQyDPoQFjAAegQIAhAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsargenthouse.com%2Fchelsea-wolfe&usg=AOvVaw3hKEF-7q8I6H3YizCkIMbe">Chelsea Wolfe</a> & <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiOoJiY7cvvAhXID2MBHTmvB_sQFjAAegQIAhAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsargenthouse.com%2Femma-ruth-rundle&usg=AOvVaw2z_nvzzHEQKwrBqSGSwjm5">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> Australian & New Zealand tour for 2022. </p>
<p>All tickets will be valid for the new dates and refunds will be available for your point of purchase for anyone who can't make the rescheduled dates. </p>
<p>For those concerned, we considered all options to make these shows happen, including the extensive hotel quarantine requirements for international performers & crew. However the costs of these would make the tour unviable for all involved. We also did not feel it was appropriate to seek special consideration for visas and travel when there are still so many people waiting for flights to return home to Australia and New Zealand. Added to this, the uncertainty over limited venue capacities, snap lockdowns and border closures (at least until the vaccination program is complete) is a major financial risk that we can't afford to take. </p>
<p>The good and great news is that both Chelsea and Emma are still committed to this tour and we have rescheduled all of the originally planned dates. By the time this tour rolls around it will have been a full 10 years since Chelsea's last Australian tour and still remains Emma's first ever visit to our shores. It's going to be worth the wait to be able to celebrate these legendary artists in happier times. </p>
<p>Thanks again for your understanding & patience. Full dates and details will be announced very soon.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65701522021-03-10T12:38:50-08:002021-03-10T12:39:38-08:00EVERYTHING EMMA RUTH RUNDLE SINGS SOUNDS LIKE A WARNING // THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/eb0a6bf7d8d55cd91a3fb5f0e399278201ee6ac4/original/screenshot-2021-03-10-at-21-31-20.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is featured in the The New York Times Magazine Music Issue. It is a great write up by Hanif Abdurraqib also featuring a track from her collaboration with Thou.</p>
<p><em>"Once, I played the Rundle album “Some Heavy Ocean” (2014) for a pal of mine who had never heard her before, and she turned to me halfway through and said, “I like that everything she sings sounds like a warning or a threat.” This is the best way I have to explain Rundle — not necessarily her voice itself, but her delivery of information, the way she sings the words “just another gray landscape to face” in a whisper that increases in both silence and intensity."</em></p>
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<p>Full story via <em><a contents="The New York Times&nbsp;Magazine Music." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/10/magazine/emma-ruth-rundle.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytmag">The New York Times Magazine</a>.</em></p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65557312021-02-22T13:26:58-08:002021-02-22T13:26:58-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou collaborative project Interview // Guitar World<p><span class="font_regular"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-thou-interview" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d4ecf417bee46cd379f71d849bcbbeddf974244e/original/guitar-world.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" /></a></span><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-thou-interview" target="_blank"><span class="font_regular"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/475edbd8d8b74b44a06cda4d57f81a049de13350/original/screen-shot-2021-02-22-at-1-20-34-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-thou-interview" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/16b0ec787bd41026f752562063dd987fb223a6a1/original/screen-shot-2021-02-22-at-1-19-55-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>With the release of their full length <em>May Our Chambers Be Full</em> late 2020, and EP <em>The Helm of Sorrow</em> in January this year, Thou and <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s ongoing project is accomplishing the most elusive of things in today’s musical landscape. </p>
<p>Formed out of a mutual love and respect for each other’s artistry, the project works how every collaboration should – with both parties forging their strengths to create something truly unique. In this case, we have alt singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle bringing the emotional weight to match the sonic brutality of sludge savants Thou.</p>
<p><a contents="Full feature via Guitar World" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.guitarworld.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-thou-interview" target="_blank">Full feature via Guitar World</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65456492021-02-10T08:00:00-08:002021-02-11T08:06:33-08:00CHELSEA WOLFE RELEASES NEW VIDEO “ANHEDONIA” HER LATEST SINGLE FT. EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/43af7a2e9b8009dea1988a454e1b0e2966d9104a/original/d8-u6ing.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><a contents="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/chelsea-wolfe">Chelsea Wolfe</a> has shared new video for her latest single, “Anhedonia” which features vocals and guitar by labelmate Emma Ruth Rundle. Wolfe joined efforts with stop motion editor and video producer Cressa Beer for a moving creation that reflects grief and loneliness, yet brings hope that with time and support, healing is possible. </p>
<p>Cressa explains, “The core idea of the video came from an artist and mutual friend that Chelsea and I both love - Jess Schnabel (Blood Milk Jewels) - who created a ‘grief moth’ inspired by real moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds. It’s an idea I’ve wanted to animate for a while. So, that became the backbone of the project: the lifecycle of a moth literally born from overwhelming sadness. From there, the video grew into a reflection of what I was experiencing during quarantine, as I found myself confronting my own grief and deeply rooted trauma. I suffer from PTSD that envelops me like a black void. I wanted to visually articulate how that feels, as well as feelings like disassociation and loneliness; the way that trauma can physically alter your body and mentally reshape the world around you. But still, the moth can fight its way out, can fly, can follow the light; just like the comfort in the final verse of the song, I wanted to still show that healing is possible.” </p>
<p>“Anhedonia” was mixed / produced by <a contents="Ben Chisholm&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/ben-chisholm">Ben Chisholm </a>and is available now across all digital retailers via Sargent House. </p>
<p>Watch/ Listen / Buy: <a contents="https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia">https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiFAh32VMMo" width="560"></iframe></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/65327462021-01-28T07:44:54-08:002021-01-28T08:33:06-08:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE FEATURE ON NEW CHELSEA WOLFE SINGLE “ANHEDONIA”<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d6a40de03d026fd98cdf6359b3ca017c460805da/original/c0f277f0-35d9-47dd-b3e6-9deb52e3f307.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-label="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-type="page" href="/chelsea-wolfe" style="" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>'s new gripping and reflective single “Anhedonia”, features guest vocals and guitar from labelmate Emma Ruth Rundle and was mixed by Ben Chisholm. “Anhedonia” is available across all digital retailers today via Sargent House. Listen and share <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia" style="" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p>Of the single, Wolfe reveals, “I wrote Anhedonia after I experienced it during summer of 2019, then tucked the song away and moved forward with my acoustic album and subsequent North American tour. When COVID-19 hit and stay-at-home orders began in 2020, my European tour was canceled and I had to fly home. Restless, I started listening through my archives of unfinished songs and little unused ideas. When I heard Anhedonia again, it hit me how strangely relevant the lyrics felt to current times. I’d been wanting to work on a song with Emma for a long time, so I recorded it and sent it her way. She graciously added her gorgeous vocals and lead guitar, and then Ben mixed it, adding his signature sound landscape as a fortress around the song. As I listened back to the final version, I was finally able to set free those emotions which I couldn’t feel back in 2019. I had worries around releasing the song, not wanting to romanticize the condition of anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure), but I also understood that it could possibly be cathartic for others who are struggling, as it was for me, to sing and dance my way out of a depression.” </p>
<p>Rundle adds, “I was moved to tears when she sent me Anhedonia, which made getting through the tracking very emotional and slow on my end. I love the way the guitars I tracked morphed in Ben's mix. The whole song swirls in a poignant eddy of sorrowful sound and still takes a hard swing at my heart hearing it now.” <br>...</p>
<p>To celebrate the release there’s a new t-shirt available for pre-order at <a contents="Hello Merch in US" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/chelsea-wolfe/products/rundle-wolfe-black-t-shirt-1" target="_blank">Hello Merch in US</a> / <a contents="Evil Greed in EU/UK" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://evilgreed.net/collections/chelsea-wolfe/products/emma-ruth-rundle-chelsea-wolfe-rundle-wolfe-t-shirt" style="" target="_blank">Evil Greed in EU/UK</a> (both stores ship worldwide)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64687602020-11-02T13:36:17-08:002020-11-02T13:36:17-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Interview // KERRANG!<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/what-it-means-to-be-heavy-with-thou-and-emma-ruth-rundle/" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6b7ef4dc82e81a8f05aa932ffb94ff453c089dec/original/kerrang.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/7e1ab5becf9627b2ee5c80a2815fe4aa0e4774e8/original/thouemmaruthrundle-paulverhagen-2019.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/554fffc9485988168012b4502c2410de0777b6f9/original/screen-shot-2020-11-02-at-1-32-47-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Last year in Tilburg, Netherlands, two of the underground’s most respected and creatively ambitious artists performed together. Inside a makeshift warehouse space, thousands gathered to witness the bespoke, never-before-heard music from Louisiana sludgecrushers Thou and LA ambient/dark-folkster Emma Ruth Rundle. Initially commissioned for Roadburn festival as part of Thou’s artist residency (which also included an incredible Misfits covers set in a skate park), the project has since evolved into a full-length album. </p>
<p>“When we got asked to do the residency and decided on a collaborative idea, we were going to do it anyway, but Roadburn was a way to focus us on actually doing it,” smiles Thou guitarist Andy Gibbs today, joining Kerrang! and co-conspirator Emma Ruth Rundle on Zoom. “For Thou, Roadburn’s purpose is to whip us into shape and do a project we actually say we’re going to do. When you have a goal to work toward, it makes it a lot easier to get everyone motivated to get shit done.” </p>
<p>“And you can’t let Walter down,” interjects Emma, chuckling, referring to Roadburn founder and organiser Walter Hoeijmakers. “Walter is our metal dad,” smirks Andy in response.</p>
<p><br><strong><em>Full interview via <a contents="KERRANG!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/what-it-means-to-be-heavy-with-thou-and-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">KERRANG!</a></em></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64199072020-08-28T18:59:46-07:002020-08-28T18:59:46-07:00Emma on "Vinyl" to Die For" // Revolver<p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/culture/vinyl-die-emma-ruth-rundle-shows-prized-jessika-kenney-eyvind-kang-lp?fbclid=IwAR2ngImCLcJsrcrsF_YXoF4pZ9YxRX7fc7_kxENS90w3FP-_Sykbihzu6UE" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/069e0150764985967da91d479e992da0e9d07289/original/revolver-logo.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a><br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="EIZOyiCajvg" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/EIZOyiCajvg/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EIZOyiCajvg?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="600" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p><strong><span class="font_large">VINYL TO DIE FOR: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE SHOWS OFF PRIZED JESSIKA KENNEY & EYVIND KANG LP</span></strong></p>
<p>"Many of our favorite heavy-music artists are also obsessive vinyl collectors. We've asked some of them to show us their most prized records, the variants they probably spent way too much money on and would run into a burning building to save: their "vinyl to die for." For her part, Emma Ruth Rundle — the solo artist also known for her work with <a contents="Red Sparowes" data-link-label="Red Sparowes" data-link-type="page" href="/red-sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a>, <a contents="Marriages" data-link-label="Marriages" data-link-type="page" href="/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> and Thou — is just starting to build her record collection, having mostly lived out of a suitcase until the last three years. One of the foundational pieces of her incipient collection is the Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang LP The Face of the Earth. Get an up-close look. </p>
<p>Rundle's new collaborative album with Thou, May Our Chambers Be Full, is due out October 30th and is available for pre-order from Sacred Bones. Shop for vinyl, including a selection of limited-edition Revolver-exclusive variants, via our <a contents="store" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://shop.revolvermag.com/collections/vinyl" target="_blank">store</a>."</p>
<p>[<a contents="via Revolver" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/premium-video/culture/vinyl-die-emma-ruth-rundle-shows-prized-jessika-kenney-eyvind-kang-lp?fbclid=IwAR2ngImCLcJsrcrsF_YXoF4pZ9YxRX7fc7_kxENS90w3FP-_Sykbihzu6UE" target="_blank">via Revolver</a>]</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64128932020-08-19T12:26:42-07:002020-08-19T12:26:42-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Collaborative Album // MAY OUR CHAMBERS BE FULL<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our-chambers-be-full?fbclid=IwAR3qfvVvo4vUoLsMqBN3EspwLtEOqp0Km51u1SW8MaGUF7US2lPtGAwy0ec" style="" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/b047f8aec24125aa823864f1103b5944b193dd3a/original/sba007-thouemma-lp-r0-1024x1024.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>The collaboration that <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" style="" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> did with <a contents="Thou" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thou.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Thou</a> grew into an album called MAY OUR CHAMBERS BE FULL. It will be released on 10//30/20 via Thou’s label Sacred Bones Records. <br>NOW STREAMING the first single, ANCESTRAL RECALL • Pre-order album / stream <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/may-our-chambers-be-full?fbclid=IwAR3qfvVvo4vUoLsMqBN3EspwLtEOqp0Km51u1SW8MaGUF7US2lPtGAwy0ec" style="" target="_blank">HERE</a><br>The art for this record is by Craig Mulcahy in collab with Thou</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/64048612020-08-07T16:28:25-07:002020-08-07T16:28:25-07:00ERR "Dead Set Eyes" (Demo) // Bandcamp Friday<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/dead-set-eyes-demo" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/4a2a02379698928312a61188f180af651e351052/original/117340844-2932048030238076-4775805784200876099-n.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a>Emma Ruth Rundle released a demo version of the track "Dead Set Eyes" off her 3rd studio album, <em>On Dark Horses, </em>as well as a Kate Bush cover she performed for Two Minutes to Late Night on her bandcamp for 'Bandcamp Friday'. 100% of the proceeds go to the artist.</p>
<p>Listen <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/dead-set-eyes-demo" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/63725462020-07-01T10:38:24-07:002020-07-01T10:38:24-07:00New Single "Staying Power"<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="nLb1CtsVjf0" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/nLb1CtsVjf0/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nLb1CtsVjf0?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="600" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has released a new single 'Staying Power', recorded during the sessions for her last album, "On Dark Horses". Stream / download here: <a contents="smarturl.it/ERR-SP" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://smarturl.it/ERR-SP" target="_blank">smarturl.it/ERR-SP</a></p>
<p>"There is very little mystery as to what this song is about. The lyrics are not metaphorical. It’s about being a touring musician and trying to survive, to conjure the self discipline to go on without sacrificing sensitivity. How we can become hardened as a result of constantly selling our feelings, how I didn’t want that to happen to me but could feel the callousness building. It’s also about the financial feast or famine and whether a little immediate monetary gain is worth the expenditure of youth. It’s about wondering how long I might be allowed to do this and the fear that it could end at any moment - with covid the song has some renewed relevance in that regard. It talks about what it means to endure and what the rewards and consequences of such persistence might be." – ERR</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/63553772020-06-16T12:26:14-07:002020-06-16T12:27:32-07:00EMMA RUTH RUNDLE: THE 10 SONGS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE // KERRANG!<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-the-10-songs-that-changed-my-life/?fbclid=IwAR17hDbbxYIKsKRGEQuHQp-2qYOper4UGYj8ad043ZRk9zbfZBj94dm64rY" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c9f097a607933b069fceb30b908f0cb547d39be6/original/3174-1504128269.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-the-10-songs-that-changed-my-life/?fbclid=IwAR17hDbbxYIKsKRGEQuHQp-2qYOper4UGYj8ad043ZRk9zbfZBj94dm64rY" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/31fc8389a62f86f933f17fdb064461069a7ab67c/original/emmaruthrundle-blake-armstrong-2019.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/eaaa3dbe408c835a4a62159608cb036f5dee710e/original/screen-shot-2020-06-16-at-12-21-27-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> looks back on a soundtrack to memories of psychedelic experience, unrequited love and a lifetime spent on long drives… </p>
<p>The first song that I remember hearing… </p>
<p><strong>DEPECHE MODE – FLEXIBLE (1985)</strong></p>
<p>“My mom was a massive Depeche Mode fan, and in the first apartment we lived in until I was about three or four, she listened to their cassettes constantly. I remember having an almost psychedelic experience one night, staring out the window and hearing this song as the lights were coming in through the glass. Of course this was so long ago I don’t know how much is fantasy or reality, but it’s one of my earliest memories. And I still love Depeche Mode.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Y4LLfpYbLEY" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y4LLfpYbLEY/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y4LLfpYbLEY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="600" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p><br><a contents="Full feature via KERRANG!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kerrang.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-the-10-songs-that-changed-my-life/?fbclid=IwAR17hDbbxYIKsKRGEQuHQp-2qYOper4UGYj8ad043ZRk9zbfZBj94dm64rY" target="_blank"><em>Full feature via KERRANG!</em></a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/63489042020-06-10T12:12:46-07:002020-06-10T12:12:46-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle "On Dark Horses" Original Album Art Collage Black Lives Matter Raffle<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c56d5da3992c3fd5aefa549047a7f453c01dd267/original/sh-errraffle1.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Sargent House will be holding a raffle to help contribute to various Black Lives Matter organizations and will be selling many exclusive items from various members of the Sargent House family.</p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle has contributed the original collage for her album "On Dark Horses" that ended up being used as the image on the inner sleeve instead. Framed & Signed. Enter the raffle <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/sargent-house-raffle/products/err-on-dark-horses">HERE</a>. Entries are unlimited and are all going to a great cause.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62921162020-04-23T12:30:42-07:002020-04-23T12:38:18-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle - Full session | Highway Holidays TV<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TXCjEKpwtRc" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/TXCjEKpwtRc/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TXCjEKpwtRc?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="360" width="600" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>During Emma Ruth Rundle's last visit to Europe in the Fall of 2019, our friends at Highway Holidays filmed the rehearsal from her last full band tour. Featuring <a contents="Jaye Jayle" data-link-label="Jaye Jayle" data-link-type="page" href="/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a>'s Evan Patterson on guitar and Todd Steven Cook on bass, and her drummer Dylan Nadon. See the live session of tracks "Darkhorse" & "Control" <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXCjEKpwtRc&fbclid=IwAR1C7a6uOKuP1xOaZOv3-_vvzoskHaIixot-fVPOIKyXG5pEE882U3eXOGg" target="_blank">HERE</a> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62837592020-04-15T18:23:56-07:002020-04-15T18:23:56-07:00Austalia/New Zealand Tour SUpporting Chelsea Wolfe Rescheduled for 2021<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://chelseawolfe.net" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d1b36e06cdc46278963b87c6ca93557755072a3b/original/cw-err-72-web-poster-2021-novenues.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-label="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-type="page" href="/chelsea-wolfe" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a> X <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle " data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle's</a> New Zealand & Australia tour has been rescheduled for June 2021. Tickets that have been previously purchased will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Tickets available now at <a contents="chelseawolfe.net" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a><br><br>JUN 04 Wellington, NZ @ San Fran<br>JUN 05 Auckland, NZ @ Galatos<br>JUN 07 Perth, AU @ Rosemount Hotel<br>JUN 08 Adelaide, AU @ The Gov<br>JUN 10 Brisbane, AU @ The Triffid<br>JUN 11 Sydney, AU @ Manning Bar<br>JUN 12 Melbourne, AU @ Max Watt's ( SOLD OUT )<br>JUN 13 Melbourne, AU @ Max Watt's</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/62265692020-02-24T20:17:35-08:002020-02-24T20:17:35-08:00N. American Solo Tour with Cult of Luna <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/ed8ca5100600846597a146535db6cd34c678dd87/original/img-6869.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Emma Ruth Rundle will be touring SOLO in N. America as direct support to Cult of Luna with Intronaut opening all shows except Mexico. TIckets are on sale now. </p>
<p>CULT OF LUNA, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE, INTRONAUT<br>FEB 25 Dallas, TX @ Trees <br>FEB 26 Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live <br>FEB 28 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade <br>FEB 29 Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage <br>MAR 01 New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater <br>MAR 02 Montreal, QC @ Corona <br>MAR 03 Toronto, ON @ Opera House <br>MAR 04 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues <br>MAR 05 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater <br>MAR 06 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall <br>MAR 07 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge <br>MAR 09 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's <br>MAR 10 Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre <br>MAR 11 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick <br>MAR 13 Mexico City, MX @ Auditorio Blackberry (no Intronaut) </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/59116802019-10-01T11:09:50-07:002019-10-01T11:09:50-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces Solo North American Tour 2020<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6310e7f2219e57c15656640771fe4a2a2aa004eb/original/emma.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></p>
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<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has announced solo N American tour dates with <a contents="Cult of Luna" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cultofluna.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3USLpc7CVNj2_z-zERCYzfpRauhaGnBOXRwBxBOzno4ilnlqZEU0DKlIY&h=AT2tWO7VfA-PcA1dTnkAVTrxb4V0hO5BLSUUgJgYvSFtFz1psAdX6RqQAkRZM9sUSN2yZn0nBx1c15VDDOeCtXoX-5D51845-LA5j_-7nLnasp52YgcGg_viWQH7SX9uHkEw1AscqFNkqgSAB8qu4OG7V7LWux2PjTXU5qB7e8jgTq7t44yH7nmOaK-x2XrE-lxpgnP2GRg8U2MtwvK7xd-wDDWBof86yEmRaXDYM5M3p2cjCLFXLwGHeanDTqLZ0Be481oR1_GsNq2WqD8TPvOMojcoSG0FfkUeJWrjzvfOgeVyYvjrlqyG0_qhI_67UsXa6RUQoVuLPldGY4ZTPcldGCg7Z9AjSU_nmnPHyIDbR2oHG6ZJmDBxHuJVhn9QnwpiWnuhVp-XYGtaMpy8S9VjDF0YeEWlVX27lfrbqdEoFVl6DPGiI_mtFsJzBbe9sk04Vh3Ba7uE1IugCyw9edO3CIQnXofGnQ4a-kN7F7O-HQtPXrYAp8mTxHob">Cult of Luna</a> & <a contents="Intronaut" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/Intronaut/" target="_blank">Intronaut</a> for Feb 2020. Tickets are on sale this Friday, Oct 4th <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p>Full tour itinerary: <br><br>Headlining Europe 2019 <br><br>Oct 01 Paris, FR @ Petit Bain ^ <br>Oct 02 Bruxelles, BE @ Botanique * SOLD OUT <br>Oct 03 Den Haag, NL @ Paard + <br>Oct 04 Brugge, BE @ Biekorf * <br>Oct 05 Bochum, DE @ Die Trompete * <br>Oct 07 Frankfurt, DE @ Nachtleben * <br>Oct 08 Münster, DE @ Gleis 22 * <br>Oct 09 Berlin, DE @ Zukunft Am Ostkreuz * <br>Oct 10 Augsburg, DE @ Neue Kantine * <br>Oct 12 Porto, PT @ Amplifest (solo) SOLD OUT <br>Oct 14 Vienna, AT @ Arena <br>Oct 15 Rijeka, CRO @ OKC Palach <br>Oct 16 Lubijana, SLO @ Gala Hala <br>Oct 17 Ravenna, IT @ Bronson % <br>Oct 18 Verona, IT @ Colorificio Kroen <br>Oct 19 Zurich, CH @ Bergmal Festival <br>Oct 20 Karlsruhe, DE @ Stadtmitte * <br><br>w/ <a contents="Sylvaine" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/sylvainemusic/" target="_blank">Sylvaine</a> ^ <br>w/ <a contents="FVNERALS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/Fvnerals/">FVNERALS</a> * <br>w/ <a contents="GOLD" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/thebandGOLD/" target="_blank">GOLD</a> + <br>w/ <a contents="Messa" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/MessaBand" target="_blank">Messa</a> % </p>
<p>North America (SOLO) 2020<br><br>w/ Cult of Luna & Intronaut <br><br>FEB 25 Dallas, TX @ Trees <br>FEB 26 Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live <br>FEB 28 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade <br>FEB 29 Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage <br>MAR 01 New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater <br>MAR 02 Montreal, QC @ Corona <br>MAR 03 Toronto, ON @ Opera House <br>MAR 04 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues <br>MAR 05 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater <br>MAR 06 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall <br>MAR 07 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge <br>MAR 09 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's <br>MAR 10 Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre * <br>MAR 11 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick <br>w/o Intronaut * </p>
<p>photo taken by Blake Armstrong</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/59104162019-09-30T10:56:42-07:002019-09-30T11:51:51-07:00"Marked For Death" Three Year Anniversary Edition Available For Pre-Order Now<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle/products/marked-for-death-vinyl" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/1a99c6c389f1dda8562411e4923f07485eccd6d2/original/screen-shot-2019-09-30-at-11-48-10-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>"Marked For Death" was released for the first time in 2016, and to celebrate <a contents="Sargent House" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/">Sargent House</a> has pressed a special Three Year Anniversary edition clear with silver splatter vinyl. The Anniversary edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide, and is available for pre-order now.</p>
<p>To coincide with this special edition, Sargent House has also re-released the "Marked For Death" t-shirt. </p>
<p>North American customers, pre-order <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">HERE</a><br>European customers, pre-order <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://evilgreed.net/collections/emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/59049162019-09-25T10:33:00-07:002019-09-25T12:36:52-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Debuts New Music Video For "You Don't Have To Cry"<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="GtMi0c7ka5s" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/GtMi0c7ka5s/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GtMi0c7ka5s?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> reveals music video for "You Don't Have To Cry", starring Blake Armstrong – watch it here:<a contents="https://youtu.be/GtMi0c7ka5s&nbsp;&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/GtMi0c7ka5s" target="_blank"> https://youtu.be/GtMi0c7ka5s </a></p>
<p>Her headline EU/UK tour starts now. This will be her last run with a full band for this album. Don’t miss these shows, all tickets at <a contents="EmmaRuthRundle.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://EmmaRuthRundle.com" target="_blank">EmmaRuthRundle.com</a> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/58796202019-09-03T16:41:27-07:002019-09-03T16:42:30-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle in conversation with black metal outfit Mizmor // Metal Hammer<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-in-conversation-with-mizmor" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/9cdde5eae9b8935488712ff9fffcde0209f27424/original/metal-hammer.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-in-conversation-with-mizmor" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/4ccc64aeac64dd3d882c8a0ed850c8f9ee06392c/original/screen-shot-2019-09-03-at-4-35-43-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-in-conversation-with-mizmor" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/3f41163c28138f7c29dd46450798bad0dad86be2/original/screen-shot-2019-09-03-at-4-36-44-pm.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="(via Metal Hammer)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-in-conversation-with-mizmor" target="_blank">(via Metal Hammer)</a><br><br><span class="font_large"><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> and A.L.N. – the man behind black metal act Mizmor – took a hike to discuss life, religion and art, while picking apart Mizmor's new album one lyric at a time</span></p>
<p>Darkwave, darksynth, deathgospel... whatever tag has been and could be placed upon the shoulders of sober songstress Emma Ruth Rundle one thing is for certain, us metalheads just can't get enough of her – and she can't get enough of metal either. </p>
<p>So being a self-proclaimed metalhead herself, she recently took a hike with friend, ALN – the brain behind Portland-based one-man black metal outfit, Mizmor – to discuss his new album, Cairn, religion, and more, and gave Metal Hammer exclusive access to their incredible conversation. </p>
<p>Stream Mizmor's fantastic new album Cairn (out via Gilead Media on Sept 6) in full on page three, and enjoy being privy to a deeply personal conversation between two incredible modern artists. </p><!-- more -->
<p><span class="font_large">Part 1 - A.L.N. on Cairn, religion, and life </span></p>
<p><strong>E.R.R.: What is Cairn about? </strong></p>
<p>A.L.N.: Cairn is about the absurdity of life, simply put. It took me a while to articulate my thoughts and get this idea unified and out of me because I don’t really seek to write music for the sake of writing music; I wait until there’s an aching in me and something brewing, rattling around that needs release. </p>
<p>And so that kinda started to happen but it took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to say because I’ve spent the past seven years talking about how I’ve lost my faith and I don’t really care to talk about that specifically anymore, like that’s kinda old news, so I definitely felt that I had something new to say; not entirely new like I’d gained faith or anything, something that is related to losing faith, but is more than that. So I was really struggling to figure out how to say what I wanted to say. </p>
<p>The last thing I released was called This Unabating Wakefulness and that is about insomnia; and everything I write usually has a personal, individual significance and also a larger lens, like mankind, sort of application. </p>
<p>So it was about insomnia but it was also about anxiety and it was also about just waking life - being alive and feeling like it’s lasting forever and like it’s so hard to be around. So there was already this idea that I was working on that is, ‘what is this being around? </p>
<p>What is this being alive that I’m choosing to do when there’s no ultimate purpose to it, as I’ve decided.’ So with Cairn I sought to solidify that. I read this book called “Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus and it took the words out of my mouth. I read it in a day or two. </p>
<p>I was practically in shock; he was saying everything that I felt. And that book is about absurdity. The idea is that the life we live is already an absurd premise: that mankind continually seeks meaning, that is the human condition, in a world that is inherently devoid of ultimate meaning, and that creates this cognitive dissonance that is completely absurd. Either one of those things on their own is not absurd but a world where both of those are the guiding laws in which all other things take place is completely absurd.</p>
<p><em>.. full article <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/emma-ruth-rundle-in-conversation-with-mizmor" target="_blank">here</a></em></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/58641812019-08-20T11:33:30-07:002019-08-20T11:33:30-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Curating Roadburn 2020 (The Gilded Cage)<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://roadburn.com/band/emma-ruth-rundle-curator/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d56e9c1c3744dbc6d2088ebb99a4bb1b6a947eea/original/emma-ruth-rundle-ig-post.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><br><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has been announced as curator for <a contents="Roadburn Festival 2020" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://roadburn.com/" target="_blank">Roadburn Festival 2020</a> in Tilburg, NL. Tickets will be on sale September 24. Stay tuned for more info.</p>
<p>"CURATOR: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE <br>Emma has left such a mark on the festival, and the wider musical landscape over the past few years; we’re honoured to invite her back to Roadburn as a curator – a new role for her, but one that she is more than ready for. Her expansive creativity and curious explorations have already led her towards collaborations – both live and on record. Her musical taste is broad and in keeping with Roadburn’s desire to explore the many facets of heavy music. </p>
<p>Read more about Emma‘s curation (The Gilded Cage) <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://roadburn.com/band/emma-ruth-rundle-curator/" target="_blank">HERE</a>."</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/58590472019-08-15T12:05:13-07:002019-08-15T12:05:13-07:00Death Gospel Interview Feature // Metal Hammer<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-death-gospel-took-over-the-metal-underground" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/258d6677c58fceec6d3c3b908d752c9790d11e44/original/1280px-metal-hammer-logo-svg.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-death-gospel-took-over-the-metal-underground" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/fe9207959a8626075bbfb49a3660c0a1acce3972/original/screen-shot-2019-08-15-at-11-32-50-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-death-gospel-took-over-the-metal-underground" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/be978014c020e49edbca82be6b944a8a6336755f/original/screen-shot-2019-08-15-at-11-56-10-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="(via Metal Hammer)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-death-gospel-took-over-the-metal-underground" target="_blank">(Full feature via Metal Hammer)</a></p>
<p>Over the past decade, an influx of singer-songwriters has been infiltrating the metal world and reinventing the idea of what constitutes heavy music. </p>
<p>Artists like <a contents="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-label="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-type="page" href="/chelsea-wolfe" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>, <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, A.A. Williams and Louise Lemón, not to mention Marissa Nadler, Anna von Hausswolff and Nicole Sabouné, are all embracing darkness in a raw, visceral way, pushing boundaries of genre and style. </p><!-- more -->
<p>Though none of them play metal, they have been embraced by metal’s fanbase, touring and collaborating with metal bands and playing festivals like Roadburn. </p>
<p>No stranger to Hammer since her official debut, The Grime And The Glow, in 2010, California-born artist Chelsea Wolfe has been at the forefront of this influx. </p>
<p>She grew up surrounded by country and folk, and while elements of these find their way into her transcendental and often eerie sounds, the influence of doom and goth are equally evident. </p>
<p>Her metal ties are strong: she’s supported A Perfect Circle, worked with the likes of Chino Moreno, Converge and Deafheaven, and her most recent album, 2017’s Hiss Spun, might be her heaviest yet. </p>
<p>“All these amazing, talented women are just blowing up their own boundaries and the boundaries society tries to place on them, making music that transcends genre, and creating a powerful energy in which someone drawn to the intensity of metal can find something to relate to,” Chelsea says. </p>
<p>“None of us necessarily love to be compared to the other,” she adds, “but it’s natural for journalists to group musicians together who might be on some kind of zeitgeist wavelength.” </p>
<p>While they express great respect and admiration for one another, Chelsea, A.A., Emma and Louise also feel frustration at being constantly compared as artists, particularly comparisons made about the actual sound of their music.</p>
<p>“I do recognise this trend, that there are women making music that isn’t metal who are being embraced by this world,” says Emma Ruth Rundle. </p>
<p>“But I don’t think in a music sense that we are similar at all. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to be lumped in with the same few people again and again. </p>
<p>"I would like my music to be more like 40 Watt Sun, or Patrick Walker’s [other band] Warning: that sort of very raw, emotional music.” </p>
<p>For Emma, though, the metal world is not unfamiliar. After growing up in a musical household in Los Angeles – “My parents were really into rock music – the first music I have a memory of is Depeche Mode” – she started out playing in post-rock bands like Red Sparowes and Marriages. </p>
<p>But it’s her solo work, the most recent of which is her gorgeously affecting, raw and dark fifth album On Dark Horses, released last year, that she is best known for. </p>
<p>“I would say I am a metalhead,” Emma says, adding that sludge band Thou will be coming over the next day to work on their upcoming collaboration. </p>
<p>Emma thinks such collaborations, plus her musical CV, are part of the reason the metal world has embraced her. </p>
<p>“Maybe people who were tuned into heavy music continue to follow my work after those bands,” she says. </p>
<p>“I think I’ve been treated very well by the world of heavy music; I feel at home in that world. I think heavy content music is able to live alongside heavy sonic music,” she adds. </p>
<p>“Carrying heavy lyrical feeling and emotion can hold its place alongside bands that have heavy riffs and 20 amps.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57910772019-06-13T17:06:49-07:002019-06-13T17:06:49-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Roadburn 2019 Collab Photos + Review // CVLT Nation <figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="80" data-orig-width="418"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation-captures-roadburn-2019-day-two/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/c637dc9a504f37cddc609e34b42cfc68/tumblr_inline_pt2anewT2o1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation-captures-roadburn-2019-day-two/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/8247f17c2c597653b782f5ba8fe5ab9a36b57f37/original/thou-emma-ruth-rundle-3-750x500.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a contents="(via CVLT Nation)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation-captures-roadburn-2019-day-two/" target="_blank">(via CVLT Nation)</a><br><br>ROADBURN FESTIVAL 11<sup>th</sup> – 14<sup>th</sup> April 2019 Tilburg, Netherlands<br>DAY 2 – FRIDAY</p>
<p><strong>Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle</strong><br>Another trek to the Koepelhal, this time for the artist in residence: Thou. Out of four distinctive sets they were to perform, a collaboration with <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> was the one I got to see. It was captivating watching it slowly unravel, the dichotomy between Emma Ruth’s and Brian’s voices, the simultaneous harshness and emotiveness of it all. Throw a cover of The Cranberries Hollywood in the mix and we all got ourselves a rather unexpected treat. Although, at this point, nothing about Thou should be surprising to anyone anymore.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57879122019-06-11T12:37:02-07:002019-06-11T12:56:07-07:00Show Review: Emma Ruth Rundle & Mono at the Masonic Lodge in Los Angeles<figure data-orig-height="91" data-orig-width="284"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://newnoisemagazine.com/show-review-mono-emma-ruth-rundle-masonic-lodge-los-angeles/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/303fb531588dc89ce08294e7ed7bf894/tumblr_inline_psy8pqKUE71rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c7247396fb4e4d16ca697de487c4058e8c9649c4/original/emma-ruth-rundle-14.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p></figure>
<p><i><a href="https://newnoisemagazine.com/show-review-mono-emma-ruth-rundle-masonic-lodge-los-angeles/">via New Noise</a></i></p>
<p>The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever has been hosting shows for the last few years now and it always brings in the eerie vibes, especially to a show like this. I got inside the venue and a wall of haze and very somber instrumental music greeted me.</p>
<p>As the room quickly filled up, the opening act comes on stage. Los Angeles native, <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> comes back to the city of angels. Playing her signature mix of ambient and folk with the hint of the dark and the heavy to the, at this time, packed Masonic Lodge. I’ve seen ERR 4 times now including once as Marriages, and she still gives me chills every time. Check out her last record <em>On Dark Horses</em> coz it is straight fire.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57584312019-05-17T12:43:17-07:002019-05-23T14:47:39-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces Headlining EU/UK Fall 2019 Tour<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d3912bf998b79415fb3f6dc649489c870cbacc7c/original/new-fixed-eu-admet11x17wdates.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has just announced her headlining EU/UK tour for this Fall, after US tour dates with MONO. All info and pre-sale links at <a contents="emmaruthrundle.com&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>EU tour w/ full band:<br>SEP 25 Dunkerque, FR @ 4 écluses <br>SEP 26 Bristol, UK @ Exchange <br>SEP 27 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club <br>SEP 28 Nottingham, UK @ Rock City Beta <br>SEP 29 London, UK @ The Dome <br>OCT 01 Paris, FR @ Petit Bain <br>OCT 02 Bruxelles, BE @ Botanique <br>OCT 03 Den Haag, NL @ Paard <br>OCT 04 Brugge, BE @ Biekorf <br>OCT 05 Bochum, DE @ Trompete <br>OCT 07 Frankfurt, DE @ Nachtleben <br>OCT 08 Münster, DE @ Gleis 22 <br>OCT 09 Berlin, DE @ Ostkreuz <br>OCT 10 Augsburg, DE @ Kantine Soho <br>OCT 12 Porto, PT @ Amplifest (solo) <br>OCT 14 Wien, AT @ Arena <br>OCT 15 Rijeka, HR @ OKC Palach <br>OCT 16 Lubijana, SI @ Gala Hala <br>OCT 17 Ravenna, IT @ Bronson <br>OCT 18 Verona, IT @ Colorificio Kroen <br>OCT 19 Zurich, CH @ Bergmal Festival <br>OCT 20 Karlsruhe, DE @ Stadtmitte </p>
<p>After:<br>NOV 08 Austin, TX @ Levitation</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57545712019-05-14T14:05:53-07:002019-05-14T14:06:37-07:00ERR at Pasadena Daydream Festival<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pasadenadaydream.com" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/dd941715e0a485cdf24a7616e04f07e571eeb9d1/original/cure19-ig-1080x1350.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p><a contents="Chelsea Wolfe" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be playing Pasadena Daydream Festival, curated by Robert Smith of The Cure, on August 31st. </p>
<p>Tickets on sale Friday, May 17 here: <a contents="pasadenadaydream.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pasadenadaydream.com" target="_blank">pasadenadaydream.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57533522019-05-13T16:23:54-07:002019-05-13T16:31:48-07:00Interview (05/2019) // Metal Storm<figure data-orig-height="85" data-orig-width="211"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://metalstorm.net/pub/interview.php?interview_id=777" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/aa71c180ba6907e75f7fab420ad337e7/tumblr_inline_prgtrbmjVm1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://metalstorm.net/pub/interview.php?interview_id=777" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d565c45e496facccefb2bbe7f24d2a87063240cd/original/err-by-vera-marmelo.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><i><a href="http://metalstorm.net/pub/interview.php?interview_id=777">Interview via Metal Storm</a></i></p>
<p>Knowing that I will have the opportunity to interview a lot of people at Roadburn but still having to work around schedules, I decided to do just two. But the very first one that was on my mind was interviewing <a href="emmaruthrundle.com">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, knowing how much I loved her last record...</p><!-- more -->
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<p><b>RP: You've had a big change of location and you've finally recorded in a studio with a band, which obviously had a big effect on the new album to make it different from previous releases. How much did it affect the final product and would you say there's another element of it that we're missing?</b><br><br>ERR: I would say having a full band did change the live performance. I've played a lot solo before recording with this band and being with this band that I play with now. I think it adds more dynamic...<br><br><b>RP: Chemistry?</b><br><br>ERR: ...there's a different chemistry, exactly! We were tracking everything live versus doing, you know, like in the other records, I would track a main guitar part and go back and re-layer everything myself. I miss doing that and I might go back to doing that at some point, but I think it was nice. I've been touring with this band and we've developed a special energy together that I wanted to capture on On Dark Horses.<br><br><b>RP: So it felt nice trying something new.</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah, it was good.<br><br><b>RP: And there was also a change of location, you've moved to Louisville.</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah, Louisville, Kentucky. That's very very different and far away.<br><br><b>RP: And less agitated I suppose.</b><br><br>ERR: Well it's just different.<br><br><b>RP: In every recent interview that I read there was talk about the change of location and the band thing so I wanted to know if there's anything about the new record that made it different from the others that we should have been asking.</b><br><br>ERR: I think there's a lot more power in this record, that the past records were more vulnerable, and on this record I feel that personally I've come to a place of overcoming and I feel stronger as a person and as a musician. I'm more empowered. And I think that translates in this record. It's not about futility, it's about action and overcoming to some decree. So I think that's a big difference.<br><br><b>RP: Yeah it definitely shows. Compared to previous albums like Marked For Death, your new albums feels a lot less negative, even though it's still emotionally heavy.</b><br><br>ERR: I would agree with that.<br><br><b>RP: Songs like "Light Song" is the first time I felt you genuinely happy on record. Would you say that changes in your life made you prone to writing more positive music?</b><br><br>ERR: I think so.<br><br><b>RP: I'm glad you're a lot happier now.</b><br><br>ERR: Thank you!<br><br><b>RP: While I love "Fever Dreams", I always had the filling it felt like a mid-record song instead of an opener. Was it intentionally put as the album opener? Why?</b><br><br>ERR: We sequenced the album very intentionally and spent a lot of time deciding the order of the songs. We put that song at the beginning because it opens in a very intense way and immediately takes you into the world of the record.<br><br><b>RP: Wastes no time.</b><br><br>ERR: Wastes no time, it's a very expansive song and the way it ends is very heavy. For me it's one of the most emotionally impactful songs and when I do play solo I do play that song without the band. So for me it works as an opener. It was controversial for everyone involved. The label didn't know if that was the right one. The band didn't know.<br><br><b>RP: So I'm not the only one.</b><br><br>ERR: It was almost a "Fuck you" in a way. Very abrupt. It doesn't ease you in. Here it is. Get into the music with us.</p>
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<p><b>RP: It's also, if I'm not mistaken, the first time that we've heard a voice other than your own on your solo records, as well as guitar works by other people than you. How does it feel to make a much more collaborative record? Would you say this would make you more open to collaborations with other artists in the future?</b><br><br>ERR: Not necessarily. I am doing collaborations. I am working on a collaboration with <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7351&bandname=Thou">Thou</a>. But I don't know if that's a direct result of... I think that the first few records that I've made solo, I was coming out of being in <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=10301&bandname=Red+Sparowes">Red Sparowes</a> and <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9314&bandname=Marriages">Marriages</a> and I was sort of taking claim to my own music and my own person. And then in this record it changed a little. Evan had started singing on the song "Run Forever" while we were playing it live. It was just a natural progression of how things went. I don't know if I would do it the same way again. I found that I like having control over all of the elements.<br><br><b>RP: Yeah, I felt a bit guilty admitting that during Roadburn I enjoyed the last song, that you played alone, more than the set with the entire band.</b><br><br>ERR: Oh, thank you. I was also coming off the tour with <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7351&bandname=Thou">Thou</a> and we were playing different sets and I was playing solo. We hadn't played as a band for several months. It was funny to see how the Roadburn show would turn out. But I think at this stage I enjoy playing solo more than I do with the band.<br><br><b>RP: Maybe we'll see you more solo in the future.</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah I think so.</p>
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<p><b>RP: Speaking a collaboration, you've done a collaborative set with <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7351&bandname=Thou">Thou</a> and you've been touring with them this spring. You also said that you're gonna record an album in the future. How did that come to be?</b><br><br>ERR: It sort of happened. It was almost like an internet flirtation. Always posting about how much I love them and listen to them. And they reached out to me and asked. Part of their Roadburn deal was that they had to do four sets, and one of the sets was a collaborative set. And I was just lucky enough to be the one that they chose to do it with. We've been working on it for several months and it's been a great experience. I didn't know them that well before. We played a festival together in Seattle last year and we know a lot of the same people. Anyway we've become great friends and my love for them has only deepened.<br><br><b>RP: I was really surprised when your performance together was announced. It was something really unexpected. It reminded me of why Roadburn is such an important festival. You can't really see things like this coming together anywhere else.</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah, I think that they have a strong vision, they're visionaries, Walther and Becky. They do so much for this community and strengthening it and pushing us all, the boundaries of what's comfortable, and made something new from that. And I totally agree with you, couldn't have said it better.<br><br><b>RP: And you were with <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7351&bandname=Thou">Thou</a> during their skate park <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9525&bandname=Misfits">Misfits</a> set as well, which I've sadly missed. How did that idea come to be and how was the experience?</b><br><br>ERR: That was part of their Roadburn four sets as well, a secret show. Obviously they've been practicing for it. I'm a huge <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9525&bandname=Misfits">Misfits</a> fan so I kinda asked them if I could join for a couple of songs. If there was any cover band I'd wanna be a part of, it would be a <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9525&bandname=Misfits">Misfits</a> one. And they're such punks. It was just really fun and cool. Nate from <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=3527&bandname=Converge">Converge</a> was there too and Adam from <b>Gilead Media</b> was singing. It was a very fun moment.<br><br><b>RP: This is why I'm really sad because if it was just another set I could have seen it at another festival or in a tour, but that's something that's never gonna happen again.</b><br><br>ERR: Probably not.<br><br><b>RP: Like that one time they also made a secret show where they covered Nirvana songs. You could have done that as well.</b><br><br>ERR: I guess so, that's true. I don't know what to expect from <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7351&bandname=Thou">Thou</a>, which is something I love about them, they're so diverse.<br><br><b>RP: Which <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9525&bandname=Misfits">Misfits</a> songs did you play with them?</b><br><br>ERR: Let's see. I did "Bullet", "Last Caress", "Hybrid Moments" and "Skulls".<br><br><b>RP: And whose idea was it to be a <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9525&bandname=Misfits">Misfits</a> set?</b><br><br>ERR: That was their thing. They were planning this way before I was involved.<br><br><b>RP: Your <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=7351&bandname=Thou">Thou</a> tour and collaboration aren't the first time that the metal world had their attention turned to you, since in 2015 <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9314&bandname=Marriages">Marriages</a>' <i>Salome</i> was nominated for Alternative Metal album of the year in our Metal Storm Awards and for a lot of us that was our first taste of your music. Should we expect anything new from that project?</b><br><br>ERR: There's been talk of it but Deb is doing <b>Drab Majesty</b> and he's very busy and I've been doing a lot of solo stuff. I think that my solo stuff is getting heavier because I'm missing playing in <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=9314&bandname=Marriages">Marriages</a>, you know. We haven't been doing anything for many years. I would like to say that there would be something in the future but right now there's too many plans already going on.<br><br><b>RP: Hopefully something will come of it in the future.</b><br><br>ERR: Hopefully yeah, I think it would be fun for us to all get back together.<br><br><b>RP: On apparent hiatus for an even longer time is another one of the heavier bands you've been part of. Have there been attempts to get Red Sparrowes back together?</b><br><br>ERR: Well I'm in LA right now, and I can't say 100% what's happening, but I can tell you that several members of the band are playing together this week in LA.<br><br><b>RP: That's strange, you're in LA too.</b><br><br>ERR: Let's just say we're all having a visit. Start a little rumor.<br><br><b>RP: Well by the time I transcribe and publish this you will already have announced a reunion.</b><br><br>ERR: *laugh* I think if we do anything it's probably far off but it's not out of the question.<br><br><b>RP: Because when was the last time you performed together? Was it 2011? 2010? Something like that.</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah.<br><br><b>RP: And I suppose that Headless Prince of Zolpidem is to remain a one-off thing?</b><br><br>ERR: I'm actually working on some new music for that too.<br><br><b>RP: You've been working on quite a lot of stuff.</b><br><br>ERR: That's all you can do, work. I like to stay busy. Otherwise my mind would drive me insane.<br><br><b>RP: Hasn't it already?</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah, I guess it sort of has.<br><br><b>RP: There was a song that you used to play but I'm not sure if it ever made it to the studio. What happened to "Gilded Cage"?</b><br><br>ERR: That song's gonna be on the next record.</p>
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<p><b>RP: Ok, so we already have a confirmed one. And besides music you're also at Roadburn with an art exhibition, which I've noticed that, like your record, is very focused on horses, what can you tell us about that?</b><br><br>ERR: Well the record became about horses through this lyrics on "Darkhorse", you know, the metaphor of the dark horse, something or someone that isn't likely to succeed but comes out ahead. That lyric sort of became a title and force behind the record, and then I just started gravitating towards images of horses and using them as a metaphor for different things that I was going through. And all those paintings I was making after the record was done while I was going through the sequencing and the editing and the press cycle. I think you can see the paintings evolve. The blue one was the first one and that one was just something I was doing, I guess, for fun. And then that kinda became more restrained and tied up. I think that was my reaction to how the music business was affecting. The horses were something easy for me to use as images, as shapes.<br><br><b>RP: They're really really ugly in a good way. And they were right next to Marissa Nadler's, which were very pretty and colorful.</b><br><br>ERR: I love her paintings!<br><br><b>RP: Yeah, I love them too.</b><br><br>ERR: I love her.<br><br><b>RP: I'd say that as well, but it wouldn't come off right.</b><br><br>ERR: She's a great person. I really enjoyed her performance at Roadburn.<br><br><b>RP: Yeah, me too.</b><br><br>ERR: I hope someday her and I can do something together, I would love to collaborate with her.<br><br><b>RP: Oh, ok, so you're really not busy enough, you want a collaboration with Marissa Nadler as well.</b><br><br>ERR: Yeah.<br><br><b>RP: I'm not that much into visual arts, I'm really entry level. How would you describe them as part of a wave, as part of a style? Like expressionism or abstractionism?</b><br><br>ERR: I don't know if I have any way of describing it. I'm not a super well educated fine artist either. I'd describe them as outsider art.<br><br><b>RP: So we're both not really that deep into the history, more just appreciating it.</b><br><br>ERR: I have an interest, I did go to art school, but I dropped out, so I don't have a degree.<br><br><b>RP: Would you say there's any visual artist or painter that you'd recommend us to check out.</b><br><br>ERR: I think there's a lot of current artists. There's so many amazing artists on Instagram. There's this artist that I've discovered, it's nothing like what I do. My favorite painter right now is this guy called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/davidkassan/?hl=en">David Kassan</a>. I went to an art convention in LA a few years ago, and there's hundreds and hundreds of artists with paintings through the gallery and having booths there, and I saw this painting, a small realist portrait of an older woman. <a href="https://www.davidkassan.com/paint#prettyPhoto/13/">She's covering one of her eyes and has a cigarette.</a> And it was so moving and striking. I wrote down his name and looked him up. He mostly now paints Holocaust survivors. His work is just incredibly powerful and moving. He's my favorite painter. I was lucky enough to meet him in person, he came up to a show in New Mexico. He's an artist that I really really adore.<br><br><b>RP: Thanks, we will check it out. And as a Roadburn festival-goer, which was your favorite band to have seen?</b><br><br>ERR: I think this year I would have to say <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=8748&bandname=Sumac">Sumac</a> was just incredible. There were so many great things that I saw, but that show really left an impression on me. That band and the way that they blend things, I think it was the most avant-garde I've seen <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=8748&bandname=Sumac">Sumac</a> be.<br><br><b>RP: It was the most avant-garde I've seen most bands. And what did you think about the DIY panel?</b><br><br>ERR: I thought it was nice, I was mostly there to support Cathy from <b>Sargent House</b>. I think it's good to have some business savvy, to keep these things in mind when you're an artist, but your main job should be creativity and not being focused to much on the business side of things. I think that it's important to have a grasp on your business. You don't wanna be completely with your head in the clouds. I'm very lucky that I have Cathy who works for and with me and takes care of a lot of stuff, so I have a very good support team. You wanna be well educated enough that you can navigate the world, especially since what we're doing is a smaller community, have a grasp of it to look out for yourself but it should never get in the way of making art.</p>
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<p><b>RP: I've seen your Amoeba "What's In My Bag?" episode. You've had a vinyl of<i>Ghost In The Shell</i>, the soundtrack.</b><br><br>ERR: Oh yeah, it's funny I was listening to it this morning.<br><br><b>RP: Woah. And which one of the two movies do you like the most?</b><br><br>ERR: You mean like the original and the remake?<br><br><b>RP: No, no, not the remake. The very first one, the original, and the sequel.</b><br><br>ERR: I don't know if I've seen the sequel. If I have it's been a long time. They re-released the original on 70 mm film at a theater where I was able to go and see it and I think that reignited my love for the movie and I went and got this soundtrack. The sequel, I'd have to re-watch it, I can't say with certainty, I don't have any memory of it right now.<br><br><b>RP: What's your favorite <a href="http://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=1748&bandname=Alcest">Alcest</a> record?</b><br><br>ERR: I don't know. I really like <i>Shelter</i> because I was on tour with them when they were supporting that record. So it has a lot of special emotions for me. And I love <i>Kodama</i>too, I've been listening to it a lot since it came out. </p>
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<p><b>RP: That's it, thank you! Have fun!</b><br><br>ERR: Thank you so much, take care. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57219282019-04-16T13:03:26-07:002019-04-16T13:50:48-07:00Changing the game: Emma Ruth Rundle at Roadburn 2019<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="202" data-orig-width="445"><h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<p><br><span class="font_regular"><a contents="Changing the game: Emma Ruth Rundle at Roadburn 2019,&nbsp;Never Mind The Hype" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://nmth.nl/emma-ruth-rundle-roadburn/" target="_blank"><em>Via Never Mind The Hype</em></a></span><br><br>Roadburn had no shortage of female musicians, generally being awesome. Whether it is the heavy bass work of Tamaki Kunishi (MONO), the multi-layered keyboards of Helen Stanley (Crippled Black Phoenix) or Amalie Bruun (Myrkur) achieving two critically acclaimed black metal albums. Of course, it seems redundant writing about female representation in heavy music today, let alone in regards to a massively diverse festival such as Roadburn. However, it isn’t all that long ago that bands were marketed as ‘all female’ or ‘female fronted’ as if this was something new. So even in this day and age, with those labels long gone out of hot shot marketers’ mouths, female representation is as important and relevant as ever. Enter <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, who is prominently featured at this year’s festival and quickly became one of this edition’s most valuable players. </p><!-- more -->
<p><b>Thursday: The Rise of Rundle</b><br>The visitors audibly complaining about long queues at the Patronaat wholly weren’t prepared for a packed Koepelhal. With a line all the way to the entrance outside, visitors scrambled to get a glimpse of Emma Ruth Rundle. Hailing from Kentucky, the songwriter, guitarist and visual artist comes to showcase all of those talents at Roadburn. And good things come to those who wait, because the patiently waiting visitors where greeted with a crushing, heavy performance. With her mixture of folk, post-rock and metal, Emma Ruth Rundle showcases a knack for diverse songwriting, one profusely featured on her 2018 album On Dark Horses. As a visual artist, she also has a spot at the <a href="https://nmth.nl/rb19-art/" target="_blank">Full Bleed Expo</a>, showcasing her art inspired by her latest album, unique and otherworldly.</p>
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<p><b>A thundering Thou on Friday</b><br>And yet again, a massive queue awaited visitors at the Koepelhal. And for good reason, because the early evening saw a collaborative performance by sludge metalband Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle herself. It seems like an eclectic choice, mixing their pounding, sludgy foundation, groovy riffs and harsh vocals with Emma Ruth Rundle’s angelic voice. However, it turns out to be one of the highlights on Friday. A surprisingly seamless synergy, with towering vocals and crushing sludge metal, like two colors bleeding together to form a new one.</p>
<p><b>Punk’s not dead at Ladybird Skatepark</b><br>One of the most intimate and special places prominently featured this year was Ladybird Skatepark. With beautiful yet unnerving performances such as Lingua Ignota or an exhaustive, cathartic hardcore gig by <a href="https://nmth.nl/rb19-sounds-that-hurt-and-heal/" target="_blank">Great Grief</a>, it seems only fitting that Emma Ruth Rundle would make another surprise appearance, located right between the Koepelhal and her exhibition. This results in another energetic collaboration with Thou, playing high-octane covers of punk legends The Misfits.</p>
<p>It only goes to show why Emma Ruth Rundle, and to an extent Thou themselves, became one of Roadburn’s MVP’s. Not only because Emma Ruth Rundle is extremely good at what she does, but also because she is changing the game, pushing boundaries in the heavy music scene.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/57043042019-04-02T12:10:44-07:002019-04-02T12:59:42-07:00Thou + ERR Photo Gallery and Show Review // Twin Cities Media<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="82" data-orig-width="644"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twincitiesmedia.net/blog/the-perfect-partnership-thou-and-emma-ruth-rundle-impress-sold-out-turf-club/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/3f6b016efceb80a4cc04986fdccf73c6/tumblr_inline_ppcl0x96p31rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/1089ed70ee2f08a3bd3ea7ca391e190cbaf88853/original/err-thou.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p></figure>
<p>Tour continues // ticketing info at <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a><br><a href="https://twincitiesmedia.net/blog/the-perfect-partnership-thou-and-emma-ruth-rundle-impress-sold-out-turf-club/" target="_blank">Full article + photo gallery via Twin Cities Media</a></p>
<p>Closing out the intense night of music was Thou and <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. Both powerhouses on their own, the two acts decided to join forces and give a few select cities the treat of seeing a collaborative set (thank you Jimmy from False for bringing this event to the Twin Cities). Now, as mentioned and per usual, I was going in a wee bit blind to this show so I couldn’t tell you if the songs being performed were by Thou, Emma Ruth Rundle, or brand new songs they all wrote together. What I can tell you is the way the music came across was absolutely perfect and honestly I could have easily been fooled into thinking that this was just one band that has been performing for years, not a collaboration that will only last a couple of shows.</p><!-- more -->
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<p>The way that Emma Ruth Rundle’s songbird-like voice mixed with the intensity of vocalist Bryan Funck was truly goose-bump inducing. You would think that Bryan’s growls and primal sounding vocals would overpower the sweetness of Emma’s but that was far from the case. Emma’s voice has an energy about that, although completely different than Bryan’s, easily held it’s own. As mentioned, walking in blind I couldn’t tell you what song was who’s or anything like that but I think that just goes to prove the creativity, artistry and respect that was on the stage. Without trying to be anything than what they were, both Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle brought their own style and sound to the stage and made it a partnership that I truly hope continues to grow past these couple of tour dates. Dark and intense while being light and sweet, this set was one of those sets where I was completely lost in the music and the energy.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56971062019-03-27T14:04:08-07:002019-03-27T14:51:52-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle // Live on KEXP from Avast! Recording Co.<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FCYJ-Sf-_qqI"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="364" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CYJ-Sf-_qqI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="600"></iframe></p></figure>
<p><i><a href="https://www.kexp.org/watch/emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Via KEXP</a></i><br><br>Watch <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> perform songs off <i>On Dark Horses</i> live on KEXP.<br><br>Songs:<br>Fever Dreams<br>Darkhorse<br>Control<br>Light Song</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56934552019-03-25T15:08:55-07:002019-03-25T15:18:39-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle – What’s In My Bag? // Amoeba Music<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOkRMDC_Fb0Q%26feature%3Dyoutu.be"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="364" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OkRMDC_Fb0Q?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="600"></iframe></p></figure>
<p><a contents="Video via here Amoeba" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRMDC_Fb0Q&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><em>Video via here Amoeba</em></a><br><br><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> goes shopping at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles. Her latest album ’<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/on-dark-horses" target="_blank">On Dark Horses</a>’ is available on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> Records.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Check out her picks:<br>Thom Yorke - Suspiria (2018) [Original Soundtrack] (LP)<br>YOB - Our Raw Heart (LP)<br>Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball [Record Store Day] (LP)<br>Tim Hecker - Konoyo (LP) <br>Kenji Kawai - Ghost In The Shell [Original Soundtrack] (LP)<br>The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (LP)<br>SRSQ - Unreality (LP)<br>Various Artists - The Gamelan Of The Walking Warriors: Gamelan Beleganjur & The Music Of The Ngaben Funerary Ritual In Bali (LP)<br>Ted Lucas - Ted Lucas (LP)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56791012019-03-13T12:16:15-07:002019-03-13T12:21:26-07:00The Duality Of Art And The Artist: An Interview With Emma Ruth Rundl // Treble<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="532" data-orig-width="798"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/a6ba67ae06ae3649faaaad8e1ebfec3c68a50030/original/treble-header-logo3.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.treblezine.com/emma-ruth-rundle-interview-duality-artist/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/223509e188e26f4621750709f60c76ad7a7a7e2e/original/emma-2019.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p></figure>
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<p><a href="https://www.treblezine.com/emma-ruth-rundle-interview-duality-artist/" target="_blank">Full feature via Treble</a><br><br><a data-link-label="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-type="page" href="/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> doesn’t lend herself to passive listening. Her latest album, <a href="https://www.treblezine.com/reviews/emma-ruth-rundle-on-dark-horses-review-album-of-the-week/" target="_blank">On Dark Horses</a>, released last fall via <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>, finds the artist sharing personal struggles, combining atmospheric and emotionally gripping instrumentation. Rundle explores some difficult and complicated terrain, such as challenges with mental illness; in creating the record, she sought to present a work of music that would be empowering and provide hope.</p>
<p>Rundle’s craft contains a remarkable balance of feeling and technicality. She weaves melodies into bright moments of melancholy with her vocal inflections, maintaining a somber guitar tone which allows for a captivating fusion. In a phone call with Treble, Rundle says she looks to explore sounds that naturally come to mind and what feelings they carry with them.</p><!-- more -->
<p>“I just tend to pick up the guitar and play until there’s something that strikes a chord with me,” she says. “As I play over and over again, the [guitar] parts and [vocal] melody develop a concept for what the heart of the song is; it’s almost like a therapeutic process, pulling out these ideas and symbols for me that I’ll then start to sketch lyrics around.</p>
<p>“The music I make is a result of all the influences I grew up with being a kid of the 90s,” she adds. “The music is affected by whatever emotional state I’m in while writing it. [The process is] sort of a culmination of the history of what I’ve been exposed to that has formed my writing style and how I’m feeling. I think what I do is more of a stream of consciousness in its formative stages.”</p>
<p>On Dark Horses embodies a fascinating duality; the flow of instrumentation provides a haunting, yet gentle presence as Rundle exudes warm vocals, speaking to the power of moving through struggle. Pain and honesty cling to the edge of each of her words, offering an intimate element of personal introspection. Creating such work is demanding; for Rundle, there’s duality in the creative process. The balance between finding the work challenging as well as cathartic. She says, “Each record has been different, but with [2016’s] <a href="https://www.treblezine.com/reviews/32286-emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death-review/" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a> especially, I think I felt such a release after recording it. I didn’t play guitar for maybe like three months after that; I felt like I had a change in my life for the positive. But then when I started to tour for the music, it kind of brought me back down psychologically into where I was when I was making it.”</p>
<p>While her efforts were to create empowering lyrics and music for On Dark Horses, Rundle also shares that she finds herself in a difficult place, facing conflicted feelings regarding her creative process and performing.</p>
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<p>“I feel like [with] On Dark Horses I tried to write some ideas and stronger themes about overcoming [obstacles] into the lyrics and music, so I could reinforce that within myself as I toured, performed, and supported the record. By performing this music, my hope was that it was going to be more empowering. But I am actually at a crossroads where I am finding it difficult to play right now. I feel that when I’m not in a great place, that maybe I’ve started to associate my instrument a little too much with confronting things that can be difficult for me to deal with. So that has kind of led me to struggle with writing and the willingness to play even.”</p>
<p>She continues, “That’s also coupled with a lot of the anxieties I feel about performing live. I never was like ‘I want to stand in front of people and sing about my feelings.’ [The music and performance] has an effect on me; I think I’m suffering some negative effects from it right now.”</p>
<p>Rundle will be embarking on a tour with New Orleans avant-garde sludge/doom act <a href="https://www.treblezine.com/tag/thou/" target="_blank">Thou</a> on her next leg in support of the album. In preparing for this tour, considering those conflicts, Rundle acknowledges that there’s a lot to look forward to. Not only is she excited to tour with Thou, but is captivated by their artistry. “I’ve been a big fan of theirs for a few years. They just have this heaviness to their music that does something for me; turns the serotonin on in my brain. I really listen to that band a lot, and there’s a lot of diversity within their catalog. They’re my favorite band right now.”</p>
<p>Unlike the vulnerability that comes with a solo show, Rundle finds it empowering to perform with a full band. Embarking on this tour requires the strength she has exhibited in her work; in many ways, her perspective towards the good represents the themes found throughout On Dark Horses. Even when times are complicated, and we are aware of challenges ahead, there is a means to continue moving forward. Rundle takes to the road looking to connect with others and share her music.</p>
<p>“There has [been] some positivity coming from the live performance and playing with the band [has been] energizing. There has been a lot of positive feedback from people at shows, and there has been a lot of great energy. I think the nature of this music connects with certain people in a way that I think is meaningful, and it means a lot to me meeting people like that at the shows and seeing how [the music and shows] can be effective.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56712022019-03-06T13:22:41-08:002019-03-06T13:28:51-08:00Rig tour with Emma Ruth Rundle // Music Radar<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<a contents="Rig tour: Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/rig-tour-emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank"><b>Rig tour: Emma Ruth Rundle</b></a><br><span class="font_small">We explore the tunings and pedalboard of the alt-rock guitar alchemist</span>
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<p><a href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/rig-tour-emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Full feature via MusicRadar</a></p>
<p>Throughout her storied career - which has included stints with post-rock supergroup Red Sparowes, alt-rockers Marriages and drone-metal legend Dylan Carlson - <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has proven herself a dreamweaver of expansive guitar textures.</p>
<p>Her third solo album, On Dark Horses, however, finds her waves of celestial sound lapping against altogether heavier, darker shores. Yet although Emma writes on an acoustic, her rig always informs the direction the material takes.</p>
<p>“It’s like relying on reverb if you’re a singer, and you know there’s going to be that extra dimension to it,” she explains. “I don’t like dry guitar sounds; I have lots of reverb and delay.”</p>
<p>As you’ll see from the gear ahead, she ain’t kidding…</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56305322019-02-06T11:02:27-08:002019-02-06T11:28:53-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle 2018 Tour Documentary // Revolver<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="137" data-orig-width="1091"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/road-emma-ruth-rundle-inside-terrifying-shows-tour-family" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/0a55a37173f3c82af3cdc16b9b7df645/tumblr_inline_pmiq2m1hNl1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
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<p>Full feature via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/road-emma-ruth-rundle-inside-terrifying-shows-tour-family" target="_blank">Revolver</a></p>
<p>Whatever acclaim and success comes to <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, it is all well deserved. Every fan of music knows an artist or two or 12 that doesn’t get their due, and Rundle’s work — from Marriages to Red Sparowes to her solo material — is a case of audience-building through hustle: country by country, city by city, show by show and person by person. Revolver is proud to present an intimate view into that gritty ascension in the form of the new tour documentary <a href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-goth-folk-auteur-emma-ruth-rundles-mesmerizing-new-song-fever-dreams" target="_blank">On Dark Horses</a>, which makes its premiere above. Directed, shot and edited by Geert Braekers, the short film is an artistically crafted look behind the scenes of Rundle’s 2018 tour in support of the excellent 2018 LP of the same name. Check it out and catch Emma Ruth Rundle on the road at the dates below, before someone “I saw her when"s you.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle tour dates with Thou:<br>February 8 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa<br>March 24 Nashville, TN @ TBD **<br>March 25 Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlies<br>March 26 Rock Island, IL @ Rock Island Brewing<br>March 27 Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Clud **<br>March 28 Oshkosh, WI @ Eroding Winds (Matinee)<br>March 28 Milwaukee, WI @ Company Brewing<br>March 29 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean<br>March 30 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme<br>March 31 Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary<br>April 1 Pittsburgh, PA @ Get Hip.<br>April 2 Hudson, NY @ Half Moon **<br>April 3 Easthampton, NY @ The Flywheel **<br>April 4 Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Arts **<br>April 5 Boston, MA @ MassArt.<br>April 6 Providence, RI @ AS220<br>April 7 New York, NY @ Night Bazaar **<br>April 11 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn (ERR full band set)<br>April 12 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn **<br>Collaboration Sets **</p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle tour dates with MONO:<br>May 15 Detroit, MI @ El Club<br>May 16 Toronto, ON @ The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern<br>May 17 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz<br>May 18 Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace<br>May 19 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall<br>May 20 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<br>May 22 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br>May 23 Washington, DC @ Union Stage<br>May 24 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall<br>May 25 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl<br>May 28 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall<br>May 29 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada<br>May 30 Austin, TX @ Barracuda<br>June 2 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge<br>June 3 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lounge, Hollywood Forever<br>June 5 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall<br>June 7 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater<br>June 8 Seattle, WA @ Neumos<br>June 10 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge<br>June 11 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre<br>June 13 St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill Duck Room<br>June 14 Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall<br>June 15 Chicago, IL @ Bohemian National Cemetery</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56109092019-01-24T12:53:40-08:002019-02-28T16:10:38-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Tour with Thou + Roadburn Collab Set<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="1229"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/d6ebac8c1e30514049767d1161f450f585f54c8d/original/ijujxasa.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCs1oJhHjErA4aVWznro_qZcY3bNv-SxdUeoPoe9-detE2-tYBIQJfYcRYw0nWc1dvWCI9BtxmxK5uK&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAN1t2Kcpn-nXF5N5UdA5RcV_AGmUv6fGxic17vAZXds-tHXsUC58A2l0mSQc_BxQGfE1YB6JMzzkiuuej8kp_S3yDc0eFby3Nza30aXuel4T7z10CzGVYcNveGCOZNptk79GhMDhHPws7n4yUcAy2_kb-FJTJkyErJEUtt7x0NLzXnMKUmgnY50-dHQE7nwzNk9Uzog4_wnRPCa9H99yAk5_LUm8iTGir3XQLSImL2KxcptPwzz_KDF5b3y5AOCPVclmgM6cCnQuG2zdmDeKk3H093q8i6pZytf12hzmHOLfygvfJe0ZDeCBCY8MgtXfu_IVw85DR7Xjg4Rg" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be touring the midwest / east coast with <a href="http://noladiy.org/thou.html" target="_blank">Thou</a>. They will also be performing a collaborative set at <a href="http://roadburn.com" target="_blank">Roadburn Festival</a> in the Netherlands.<br>More info at <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
<p>FEB 08 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa<br>MAR 24 Nashville, TN @ Drkmttr Collective **<br>MAR 25 Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlies<br>MAR 26 Rock Island, IL @ Rock Island Brewing<br>MAR 27 Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Clud **<br>MAR 28 Oshkosh, WI @ Eroding Winds (Matinee)<br>MAR 28 Milwaukee, WI @ Company Brewing<br>MAR 29 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean<br>MAR 30 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme<br>MAR 31 Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary<br>APR 01 Pittsburgh, PA @ Get Hip.<br>APR 02 Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt **<br>APR 03 Easthampton, NY @ The Flywheel **<br>APR 04 Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Arts **<br>APR 05 Boston, MA @ MassArt.<br>APR 06 Providence, RI @ AS220<br>APR 07 New York, NY @ Night Bazaar **<br>APR 12 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn **</p>
<p>Collaboration Set **</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/56057002019-01-21T11:02:14-08:002019-01-21T17:16:28-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle North American Tour with MONO<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3570" data-orig-width="3570"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/515aacbc327beb32b0f9be301cb56247ec406be1/original/mono-admatsquare.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has announced a full band North American tour supporting <a href="https://www.facebook.com/monoofjapan/" target="_blank">MONO</a> on all dates. Tickets at <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
<p>MAY 15 Detroit, MI @ El Club<br>MAY 16 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern<br>MAY 17 Montréal, QC @ Bar Le “Ritz” P.D.B.<br>MAY 18 Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace<br>MAY 19 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall<br>MAY 20 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<br>MAY 22 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br>MAY 23 Washington, DC @ Union Stage<br>MAY 24 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall<br>MAY 25 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl<br>MAY 28 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall<br>MAY 29 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada<br>MAY 30 Austin, TX @ Barracuda<br>JUN 01 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf<br>JUN 02 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge<br>JUN 03 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lounge @ Hollywood Forever<br>JUN 05 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall<br>JUN 07 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater<br>JUN 08 Seattle, WA @ Neumos<br>JUN 10 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge<br>JUN 11 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre<br>JUN 13 St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill Duck Room<br>JUN 14 Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall<br>JUN 15 Chicago, IL @ Bohemian National Cemetery</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55988302019-01-16T08:32:46-08:002019-01-16T13:51:58-08:00Rig Rundown: Emma Ruth Rundle // Premier Guitar<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="93" data-orig-width="490"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28411-rig-rundown-emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/8f9b73409d2a6f3c5a67669d85d8d8a0/tumblr_inline_plg142p9V81rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fx06PlQWyBs?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p>via <a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28411-rig-rundown-emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Premier Guitar</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55620022018-12-19T13:43:19-08:002019-01-24T14:42:39-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle on Top 50 Albums & Tracks // mxdwn<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="97" data-orig-width="396"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/81ed74927f7ebb2157b9127187f9d282/tumblr_inline_pk06pqMMLK1rlbw04_540.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://music.mxdwn.com/2018/12/18/features/top-50-best-albums-of-2018/" target="_blank"><b>Top 50 Best Albums of 2018</b></a></h2>
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<p>7. <a href="http://facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> – <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/on-dark-horses" target="_blank">On Dark Horses</a></p>
<p>Operating in a genre of metal-influenced folk rock that has suddenly become very busy, Emma Ruth Rundle shows why she is among the best in the category. From her standout single “The Light Song,” which features her partner and hardcore icon Evan Patterson on guest vocals to the excellent “Fever Dreams,” her album On Dark Horses makes for one of the most intriguing listens of 2018. Like her peers in Chelsea Wolfe and Myrkur, Rundle is able to blend the bleakness of heavy metal with beautiful folk music for a sound that’s altogether unique. – Matt Matasci</p>
<h2><b><a href="https://music.mxdwn.com/2018/12/18/features/top-50-best-songs-of-2018/" target="_blank">Top 50 Best Songs of 2018</a></b></h2>
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<p>6. Emma Ruth Rundle – <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/light-song" target="_blank">“Light Song”</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle has been making her own impressions within this growing realm of broodingly dark folk metal for years now, but her 2018 release On Dark Horses is one for the considerably moody books. Rundle has had a lot of transitions in her life recently — an incredibly serious relationship with Evan Patterson (who appears on this track) and a big relocation because of that incredibly serious relationship — that have taken her out of her usual West Coast environment and thrown her into the arms of transplanted creativity. Now calling Louisville, Kentucky home, Rundle’s experience acclimating to her new surroundings were a large part of her new album and particularly “Light Song,” whose lyrics and accompanying music video are almost like an emotional roadmap to her development of comfort and ease. Rundle has always been one for embedding personal narratives into her lyrics and with just a few listens to “Light Song,” it’s very easy as the listener to get swept up her introduction to her home and new self. – Cervante Pope</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55598362018-12-18T16:20:12-08:002018-12-18T16:28:58-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Live Review + Photos at The Echo // CVLT Nation<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="84" data-orig-width="600"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.cvltnation.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/ff50ca348e90e142cef0af32567a657f/tumblr_inline_pjyj1lhHsz1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.cvltnation.com/emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle-echo-los-angeles/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/233a6500ef1bc003be16af7328e8cfc4/tumblr_inline_pjyj2cFUf51qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/158fe94d31abcd8a0c45cd6c22bde40f/tumblr_inline_pjyj2tKg1I1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Full article via <a href="https://www.cvltnation.com/emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle-echo-los-angeles/" target="_blank">CVLT Nation</a><br><br>This year has brought me a lot of shows that would be my first time hearing the performing artists. And this one was not an exception. I had a vague idea of what to expect, yet the actual show proved to be beyond anything I imagined. The bands complimented each other perfectly and the music invoked so much emotion, it was hard to contain.</p><!-- more -->
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<p><br><a href="http://facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></p>
<p>The first thing that amazed me was the guitar tone and the playing. So rich, yet so open and spacey, blending the best what post-rock has to offer with indie, singer-songwriter, gothic rock and that special spice that Emma is. And then she starts to sing with overflowing emotion, letting the room get filled with reverb and the echoes of the listeners’ thoughts. Just like Jaye Jayle her music has that perfect blend of simplicity and complexity, complementing her own style of storytelling, or more like that mesmerizing way she is able to make thoughts and feeling come to life and have shape in her music. It is so beautiful and touching. And the lights supported the performance splendidly, mostly coloring it with different shades of blue, only seldomly offering other palettes, which still would stay very desaturated and calm. The set seemed short, though it was still enough to find a soul even in the most lost of us. And the encore came ready to destroy whatever is still alive inside. She finished the performance with “You Dont’ Have To Cry” and “Shadow of Your Name”, performing the last completely alone, which only made it stronger.</p>
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<p>For me her music… It hit the spot, it both gave hope, made me realize I’m not alone in this world feeling loss, grieve, sadness, being lost, yet wanting to have meaning. But it also made me revisit all those said feeling in a deep and overflowing way, with each word stubbing me right through the heart making me want to just give up and fade away. A perfect and delicate balance, probably as close to the edge of your own feelings and thoughts as music can take you.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55309122018-11-28T12:17:13-08:002018-11-28T12:45:40-08:00Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle // Circuit Sweet<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="250" data-orig-width="935"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://circuitsweet.co.uk/2018/11/gavin-brown-takes-on-emma-ruth-rundle-interview-2018-album-release-special/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/bafdd69ca29d7780469c198ed230f648/tumblr_inline_pix6im3R151rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/739f4f56100ecfbc0143b0bf35458ca8/tumblr_inline_pix6k49JR81rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/d4879150ebe3676f14cb731ed9f254a9/tumblr_inline_pix6ivMZEE1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>Via <a contents="Circuit Sweet" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://circuitsweet.co.uk/2018/11/gavin-brown-takes-on-emma-ruth-rundle-interview-2018-album-release-special/" target="_blank">Circuit Sweet</a><br><br>We’re nearing the end of a remarkable year in terms of milestones for the stunning artist <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. With one month of 2018 remaining and more live shows booked before the year ends, we reflect on her year in music. September 14th, Emma released her third LP for <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> bringing a wide range of cinematic instrumentals to her sprawling narratives. A perfect collection of 8 new tracks that effortlessly captured the evolution of Rundle as an artist. Expanding and honing her skill set. As previously stated in earlier Circuit Sweet build-ups to the album release, <i>On Dark Horses</i> was written during the rare lulls throughout two years of relentless touring, the songs that comprise <i>On Dark Horses</i> are as disquieting as they are ethereal. Following the release, Emma embarked on a substantial US/UK/EU tour with some live dates with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a>.</p>
<p>Now, our very own Gavin Brown has spent some time chatting to Emma about the third release, recording the album, working with icons and much more….</p><!-- more -->
<p><b>Your new album <i>On Dark Horses </i>came out recently. How did the creation and recording experience of the album go?</b><br>Writing <i>On Dark Horses</i> took place between the summer of 2017 and the winter of early 2018 in weeks between tours, breaks if you will. Recording began in February and was tracked and mixed at Kevin Ratterman’s studio in Louisville, Kentucky called LA LA Land during the 10 we had there.</p>
<p><b>What has the reaction to the album been like so far?</b><br>Sometimes I feel like I live on an island or under a rock and don’t always see or hear the feedback but having just come off of a 5 week tour of Europe and the UK I feel good about how it’s been received. I think it’s still early and that it takes time for people to hear albums and let hem sink in. It’s been very uplifting to see so many people at the shows and supporting the album in press and otherwise.<br><br><b>Is the title of the album in reference to anything in particular?</b><br>It’s meant to describe what I feel about growing up in and outliving a childhood rife with struggle both mental and physical- I prefer to not be overly explicit in revealing some of the personal content.</p>
<p><b>Where do you find the inspiration for your lyrics? </b><br>Most of my lyrics for these solo records are personal and draw from real life experiences. I don’t know that I will always write in this way but it’s been an important part of how I’ve been processing my past.<br><br><b>You have been on tour in the U.K. and Europe with Jaye Jayle. How has the tour been?</b><br>Err- The tour had been hard work, as tours are, but very rewarding. I’ve been surprised by how many people have come out and how kind the audiences have been. I feel very lucky and humbled by the whole experience.</p>
<p><b>What have some of the highlights of the tour been?</b><br>Getting to swim on the ocean in Basque Country on my birthday was very special. A rare moment not only spent outside the van but in such beautiful nature. Another big highlight for me was playing Manchester and hearing so many people singing along to the encore, Shadows of my Name- it made me want to cry.</p>
<p><b>With members of Jaye Jayle in your band too, being on the road must have a real family vibe?</b><br>Indeed, we’ve done a lot of touring together. Evan is my husband as well as my second guitar and the frontman of Jaye Jayle and I must admit that I really love working with my partner in this way. There’s a lot of love in our crew and I’m feeling sad that this will most likely mark the end of the two band package tours.</p>
<p><b>Will you ever do another split or indeed an album with Jaye Jayle?</b><br>I do love playing and singing in Jaye Jayle as I do when we aren’t doing the two band bill thing, and would gladly play and sing on their next record. I would also love to have another opportunity to play my songs with Todd and Evan but as far as another split or actual collab record, I don’t think so.<br><br><b>Have you been playing much material from the new album and how has it been going down?</b><br>Most of the set we’ve been playing on this tour has been from<i> On Dark Horses </i>and it’s been well received. You can definitely tell that there’s more recognition in the audience when we play older songs but that makes sense. It seems people are happy to hear the new but are still becoming aquatinted with it.</p>
<p><b>How was the show at the Sonic City Fest with Zola Jesus?</b><br>It was awesome. She was super sweet in conversation and an incredible performer. I really enjoyed the whole evening. If you’re now hip to Facs, the other band on the bill that night, I highly recommend.</p>
<p><b>What are your touring plans for the rest of the year?</b><br>We are about to take the whole circus on one final tour of the western US that will start on November 30th in Nashville and end December 17th in Kansas City. That will conclude this year’s touring.</p>
<p><b>Do you find that playing live can act as a cathartic experience?</b><br>Absolutely. Both as a solo performance and with the full band. Both have their merits. Despite some amount of lingering stage fright, I do find performing- when the planets alight- to be a magically sublime experience. It’s rare to strike into that mode but makes it all worthwhile.</p>
<p><b>Whose been some of the most memorable artists you have played with in the past?</b><br>I can’t say that I’ve played with any artists who I would describe as forgettable. I have a great love and respect for most of the bands I’ve supported and played with. I really love Alcest both as a band and as people.</p>
<p><b>Who would you love to tour with in the future?</b><br>I’d love to tour with Cloakroom just because I love their music so much. I’ve tried to get them on the road. It hasn’t worked out yet but maybe someday.</p>
<p><b>How was the experience of working with the great Dylan Carlson and how did that come about?</b><br>Working with Dylan was intense and rewarding. He’s a hero of mine so I was extremely nervous. We tracked that record in 2016 and now I count Jolly and Fylan as good friends. I love the way <i>Conquistador</i> turned out and meeting/working with Kurt was also a pleasure.</p>
<p><b>Will Red Sparrowes and Marriages be doing anything else in the future or are you too busy at the moment?</b><br>I hope to do more with both bands but it’s been hard to find the time as of late. Perhaps next year.<br><br><b>What about the possibility of another Headless Prince of Zolpidem album or was that a one-off?</b><br>I’d love to do another THPOZ record. I just need some time and a space to work in. I’m very attached to that project and feel deeply connected to it. There is a bleak nihilism and abstract beauty living in that mask that I feel I’m unable to express otherwise.</p>
<p><b>Who has been some of your biggest musical influences in your career and what was it about them that you found so inspiring?</b><br>I think a lot of 90s music, stuff I was exposed to right around the time I started playing guitar- age 12-13- has made the deepest and most lasting impressions and influences. Tori Amos was a big one for me. She communicated such intense feeling with her masterful playing and lyricism. Smashing Pumpkins“Siamese Dream” for the guitar playing and so on.</p>
<p><b>From the first time I listened to your solo stuff, It definitely reminded me of having a PJ Harvey vibe and this is still relevant with the new album, has she had any influence on your musical output?</b><br>PJ was so much of what inspired me as a young girl and her albums continue to blow me away. She’s absolutely influenced and inspired me, though I will always lack her depth and skill, I certainly believe her to be one of the greatest artist of our time.</p>
<p><b>What has been the proudest moment in your career thus far?</b><br>Doing a session in the legendary M studio for the BBC- hands down.</p>
<p><b>What have been some of your favourite albums if 2018?</b><br>Yob’s “Every Raw Heart” has been a big one for me this year. I really love the band and this album has such s powerful backstory and feel.</p>
<p><b>What albums do you always go back to, no matter what and what is it about them that makes them so special?</b><br>Here are three big records for me. I feel that each of these albums has captured some very potent human soul in a way that’s so pure, I’m still moved after years of listening.<br>40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room<br>Chris Whitley – Dirt Floor<br>Nick Drake – Pink Moon<br><br><b><i>On Dark Horses out now via Sargent House and available on CD/LP and digitally. </i></b></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55281382018-11-26T12:04:52-08:002018-11-26T12:38:30-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle at Hellfest 2019<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1754" data-orig-width="1240"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellfest.fr" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/359930788edcedde0ec164c855340286/tumblr_inline_pitgsqsj6Q1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has been announced to perform Hellfest 2019 in France on Sunday, June 23rd. All festival info <a href="https://www.hellfest.fr" target="_blank">HERE</a>. // SOLD OUT<br><br>US tour dates with <a href="http://Sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> start Nov 30. Tickets at <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>NOV 30 Nashville, TN @ The High Watt<br>DEC 01 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn<br>DEC 03 Dallas, TX @ Double Wide<br>DEC 04 Austin, TX @ Barracuda<br>DEC 06 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister<br>DEC 07 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar<br>DEC 09 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo<br>DEC 10 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop<br>DEC 12 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios<br>DEC 13 Seattle, WA @ Barboza<br>DEC 15 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court<br>DEC 16 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake<br>DEC 17 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55151742018-11-15T11:02:33-08:002018-11-15T11:25:09-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Added to Roadburn 2019 Lineup<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1280" data-orig-width="853"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://roadburn.com/band/emma-ruth-rundle-2/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/381b52eb968da36305f92a77425f59bc/tumblr_inline_pi90ph3YjV1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be performing at Roadburn Festival 2019 on Thursday, April 11.<br>Announcement info <a href="https://roadburn.com/band/emma-ruth-rundle-2/" target="_blank">HERE</a> // Tickets on sale <a href="https://roadburn.com/tickets/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br><br>Emma will be continuing her US tour with <a href="http://Sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a>, Nov 30. }<br>See <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a> for tickets and more info. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/55055212018-11-08T10:59:48-08:002018-11-12T12:26:21-08:00Vote For Emma Ruth Rundle For Best Alt Guitarist // Music Radar<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="565" data-orig-width="572"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-alternative-guitarist-of-2018?fbclid=IwAR0UgdsmVtu6YvV7Ahj_GKnrU0ppvGUxD61oKDQp3fY9vWaZhGRBhnie3jI" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/79727ccbb803aebd15b06a8294d3eb6b/tumblr_inline_phw1uwFAkB1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has been nominated for "Best Alternative Guitarist" of 2018 on Music Radar – cast your vote<i> <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/who-is-the-best-alternative-guitarist-of-2018?fbclid=IwAR0UgdsmVtu6YvV7Ahj_GKnrU0ppvGUxD61oKDQp3fY9vWaZhGRBhnie3jI" target="_blank">HERE</a></i></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54942952018-10-31T13:08:03-07:002018-10-31T13:49:43-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle: Fever Dreams in the Season of the Witch // KEXP<figure data-orig-height="169" data-orig-width="290"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/1963c9bfb97033dc803a2d70180289e8/tumblr_inline_phhbvt0P5u1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.kexp.org/read/2018/10/31/emma-ruth-rundle-fever-dreams-season-witch/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/442182d423f1382bff3aa283ed0b2c95/tumblr_inline_phh9utLmWp1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p><i>full article via <a href="https://www.kexp.org/read/2018/10/31/emma-ruth-rundle-fever-dreams-season-witch/" target="_blank">KEXP</a></i></p>
<p><b>“I don’t think anything I’m doing is witchy at all,” says Emma Ruth Rundle. </b></p>
<p>I’ve just put forward a journalistic hypothesis linking her, Marissa Nadler, Zola Jesus, and Chelsea Wolfe as self-contained women making uncompromising art steeped in haunted melodrama. It’s an oversimplification, but Rundle is too kind to brush off my conjecture completely. “Marissa is a friend and Chelsea is, too. Zola Jesus, I’ve never met, but we’re playing a festival together in a few weeks.” </p><!-- more -->
<p>With tarot tapestries and books like Basic Witches for sale in Urban Outfitters everywhere, we’re witnessing a mainstreaming of the occult. Trend or not, Rundle doesn’t mind being connected to arcane female power. “It’s good company,” she allows. “It’s a unique moment, a little scene if you will. I’m happy to be associated with such lovely ladies.”</p>
<p>Good company is something Emma Ruth Rundle knows a lot about. Since 2008, she’s released records with the Nocturnes, Red Sparowes, and Marriages. It’s her solo albums, however, where Rundle’s impassioned vocals and swirling guitars have coalesced into a sonic thumbprint. On Dark Horses (out now via Sargent House) is a career highlight — an album that marries a hazy, soft-focus mood to the artist’s most fully-realized songcraft to date.</p>
<p>Rundle is speaking to me via Skype from Berlin, tonight’s stop on an extensive European jaunt. She’s on the road with her husband Evan Patterson’s experimental Americana act Jaye Jayle, two members of which play in Rundle’s own live band. Her relationship with Patterson grew out of such travel. “We did a split release (2017’s The Time Between Us [Sargent House]) which was a foretelling of what was to come,” Rundle explains. “Touring that record, we fell in love and now we’re married.”</p>
<p>“A life spent in pieces,” she sings on album opener “Fever Dreams.” The title is a fitting metaphor for On Dark Horses’ shadowy sound. It also hints at a fractured personal history. “It’s pretty literal,” Rundle confirms. “My sister and I came from some abuse as children and a household that included drug problems, physical abuse, and mental health issues that have been genetically passed on.”</p>
<p>Flanged cymbals, hypnotic rhythms, plenty of reverb — descriptors like neo-psychedelia and shoegaze are easy to bat around when discussing the new record. Rundle agrees. “The album as a whole has a quality that definitely references shoegaze.” There’s also powerful ensemble playing and she’s quick to credit Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Young Widows) for helping to achieve both the sound and performances. “We tracked as a group,” Rundle says. “That contributed to the cohesiveness of the album and Kevin’s production added that sort of softness to it.”</p>
<p>Central to the record are those distinctive guitar lines and beguiling vocals, leading to the question of whether she writes more as a singer or instrumentalist. For Rundle, it’s a combination.</p>
<p>“The roles are pretty interwoven,” she says. “I start all my songs on acoustic. From there, vocal melodies present themselves. I write all the lyrics and transfer it over to electric where I work with the band.” Still, even after completing a record, the songs continue to evolve. “Live, I’m noticing that the music is a bit heavier than it is on the record.”</p>
<p>Indeed, the heavy music community has always embraced Rundle as part of what she jokingly refers to as the “trifecta of Chelsea Wolfe, Marissa Nadler, and I.” She’s appeared at Northwest Terrorfest and supported King Buzzo of the Melvins. Perhaps its the elemental nature of Rundle’s music speaks to fans of that genre. “There’s a simple line that comes from playing in Red Sparowes — a post-rock band — to Marriages where we opened for Deafheaven. While my music may not be metal, I listen to a lot of it and feel comfortable in that world.”</p>
<p>It’s not all Rundle listens to, but the dark stuff bubbles to the top. She describes PJ Harvey and Tori Amos as being “like gods” during her formative years. “I’m also into Chris Whitley, the singer/songwriter,” she says. “His whole story and everything about that person is inspiring and fascinating. I’m kind of obsessed with him.”</p>
<p>Horses are another recent obsession — even Rundle’s new paintings are equestrian-themed. And then there’s the album title itself. “I wrote ‘Darkhorse’ for my sister,” she says. “It’s about overcoming childhood stuff, surviving and thriving despite circumstances that may have led us down a different path.” The concept flowered from there. “It was a metaphor that became a mythological character which came to life and I fixated on.”</p>
<p>A sense of wonder about the natural world permeates the lyrics as well. “We outshine the sun, we out-rise the moon,” she and Evan sing on “Light Song.” At first blush, the track sounds like it’s about rebirth while alluding to the pair’s romantic connection.</p>
<p>“There are parts taken from traditional folk wedding songs — some of the baptismal stuff about getting in the water,” explains Rundle. “It’s this blissful love song that’s ended up referencing and representing our relationship.”</p>
<p>A longtime Los Angeles resident, Rundle now lives with Patterson in his hometown of Louisville, KY, where they recorded On Dark Horses. The new setting suits her. “Louisville is affordable and we have a great quality of life. I couldn’t tour this much or be this productive as a visual artist and musician in LA. I’d be working two jobs.”</p>
<p>Directed by Louisvillian Danielle Elise Bartley, the video for “Light Song” paints their existence in dreamy hues. Rundle reveals one personal detail. “We got to borrow Evan’s Dad’s classic car which I thought was pretty cute.”</p>
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<p>The clip and its idealized Southern Gothic atmosphere bring me back to my original line of questioning. Seeking a fresh angle, I mention that this article is set to run October 31st and inquire about Rundle’s own spooky traditions.</p>
<p>“I love Halloween and that subtle change in the air, the thinning of the veil between worlds,” she admits. “While my music may not be witchy, I’m definitely down with the creepy stuff.”</p>
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<p>Emma Ruth Rundle / Jaye Jayle US Tour Dates</p>
<p>NOV 30 Nashville, TN @ The High Watt</p>
<p>DEC 01 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn<br>DEC 03 Dallas, TX @ Double Wide<br>DEC 04 Austin, TX @ Barracuda<br>DEC 06 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister<br>DEC 07 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar<br>DEC 09 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo<br>DEC 10 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop<br>DEC 12 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios<br>DEC 13 Seattle, WA @ Barboza<br>DEC 15 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court<br>DEC 16 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake<br>DEC 17 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54927272018-10-30T13:01:45-07:002018-10-30T13:05:47-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle + Pictureplane on Peak Time // Redbull Radio<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="960" data-orig-width="960"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/peak-time/episodes/october-31-2018" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/21dcccc1c28873fdfa0a297e25c5011c/tumblr_inline_phfgtkoitn1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> and Pictureplane will be on Redbull Radio on Halloween for a special episode of “Peak Time”. Tune in Oct 31 at 9:00am PST.<br><br><a href="https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/peak-time/episodes/october-31-2018" target="_blank">https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/peak-time/episodes/october-31-2018</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54753882018-10-18T11:23:39-07:002018-10-18T11:42:58-07:00Live Review: Emma Ruth Rundle + Jaye Jayle // Music&Riots<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="209" data-orig-width="976"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://musicandriots.com/live-review-emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/017e0c901bc073892d779dd9ebb0350b/tumblr_inline_pgt45gWkQI1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
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<p>(via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://musicandriots.com/live-review-emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle/" target="_blank">Music&Riots</a>)</p>
<p><b>Emma Ruth Rundle + Jaye Jayle // Passos Manuel, Porto (PT)</b></p>
<p>The city of Porto, Portugal, has had the pleasure of having <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s presence on its stages a few times already in the past years. Her previous gig had been an intimate one-woman show, which is justifiable considering her repertoire up to that point. However, when one considers the sonics of her stunning latest album On Dark Horses, the choice of turning her act into a 4-piece ensemble not only makes perfect sense, but it is also utterly necessary to properly immerse the audience in the experience. And oh, were we immersed…</p><!-- more -->
<p>With the one-two punch of “Dead Set Eyes” and “Fever Dreams”, Emma Ruth Rundle and her bandmates set the stage for a nearly perfect show. Little could have prepared the audience for the waves of distorted guitars, the absolutely roaring bass, the powerful drums and the pristine voice of Emma Ruth Rundle that kickstarted the show. Right from the start, one could feel as if being led through the public reading of a novel in which the writer poured her heart out, even if she was admittedly (as she said herself) very nervous. Following “Apathy on the Indiana Border”, an improved and even more heartfelt version of “Protection” came along, showcasing Emma’s ability to let her instincts change the vocal melodies of the song at will with both power and vulnerability. Another updated song was “Marked For Death”, with a slower and denser arrangement (many props to the backing band, who performed fantastically throughout the evening and highly augmented the sound of the original songs) and even a beautiful and atmospheric guitar solo. On Dark Horses highlights such as its title-track and even some “Siamese Dream”-ish guitar moments here and there in other tracks carry the show with strength, and it all culminates in “You Don’t Have To Cry” with a very emotional and slow-building atmosphere that pays off immensely by the end. Following a standing ovation from the crowd, Emma Ruth Rundle returns to the stage alone with a guitar to play “Shadows of My Name”, and here, more than ever, the weight of the full band is felt… precisely because they are not there, and the delay-and-reverb-drenched electric guitar Emma employs buries her vocal lines and the guitar’s own melody, delivering a sour ending to an otherwise perfect show.</p>
<p>Show-openers <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> (two members of which, Evan Patterson and Todd Cook, also played in Emma Ruth Rundle’s band) started slowly, with a long and meandering instrumental introduction, but soon won the audience over with the minimal melodies and mammoth stomp rhythm section of their songs, with “As Soon As Night” and “Low Again Street” in particular being highlights. Fans of alternative, gothic and folk music: keep this band on your radar.<br><br><i>Words: Bruno Costa // Photos: Andreia Alves</i></p>
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<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="3456" data-orig-width="5184"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/fbde0617dbe4bcb34d84daa49bda6b34/tumblr_inline_pgt4c1EPWI1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/36738c322117ff18d2aaae7ced16b5bc/tumblr_inline_pgt4c89uq51rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/b029d8f080167a64761413a248772e4d/tumblr_inline_pgt4cjltWh1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/a5db3184880edaedb9e3cdfd790f4b4d/tumblr_inline_pgt4csWK7Z1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/cd22f2817715a91ac6286573d63234b8/tumblr_inline_pgt4d4pHNQ1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/cd6307cebeb498d98c6ca32902757aed/tumblr_inline_pgt4dd2EI51rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/91a8a63979b01a0d2beafcb6c7ecb546/tumblr_inline_pgt4diofLe1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/47de04967c61d802e6bd7ec4b214ee0e/tumblr_inline_pgt4dohP0z1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/ff76ed44ba14b7be512d1f79ae722ed4/tumblr_inline_pgt4dufXtu1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/9288d79ba4b913ffebc1b37a41f95b0c/tumblr_inline_pgt4dzVOq51rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/23a2d331b349dcc8635b20fd0a775f41/tumblr_inline_pgt4e9r1gT1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/ebcecba9b83f8cd06986f52732f2f343/tumblr_inline_pgt4eeY77a1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/52977281443378fa0225510d5ab9d8d9/tumblr_inline_pgt4ejjoMy1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><br><b>Emma Ruth Rundle</b></p></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54623582018-10-09T17:13:34-07:002018-10-09T17:45:58-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Interview // Rock'n'Roll Journalist<figure data-orig-height="49" data-orig-width="187"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://rocknrolljournalist.com/2018/10/the-top-10-albums-of-emma-ruth-rundle.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/10e09ecf7befb8f97c0fff5dec3a78d3/tumblr_inline_pgcwqkYlCy1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
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<p>(via <a href="https://rocknrolljournalist.com/2018/10/the-top-10-albums-of-emma-ruth-rundle.html" target="_blank">RocknRoll Journalist</a>)<br><br>“Dark” singer-songwriter is a term which deserves an official registration based on the modern wave of talented female artists. Next to Chelsea Wolfe, there is also <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> rapidly building her space on the market. Her captivating voice and an amazing taste for cold melodies are more than addictive. If you look at her list of favorite albums, the magic of her sound suddenly makes more sense. In addition we also spoke about her gear, challenges on a tour and beauties of Prague, which is also on her current European tour schedule on 18th of October.</p><!-- more -->
<p><b>Would like to give some introduction to your list?</b></p>
<p>This is not so much a list of my favorite albums of all time. Much of these are rather pieces I return to over and over as they are especially significant for me.</p>
<p><b>40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room (2011)</b></p>
<p>One of my all time favorite albums, English 3 piece, 40 Watt Sun, combine a slower, heavy guitar driven washes over which Patrick Walker literally pours his heart out. HIs lyrics and voice are incredibly eloquent and beautiful. The songs are, at times, in the 8 plus minute category so there is plenty of time to be reeled into their world and taken through Walker’s emotional landscapes. One of my biggest influences in the last few years.</p>
<p><b>Kate Bush – The Sensual World (1989)</b></p>
<p>A longstanding favorite and go to listen for me. Kate Bush has a few phases and different sounding albums but there is always her at the core. I think The Sensual World has become the diamond album in her discography, for me, because of the song Love and the Anger. It’s one of the catchiest and uplifting songs I’ve ever heard. Just watch the video and see Kate dancing at the end…How can you not fall in love? Also some really tasteful world influence and killer guitar by David Gilmour on Rocket’s Tale. Love it all the way through.</p>
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<p><b>Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (1993)</b></p>
<p>It’s very frustrating to wake up and look at the internet these days only to be greeted by any number of people and music blogs STILL making fun of Billy Corgan – not going to lie, it bums me out and makes me feel sad for a world of critics who can’t take it the simple fact that Billy has recorded THE BEST guitar tone of all time and he did so on Siamese Dream. The songwriting is brilliant and this is really an album that takes you to a place, especially by the time you reach Silverfuck. Sure, I jump over the hits – I don’t need to hear Today every time I want to enjoy this masterpiece but if you’re somehow not familiar take the whole trip and revel in what I think is some of the most important guitar playing of the 90’s.</p>
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<p><b>James Blake – Self Titled (2011)</b></p>
<p>A groundbreaking beauty of an album. James Blake managed to write and produce this minimal pop R and B (with strong classical influences) that won him the Mercury Prize. There is nothing but pure perfection and genius on this record. Even the cover art is elegant and humble in a way. I guess there is some sense of humility in Blake’s writing that takes me in even further and I become invested in all his repetitive and disintegrated lines, waiting for them to break or modulate in any number of ways as they do on this album.</p>
<p><b>Cloakroom – Time Well (2018)</b></p>
<p>I came to know Cloakroom just by association. They had done a lot of touring with label mates Russian Circles as well as some other folks I know. I sort of disregarded this band for a time – not sure why – but when Time Well came out on Relapse earlier this year, I was completely head over heals in love with these Midwestern boys. The guitar playing and textures as well as the cleverly timed riffs (for lack of a better word, this band isn’t metal at all but heavy in a deferent way) and the bonus of Doyle’s of introspective vocal has won them a very special place in my heart and headphones.</p>
<p><b>Brian Eno – Thursday Afternoon (1985)</b></p>
<p>In his 11th studio album, Eno has fully mastered the very new world he himself pioneered and invented: Ambient music. Thursday Afternoon is just one long daydream of a song with nothing but the babbling of the synthesized (or whatever he’s employed on this) brook. Nothing “happens” on this album. There is no break or moment of great change or rhythm even… it’s just the most relaxing music on Earth which is why I find my way back to it so often. Pure peace streamed right from the source of new sound.</p>
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<p><b>Tori Amos – Boys for Pele (1996)</b></p>
<p>Tori Amos peaked, for me, on this 18 track album. It was her first time self producing as well and there is something so fierce and desperate in her lyrics and voice. While generally regarded as a singer songwriter, which I think conjures up a picture of a subdued character sitting in a coffee shop somewhere, Tori is really more of a badass and this album rocks it ways though piano and harpsichord driven tunes. I love everything about how the record was recorded and sounds as well. Even the music videos that came from this album are great. If you don’t know, you should.</p>
<p><b>Earth – Hex; Or Printing the Infernal Method (2005)</b></p>
<p>I am not sure when I first became aware of the legendary instrumental band Earth but I am sure it was later on in life than for some other more tuned in people. Hex is an album that I listened to a lot while on tour and desperately in need of refuge from the chaos of being trapped with so many other people traveling across the globe. Hex is like a soundtrack and works incredibly well for someone who’s trapped staring out a window, avoiding conversations for most of the day. If there was ever a time to describe something as dusty sounding, this is it. Having really loved the Neil Young soundtrack to Dead Man – Hex felt like a sister album to me or in that world. It has a special ability to take you into a barren landscape and push out all your youngness which is so needed!</p>
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<p><b>The Body – No One Deserves Happiness (2016)</b></p>
<p>This record came into my life at a time of physiologically shattering life change and a very hot summer in LA. Most would describe The Body and an “experimental” or harsh noise (at times) project. No One Deserves Happiness introduces female forward singing over the backdrop of the bands soul reaping sounds. Chip’s hollow screams have manifested a truly horrific creature in my mind. There is a blend of classical reverence and choral singing within The Body’s noise land and it turns on a part of my brain while listening. I feel comforted by this album somehow.</p>
<p><b>Stars Of The Lid – And Their Refinement Of The Decline (2007)</b></p>
<p>Another instrumental masterpiece – SOTL also have classical inclinations or leanings or is this contemporary classical music? I’m not an ethnomusicologist. Washes of treated instruments grip your xanaxed out sandbag body and drag you slowly and mournfully in waves under a pink ocean of wonder and obliteration of the self. I have fallen asleep in my most anxiety ridden times to this album as it swallows you like no other can.</p>
<h2>In the heart of Europe</h2>
<p>In late October you will be coming to Prague to very intimate club called 007. Did you ever have a chance to properly walk around Prague?</p>
<p>I never played a solo show in Prague, but I performed here with my previous bands already. Every time I made sure, me and my band mates have enough time to check the city. It was amazing every time and I just can’t wait to come again. I visited Prague the last time in 2010 and our tour manager was Tomáš Zakopal, who was local, so he prepared a beautiful commented tour for us.</p>
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<p><b>Could you please present to us your collection of guitars? From the most recent live footages I see you are a big fan of Fender guitars and especially a model called Coronado II.</b></p>
<p>This piece actually belongs to Evan Patterson, who plays guitar in my band as well in my support band Jaye Jayle. Guitar #1 in my collection is a classic mahogany piece from Cordoba. There is also one from Chinese brand Blueridge, inspired by OM model OM from Martin…(I’m sorry, I am little bit sick)… Within electric guitars my most favorite is standard Gibson SG. It was quite cheap second hand acquisition in one music store. Another piece is Fender Baritone Jaguar special HH. Then there is Fender Stratocaster. I can’t remember the exact model, but it’s quite unique as it has two humbuckers. Next to that I also have one white model from Guild. Longer I play I realize it is very important for me to have two humbuckers within electric guitars. And finally there is one really crappy SG, which I would really like to get rid of, as it is badly made. (Laugh)</p>
<p><b>Some preferences within microphones?</b></p>
<p>I use BLUE enCORE 200 the most. Probably as it was a gift. I like its sound, as it can work very well with mids and highs. Another reason is very practical. I realized I get sick more often if I use in-house microphones. If I use my own microphone, I have bigger chances to stay well.</p>
<h2>Life on a tour</h2>
<p><b>I am sorry, you don’t feel well. Do you think it’s also because of air conditioners during this years’ crazy summer season?</b></p>
<p>Not sure to be honest. I was just getting back from a European tour and I must have caught something on a plain.</p>
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<p><b>How are you trying to stay in a good shape on a tour? There is a European tour coming up during fall and that’s quite challenging season for immunity.</b></p>
<p>One can just do maximum and hope. If I can, I try to stay warm and eat plenty of hot meals. I try to rest, as much as I can and get plenty of sleep. But it’s not always that easy, where there is so much drinking and everything else which belongs to a tour life. It is practically a miracle if you survive a tour without any harm.</p>
<p><b>Is there some European location, which you really look forward to visit during upcoming European tour? It doesn’t necessarily have to be Prague…</b></p>
<p>It’s funny, as everybody in the team looks forward for the Prague the most. Evan is practically obsessed with Prague and I just can’t wait to meet friends, which I haven’t seen for years. I am also looking forward to see Porto, Lisbon and also Madrid, as I’ve never been to Spain. In general I love to visit well known places as well as completely new locations.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54530502018-10-02T15:43:08-07:002018-10-09T17:21:26-07:00Dispelling Genres with Emma Ruth Rundle // Addicted Mag<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="427" data-orig-width="1732"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.weraddicted.com/dispelling-genres-with-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank"><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/2ec1cb04bc33f6dc6fde446989329c95/tumblr_inline_pfztnz1EHG1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/0fe76e091991221177920113f22f4fec/tumblr_inline_pfztohr4vb1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
<p>(Via <a href="https://www.weraddicted.com/dispelling-genres-with-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Addicted Magazine</a>)<br><br>Following <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s stunning set at Sneaky Dee’s in Toronto, we sat down (in this case, stood under an ATM security light) and discussed her new album, her new home and uh, music.</p>
<p>The review of her show can be <a href="https://www.weraddicted.com/err-jayjayle/" target="_blank">found here.</a></p><!-- more -->
<p><b>Let’s start from the beginning.</b></p>
<p>I grew up in L.A. Both my parents are musicians. My mom plays harpsichord. My dad’s a pianist, my stepmom is a bass player. They met in a band. I just grew up around a lot of music.</p>
<p><b>Did you grow up listening to folk music?</b></p>
<p>It was all kinds of music. And I think the folk music thing really took hold when I started to hang out at the McCabe’s Guitar Store when I was a little girl, taking Celtic harp lessons. Then went on to work there for 13 years. So I think that’s where the folk influence originated. I think it was just from being so steeped in every element of what that multifaceted establishment was. It was about the concerts, the lessons, the repair and retail.</p>
<p><b>What was the first album that you bought with your own money?</b></p>
<p>Probably <i>In Utero</i>, to be honest, it was Nirvana.</p>
<p><b>About your songwriting process, you start on acoustic guitar. Do you come up with ideas in standard tuning and then work out your chord voicings?</b></p>
<p>No. I Inherited the open tunings also from the guitar store. If you handed me a guitar in standard tuning, I would have a hard time with it. I mean, at some point, I started tuning the guitar in a way that made more sense to me. I heard somebody else start changing a string and then I thought well if you can do it to one string, why can’t you do all this to all the strings, just rearrange it all. So for me, mostly my voicings , the root is usually on the fifth or sixth string. Using those open strings a lot in the chords, its makes them more of a modal thing.</p>
<p><b>You give yourself a lot of work.</b></p>
<p>I actually think it’s so much easier to play guitar like that. What’s hard about what I’m doing now, on this tour. To have a guitar in all the tunings, I’d have to have all of Kevin Shields’ guitars. If I was really wealthy and had a dedicated guitar roadie. That would be amazing. But it’s not the case. What I use is a combination of two guitars, sometimes it’s three and then capoing around. it’s been difficult actually to relearn the patterns of the songs in those different positions on the fretboard, it’s throwing me off a little. Not feeling super comfortable with it yet. I have tried to learn standard. I did take some classical guitar lessons a couple of years ago. It’s like. I do want to learn standard, be more proficient.</p>
<p><b>The genre that you tend to be put into, seems to be called gothic folk or dark folk</b></p>
<p>I don’t think this is folk music at all.</p>
<p><b>And yet in my research, I keep seeing it called folk music.</b></p>
<p>It’s because somebody said something and then everyone else just repeated it. I think that there are folky moments on the records, especially on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDCoCcCt1Q" target="_blank"><i>Some Heavy Ocean</i></a>, but I don’t think it’s folk music.</p>
<p><b>Maybe because it’s hard to pin down, if someone needs to classify your music…</b></p>
<p>I think Americana would make a little more sense in the mix with some other things. There’s a grunge influence. There’s a shoegaze influence, there’s post rock. There is, maybe, a touch of some country songs. And there’s a lot of 90s music. You know, I’m surprised people aren’t like “this is the drop tune Cranberries”.</p>
<p><b>That brings me to a point because as I’ve been listening to the new album, On Dark Horses, there are elements in these songs that lead me to think ‘that could be a pop song’. Play it in a standard tuning, throw in a little piano and a soft beat…</b><b>Let’s get to the new album. I think it’s fantastic.</b></p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p><b>(Producer) <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kevin-ratterman-mn0000768433/credits" target="_blank">Kevin Ratterman</a> is credited with doing pretty much everything behind the board including engineering, mixing and mastering.</b></p>
<p>Yeah, he even played some keyboards and some guitar. He’d be like “I’m going to mix the song” and you’d come back and he’d say “I just added this little moment here”. He’s a very colourful creator. He’s got that creative fire. He’s a very special person. He moved to L.A. sadly. Kevin will come back. I was attracted to working with Kevin because of the Young Widows album, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDs3y2woyn4&list=PLqjPt20_x9MRUK9M-yaEnl1N9V6QcUj3q" target="_blank"><i>In and Out of Youth and Lightness</i></a>, which is my favourite Young Widows album. That’s another reason why I fell in love with Louisville and Evan. I did a tour with them 10 years ago. I became enamoured with Evan’s guitar playing immediately and then listened to all their albums and that record has this wonderful theme in its sound and that’s Kevin and I think he did that for this record. He captured this sonic palette. It just has a colour and it’s Kevin. Once you know him and you’re around him, you see that he’s so in the records that he’s made.</p>
<p><b><i>On Dark Horses </i>seems like the kind of album that you can continually listen to and still pick up new little pieces in the background.</b></p>
<p>He’s hidden a lot of little things. I love what he did with the bridge in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBoNWIsa3w" target="_blank"><i>Dark</i>h<i>orse</i></a> where he did this panning so drums become the horses running around you. It’s very cool.</p>
<p><b>It’s good to have a producer thinking creatively like that.</b></p>
<p>Exactly, and Todd (Cook, bassist) and Evan and Dylan. Having them as well really changed it for me too.</p>
<p><b>Do you have a favourite off the album?</b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBoNWIsa3w" target="_blank"><i>Dark</i>h<i>orse</i></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC25vL7dyD0" target="_blank"><i>Control</i></a> are my two favourites</p>
<p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA8T3-4gEMs" target="_blank"><i>You Don’t Have To Cry</i></a> is the song that I listened to again and again</b></p>
<p>I think a lot of people love that song and it’s our encore. I wrote it for my friend, Blake.</p>
<p><b>You write a lot in what I think of as vignettes or abstractions. There isn’t really a narrative in your songs.</b></p>
<p>It’s all about my life, my music and my lyrics…</p>
<p><b>Your lyrics can be interpreted in different ways. I think that’s the kind of music that people grasp onto. They can make it about themselves as well.</b></p>
<p>I think that that is perfect. And that’s one reason why I don’t want to talk too much about my things, because some of is explicit in nature and I don’t want to really directly divulge those things. But it is meaningful enough and I think that some of it is charged in that way. That’s what music did for me when I was younger. That was the ultimate thing, when music could do that.</p>
<p><b>Of course. When someone says a song saved their life, it’s never a pop country song about tequila and trucks.</b></p>
<p>Yeah, It’s hard to find it now.</p>
<p><b>Which is why people grab on tight when they do find it.</b></p>
<p>I’m definitely like that. I have certain albums and I just listen to over and over and have for years.</p>
<p><b>What’s the one that you still gravitate to?</b></p>
<p>Well, for the last few years,. I would say 40 Watt Sun. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esAK9sKeArw&list=PL3B4AA893625B9969" target="_blank"><i>The Inside Room</i></a>. I listen to it almost every day. But that’s not like a nostalgic classic record from my childhood. It’s a discovery in my adult life. It did that cathartic thing for me that’s just so rare. That’s some serious soul music from my perspective</p>
<p><b>Why did you move from LA to Louisville?</b></p>
<p>It’s a fantastic place for artists. There’s a tight little scene of people. I think the great thing about it is that it’s very affordable and there’s a good quality of life. People are down to earth and we have a nice little situation there. Sometimes I start to feel like I’m trapped in the Beetlejuice town a little bit. And I do miss LA a lot but we get to tour. (Pause). I couldn’t go back. It’s kind of what <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C02qEmCPmG0" target="_blank"><i>Dead Set Eyes</i></a> is about, leaving LA. Louisville is a great place. These fine people are from there (pointing to Jaye Jayle as they load out). Like my family.<br>It’s kind of a long story. I was on tour, Jaye Jayle and ERR released the split record (<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">The Time Between Us</a>) last year, those were b-sides from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz90JZuOckM&list=RDlz90JZuOckM&start_radio=1&t=18" target="_blank"><i>Marked For Death</i></a> and from their album, <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeZ_vTh6gFrAdL9q65ip2DzjmX-z5yYQJ" target="_blank">House Cricks</a></i>. And the packaging, we just made it like this weird country romance. So we had this wild idea, since I was got asked to play Roadburn and do a little tour in Europe. Because I had very little funds, the idea was to combine the bands, have them learn my music and they would open for me. Then they would back me up as my band. That was Cathy’s wild idea (Cathy Pellow, founder of Sargent House) and she’s full of wild ideas. And I came off the Deafheaven tour and had split up with a partner. At some point earlier in the year, I was just kind of like gypsying around. I went back to Denver with Dylan (Nadon), that’s my drummer and Jaye Jayle were on tour with Oathbreaker. So the plan was they were going to finish their Oathbreaker tour and we were going to rehearse for four days in Louisville. I would go to Louisville and then we would all together fly to Europe and play Roadburn and do this tour. And I just thought, they were playing in Denver the next day and thought why don’t I just get in the van with you. I’ll sell your merch for the next two weeks and then I don’t have to fly to Louisville. I’ll just get a free ride, we’ll all have a wild time and I’ll help you out.<br>And I got in that van and I just never got out. And now I’m married to Evan, So it’s a pretty good deal.</p>
<p><b>Talk about collaborating with Evan (Patterson, husband, Young Widows/Jaye Jayle songwriter and singer) .</b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obvHacBj6Sc" target="_blank"><i>Light Song</i></a> is a love song. And so, he’s the answer, you know. I sang on their album. We did that record right after we came back from Europe. I had to cancel a bunch of shows because I was physically destroyed. I just went to the studio to recover and he had written that song (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfUDONM0KqI" target="_blank"><i>Marry Us</i></a>). It was so weird. Like a sort of strange magic. He wrote that song before I got in the van. I sang on it. We had been singing together on tour. We were singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJbeLbsOGY" target="_blank">Run Forever</a> when we played that song live. Those two songs, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfUDONM0KqI" target="_blank"><i>Marry Us</i></a> and<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obvHacBj6Sc" target="_blank"><i>Light Song</i></a> are like secret partner songs. So, if you’re a fan that’s paying attention, it’s kind of a cute thing. That there’s these matching love songs on the records that we both sing on together. I think it’s cute.</p>
<p><b>I do too!</b> <b>Thanks for talking to us, congrats on the new album. Have a great tour.</b></p>
<p>Photo by Geert Braekers</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54339452018-09-18T13:47:06-07:002018-09-18T13:52:36-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Interview // MusicRadar<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="205" data-orig-width="618"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/emma-ruth-rundle-the-guitar-is-so-wonderful-because-there-are-all-these-things-you-can-do-with-it-its-like-developing-a-landscape" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/9c982ddb9664df21d156a6d8d2dc8f92/tumblr_inline_pf9r94JPPU1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/emma-ruth-rundle-the-guitar-is-so-wonderful-because-there-are-all-these-things-you-can-do-with-it-its-like-developing-a-landscape" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/f3c1ee66fdbc1fc6285653ddbe50bd1f/tumblr_inline_pf9r7kSLVp1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/679ae76c78e5ed591c3631f25f6dede2/tumblr_inline_pf9qt4lstq1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p>(Via <a contents="MusicRadar" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/emma-ruth-rundle-the-guitar-is-so-wonderful-because-there-are-all-these-things-you-can-do-with-it-its-like-developing-a-landscape" target="_blank">MusicRadar</a>) <br><br><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is one of those artists with such a deep-seated, personal aesthetic that it runs like a coal-seam throughout all her work, whether that’s jamming with Dylan Carlson, playing in post-rock trio Marriages, or on her darkly ambient solo records.</b></p><!-- more -->
<p>Her playing was honed during a 10-year stint in a guitar shop, combining a “bastardised fingerstyle” that cribbed lesson fragments from passing classical and folk tutors with sizeable effects montages and the dark intelligence common to many of her Sergeant House label-mates. </p>
<p>2016’s stark second solo album Marked For Death provided a breakthrough, or at least something approaching the sort of recognition deserved by a deeply emotive guitarist and tonal conjurer. Now she returns with On Dark Horses, a grounded but unguarded collection, recorded in her newly adopted Louisville, Kentucky. </p>
<p>We spoke to the guitarist, songwriter and frontwoman about her use of open-tunings, creating narrative with guitar tone and the surprising role of acoustic guitar in her heavy songcraft.</p>
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<p><b>How would describe your approach to guitar playing?</b></p>
<p>“I guess there’s different approaches, depending on whether I’m writing a song or playing in a band. What hat you’re wearing at the moment is in terms of approaching the job or the task.</p>
<p>“I’m usually starting a song on acoustic guitar and then taking that over to the baritone electric or whatever other kind of guitar I’m going to use and thinking about how it’s going to fit into the band. I’d say, in writing, guitar always comes first, and the riffs and the parts will inform the melodies of the other instruments and vocals. I strictly play in open tunings - I don’t play in standard tunings - so if I get stale in something, I’ll try another tuning.”</p>
<p><b>Why is the acoustic the starting point?</b></p>
<p>“Well, one, you can take it anywhere and you don’t need to plug it in to a wall. Location can inspire. I like to write sitting outside, mostly. The guitar that I use that I’ve written most of my songs on is an acoustic guitar, a Blueridge OM-style, kind of like a Martin copy, and I just like the sound of it. I like the way it resonates.”</p>
<p><b>Do you think that resonation explains the long ringing notes in your electric work?</b></p>
<p>“I’m not sure if it does. It might have more to do with the open tunings. There’s a lot of open strings that get called upon, and those notes will ring through long passages of songs, because you’re not fretting them. That could be some of it.</p>
<p>“A common one that I really love is like a DADGAD tuning but dropped down so my lowest note is a G#. So it’s quite a low tuning – even below a baritone tuning - and I’m doing that on a regular scale-length guitar on the acoustic and that works out. The DADGAD tuning I really like.</p>
<p>“Most of the tunings I really like structure the root note on the sixth and fourth string, and then the third string kind of dictates whether it’s going to be major, minor or modal. So that’s the whole secret of my approach to guitar. Now the world will know!”</p>
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<p><b>What’s your go-to guitar gear at present?</b></p>
<p>“So the acoustic go-to is a Blueridge OM-copy, so that Martin body-style – your basic mahogany back and sides, spruce top guitar. I have a classical Cordoba that is also pretty standard that I play a lot.</p>
<p>“Live, I like to use a Jazz Chorus amp and I like to run stereo amps, so I have a Jazz Chorus and I’ve been borrowing various Fender tube amps lately, preferably something with a 1x12, just to get that tube sound on one side and then that super clean side.</p>
<p>“The Jazz Chorus really works well for the drop-tunings. You get super-clear bass notes, but then with the tube amp, you get some more of the biting mids that warm it up a little. It makes it less sterile, I guess.</p>
<p>“For this last record, I’ve been playing this <a href="https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/guild-s-200-t-bird-643454" target="_blank">Guild T-Bird</a> guitar. It’s beautiful. It’s white, it has two humbuckers and it’s the only guitar I’ve ever named. I named it ‘The Cloud’. It has a tone that’s similar to my SG.</p>
<p>“My SG is nothing special. I think it’s just like the very basic faded mahogany - nothing fancy - but I like that. So these pickups, it has a super-dark tone, very similar to a traditional SG tone and it plays in a way that is similar. But it’s got a through-neck.”</p>
<p><b>Are there any essential pedals we should discuss?</b></p>
<p>“For me, the pedal that has remained on my board the longest - my favourite pedal - is the Electro-Harmonix Memory Man with Hazarai. That’s my pedal. I’ve had four of them.</p>
<p>“I’ve had the digital Reverb by Boss on my board for years and I’ve just taken it off so now I’m using the DigiTech HardWire series reverb that I really like. It’s got a really cool reverse reverb setting that is really dreamy – just super-great for pure washes of texture. It’s a beautiful sound. I love that pedal. Then any regular Boss delay. I’ve always got one of those.</p>
<p>“I’ve also really come to be very attached to the EarthQuaker Devices Palisades, which is an overdrive/distortion with a boost. It has two different gain channels: you can turn it on and then have another gain that has a totally different tone and then a boost that will boost on either of the A or B switches. It’s just got this beautiful, super-intensive growl that has a lot of low-end to it.</p>
<p>“I’ve had a lot of different distortion pedals and sometimes you’ll think that it’s heavy, but it’s actually just really noisy and full of these frequencies that turn into chaos and noise - and not in a good way. The Palisades is great. That is my main distortion.”</p>
<p><b>What should tone do? What is the role of guitar tone in your writing process?</b></p>
<p>“It really evolves. It needs to suit the role. For instance, there’s a song, Darkhorse, on the album. We have these heavier tones going on in the chorus to create an impact, and then there’s a bridge section that’s this kind of post-rock moment, a fingerpicking passage with clean tone. It allows the interplay between the drums and the guitar which creates this effect that’s supposed to be like you’re surrounded by horses.</p>
<p>“People describe things as being ‘loud, quiet, loud’, but there’s reason behind it. It’s hard. We’re trying to say words about things that don’t have words. It’s music. It’s sound.”</p>
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<p><b>So sometimes you have to put clumsy labels on these things, just to help you describe it…</b></p>
<p>“Yeah, on the last record I was like, ‘Okay, here’s the part of the song where there’s this owl that’s going to come out of the tree for like three seconds and then go back into the tree. And I was just working with someone… Sonny [DiPerri, Marked For Death producer] understood that, you know? I’d be like, ‘Okay, we need to add some dust to this part’ and then creating that. </p>
<p>“Working with <a href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/dylan-carlsons-top-5-tips-for-guitarists-even-with-repetition-and-a-good-riff-songs-should-have-an-arc" target="_blank">Dylan Carlson on Conquistador</a> was so much fun for that purpose. Dylan was just like, ‘Hey, do you wanna come make this record with me?’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely, Dylan Carlson of Earth, I would love to make a record with you.’ The guy is one of my heroes. Hex has been a huge influence on me.</p>
<p>“So, anyway, we get there and we’re in the studio in Salem, Massachusetts, hanging out with Dylan and not knowing what we’re doing until he actually starts playing. He was like, ‘You just do what you wanna do.’ I said, ‘Well, tell me the story of this album.’ He was like, ‘Well it’s this conquistador, and he’s on this journey looking for this city of gold and he’s lost in the desert and he’s got this dude with him…’</p>
<p>“He kind of took me through these moments and it created a visual for me, so I was like, ‘Alright, here’s the moment where they’re about to die of thirst and here’s what a hot wind is going to sound like in my mind, or a bleached landscape - that’s going to be a slide guitar part - or at the end when they’re actually getting to the water, we need to use these certain types of effects to create that.’</p>
<p>“I think the guitar is so wonderful for that reason. There are all these things you can do with it, like using an EBow or a slide. We did some bowing on Ovation guitars with these open tunings and the sound of the horse hair on these strings gets this kind of gritty but beautiful tone on there. It’s like developing a landscape.”</p>
<p><b>What does this record say about the time and place it was made, outside of your own life and geography?</b></p>
<p>“I think that if we’re talking about the emotional content, there’s still a lot of themes that are similar to the last record. There’s no social commentary really going on in the album.</p>
<p>“I guess the last song does to a degree. You Don’t Have To Cry is a song I wrote for somebody dealing with being an outlier in the way that they are and trying to reconcile their uniqueness with some of the small-minded people of the world, but it’s not a political record. It really is very personal, again.”</p>
<p>On Dark Horses is out now via Sargent House. Emma Ruth Rundle <a href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">tours the UK in November</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54289682018-09-14T11:11:46-07:002018-09-14T15:49:20-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Interview // “On Dark Horses” Out Now<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="116" data-orig-width="318"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/68fcff75ef66a46e827ada10fcb25731/tumblr_inline_pf24kbxCR41rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/082135885ba5c445c07f2d57e068cf90/tumblr_inline_pf24lhKDsL1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
<p>Stream “On Dark Horses” <a href="http://smarturl.it/ERR-ODH" target="_blank">HERE</a><br>Interview via <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/emma-ruth-rundle-interview/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Vegan</a></p>
<p><b><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></b> is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and visual artist. Born in Los Angeles, she is now based in Louisville, Kentucky, where she wrote and recorded her latest album, <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/emma-ruth-rundle-announces-new-lp-tour-w-jaye-jayle-shares-song/" target="_blank">On Dark Horses</a>, out today via Sargent House. Rundle’s latest singles feature the duality which is common throughout much of her work: lyrically, while she is trapped in a “life spent uneasy” in “Fever Dreams,” but on “Darkhorse,” she sees a world where she can “still stand high.” This dynamic is also reflected in the music, where dark, brooding guitars and percussion are both fighting against and propelling the emotion and melody carried by Rundle’s vocals.</p><!-- more -->
<p>Another compelling element of Rundle’s work is the commitment to change and experimentation found within her song writing and instrumentation. Four albums deep into a solo career, and a prolific musical collaborator on the side, Rundle approaches each album with a different musical palette and lyrical voice, having created works of ambient soundscapes for Electric Guitar One, sparse and eerie folk on Some Heavy Ocean, the grungy melancholy of Marked for Death and now the band-oriented 1990s-inspired rock of On Dark Horses. This creative spirit extends to her visual art, where Rundle deftly crosses and combines a variety of mediums, textures and subject matter.</p>
<p>While in the midst of preparations for an upcoming art show and <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/emma-ruth-rundle-announces-new-lp-tour-w-jaye-jayle-shares-song/" target="_blank">back-to-back tours</a> of the USA and Europe, Rundle was kind enough to join us on the phone to have a conversation about the writing and recording of her new album as well as her visual art, side projects, life in Louisville, touring, and some of her collaborative work.</p>
<p>— Emily Marty</p>
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<p><b>Congratulations on the new album, it’s your fourth studio album with Sargent House, a solo album; are you just in the middle of doing press at the moment, and promotion?</b></p>
<p>Yeah, been a lot of doing press and getting ready for the tours and ramping up for this art show that I have coming, so my days are mostly either just painting — we also just moved house, so been moving, doing some press, trying to sort out touring logistics and it’s keeping me pretty busy.</p>
<p><b>I can imagine. So you’ve got three tours coming up, two of the States and one of Europe, and you just got back from Europe a few weeks ago?</b></p>
<p>Yeah, so the States we’re kind of just splitting into two parts, whereas we would normally do the whole thing at once, we’re wedging it East Coast, West Coast, and in between we’ll do Europe.</p>
<p><b>I guess it’s probably quite a difficult question to answer, but do you have a preference when it comes to touring certain regions of the US or Europe? Do you enjoy some areas more than others, or do you find them easier to play?</b></p>
<p>Yeah, there’s always favorites — I think there’s some favorites for me, obviously, like playing my hometown in LA is stressful, but it’s a good feeling to play there, playing the Pacific Northwest… I do prefer touring in Europe, just because… I feel like my music is better received there, and the way that you’re treated and the lifestyle is a little bit easier there, versus here, we sleep on floors and eat at fast food places, and there they give you these wonderful meals and either put you up at a hostel, or a band apartment, so it makes things a little more comfortable. And I feel like the shows are good there as well, London is a big favourite for me, show-wise. I got to go to Portugal last year, and that was incredible, probably a highlight of my life.</p>
<p><b>I was wondering if it’s easier to tour with a band or solo, for you? I know you’ve [also] done some touring recently with Chelsea Wolfe, a few dates with her in Europe?</b></p>
<p>We did three shows, I was opening for her.</p>
<p><b>Does that make it any less monotonous, or easier in terms of logistics if you have a band to help you set up? Or if you’re touring solo and you just have a guitar and amp, do you find that easier, being more portable?</b></p>
<p>There’s just different ways of viewing it… it can be easier certainly in some ways not touring with the band, when you’re with so many people that has its extra that’s involved, but there’s something about playing with a full band that’s really rewarding, and I love my bandmates, but playing solo, I think, has a different emotional impact live. So, both have their pros and cons, definitely getting to do this tour which was in Europe, which was a few weeks and was sort of based around doing the Montreux Jazz Festival. Getting to do a tour like that, that’s more based around festivals with some club shows and then looping in on those Chelsea Wolfe shows, it kept it interesting and exciting. It’s nice to tour with a standard way, which is two or three band-billed together for four or five weeks, that can be fun also, every tour is different, I guess.</p>
<p><b>You’ve had the same steady band for about a year now and they’ve played on the new album, is that right?</b></p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p><b>Did they have much of a contribution when it came to writing the album?</b></p>
<p>Everybody brings their own style, personality to the songs. I write all the songs from start to finish on the acoustic guitar at home, and then the next stage is Dylan Nadon, the drummer who plays in my band will come, and we’ll kind of shed out the songs together in a rehearsal space — getting the tempos right, feeling the songs, going back and forth — I don’t drum parts typically or write all those parts out, there’s loose ideas of a feel or a beat or a rhythm and Dylan and I work on that together… and then, in this case Evan comes next, and sometimes, again, I’ll have a specific melodic idea that I’ll ask him to play, or I’ll say “can you play rhythm in this section, this is a section where there should be a melodic lead line,” and he’ll flush out those ideas in his own way.</p>
<p>So, I think you can hear a lot of the style and personality of those musicians, and Todd Cook on bass of course, yeah. Really bringing a lot to the new album and on the other records, would record a lot of those parts on my own and typically write those parts in the studio, you know… would write all the overdubs in the moment, so I feel like having another guitarist and having a full band and getting to practice all together before we went into the studio really made a difference.</p>
<p><b>Yeah, and you actually recorded this in Louisville, is that right?</b></p>
<p>Louisville, yeah.</p>
<p><b>It seems like you recorded this in slightly more conventional circumstances than your three earlier albums, would you say that’s right? Like you recorded Marked for Death in a desert, I think, and Electric Guitar One was done in a van, whereas this was in a studio — did you find that made it easier to record?</b></p>
<p>It did, there were a lot of sort-of challenges that we came across when in recording Marked for Death, and Sonny [DiPerri, engineer and co-producer] was awesome. We also got to do some interesting creative things as a result of that, but I really loved being able to go into a professional studio as a band, and just get to the music and get to the creative aspect of being in the studio, without the challenges of trying to work out of a place that — yeah, less conventional sort of space.</p>
<p><b>And you wrote most of this album on tour, is that right?</b></p>
<p>No, I wrote this album mostly — a bit last summer, when I was in between tours, and then at the beginning of this year, in our winter, in January, yeah. So, it was all written in Louisville, in between tours.</p>
<p><b>So how long ago did you relocate there?</b></p>
<p>It was in May of 2017.</p>
<p><b>Can you compare or sort of contrast the musical and also the visual arts scenes between — you were based in Portland before, right? Between Portland and now, in Louisville?</b></p>
<p>Well I was born and raised in LA, and I was living in Portland for about a year, maybe even less than that. But my sisters live there, and I kind of was like, half-living in Portland and half in LA. Anyway, it’s very different, there’s a very tight-knit community here of musicians… I was introduced initially to Evan [Patterson of Jaye Jayle, her husband] when Red Sparowes did a tour with his band Young Widows ten years ago. I don’t know how to describe it, it’s so different from the West Coast.</p>
<p>I guess I would classify Portland and LA, while they have their own totally different respective scenes, there’s still a cultural feel that it’s the West Coast. And here, it’s more Midwest, on the border of the South and it just has a completely different feel. It’d be hard to sum up the differences in a sound, or a way… there’s definitely a lot less going on — it’s a smaller scale than either Portland or LA, but there’s some really heavy-hitting, lifelong musicians that just chill here. And the biggest difference is that the cost of living is so much more manageable for an artist, you can have a good quality of life here and it’s not a day-to-day struggle just to make ends meet like it is on the West Coast.</p>
<p><b>I can imagine that would make it a lot easier to get art done and record things and put everything together. Speaking of art, you mentioned earlier that you’re going to do a solo show, as well as a listening party, I think on September 8th, is that right? </b></p>
<p>Yeah, that’s right.</p>
<p><b>Do you have any more plans in the future, after this, to kind of integrate your musical and visual art?</b></p>
<p>Well, I’ve had different ways of doing it in the past. I used to do more video stuff for the music, like I did the video for “The Distance” off my last split… I like that the visual art in terms of the painting, and the drawing has its own life that’s separate for me, it’s kind of like another music I can turn to when I get burnt out on music. So I’m not sure, I’m not sure if the worlds will collide fully. I like that there’s kind of a separation.</p>
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<p><b>So when you approach say, a drawing or making a painting, do you have similar intentions as you might as when you start making a song or an album? Do you look to visual art to have the same effect for you as you might music? Or is it a different kind of process and outcome?</b></p>
<p>It’s definitely a different process and a different outcome. With music, it’s kind of working more in this… nebulous emotional conjuring process, where the guitar will sort of pull out this experience from me that I need to deal with, and in painting or drawing it’s more of a tactile fascination and an enjoyment of shapes and colours and body parts.</p>
<p><b>I think, between your three solo albums and also what I’ve heard of the new one, I wouldn’t say you completely reinvent yourself every time, but you definitely seem very comfortable playing with different styles and textures and instrumental approaches, and you also have side projects like Marriages and the Headless Prince of Zolpidem. So, I was wondering, when you do start a new album or writing process, do you deliberately think “I want to try this now, I want to have this approach as opposed to what I did last time?” Or does it kind of just happen organically as you’re writing the album; you kind of, then, come up with an understanding of what you want it to sound like?</b></p>
<p>It’s definitely a process of discovery. If I do set out with an intention, I never fulfill it. I change my mind constantly with what the plan is and what I want to do. I mean, at one point I thought this was going to be an acoustic album, and then I was like “no, this is going to be a full band, 1990s worship album.” I really wanted to capture the chemistry I developed with the three musicians I mentioned, I thought it was just the right time and place to make a full band record, and so, in writing and as the days were getting closer to the studio, I was just discovering it more and more every day and then committing to the plan of that… only really weeks before did I know that the whole thing was going to be a full band. It’s a rock album, I would say. Yeah… does that make sense?</p>
<p><b>Yeah, that makes sense. I was wondering as well, particularly the cover art of “Fever Dreams” reminds me of the album art from A Year of Spring by the Nocturnes, and musically, the bridge is kind of reminiscent of Less Than by Marriages. I was wondering if, while maybe it’s not deliberately self-referential, do you listen to your older work while you’re in the process of creating new work? Do you think about it?</b></p>
<p>No, not really… sometimes, I’ll think about — if I feel particularly attached to a song, like the song “Real Big Sky” off the last record; I’m very attached to that song. I find myself putting pressure on in the writing process to try and maintain a quality control, like I should really try to achieve something that has this level of emotional impact, but then that never really works out either — I don’t think it’s something you can necessarily control. But no, I don’t go back and listen to the old jams, I think there’s probably just some inherent quirks in my writing style that seem to crop up. And I had a lot of fun making that cover, that was actually a contender for the album cover, it’s a collage of photos I took all around our rehearsal space, with some of these photos I took on this polaroid camera with these horse finger-puppets. Anyway, there’s all these industrial… these brick buildings, train tracks, this element of Louisville that is in that collage. I wanted to have a visual representation of the city in there. So I’m glad it made it onto the single cover, it’s on the insert as well, in the vinyl LP.</p>
<p><b>Would you say that, when you’re writing, you’re fairly responsive to or influenced by the landscape or environment that you’re working in?</b></p>
<p>I think so, yeah. Someone asked me a similar question a few weeks ago, and I think I said “no,” but I realised that that’s not true. I mean, the whole Electric Guitar album was completely just channelling landscapes in my eyes and playing it through the guitar, and Marked for Death had a lot of desert moments in it as well, with the dusty slides… and this record, I think it even translated lyrically — there’s a song called “Apathy on the Indiana Border” just about being… trapped in this, what I felt at the time, in the winter here was this oppressive surrounding, and the weather and the look of all. I mean, right now it’s the height of summer, and there’s just trees that are six stories tall, leaves everywhere, green, mansions, and in the winter everything dies, which is not something that I’m used to, it’s just not like that where I’m from.</p>
<p>It just felt really oppressive, and I had a hard time — I was really struggling with inspiration and writing that song in particular took the longest to write. I think I had some oppressive moments with the landscape of Louisville. I don’t want to offend anybody, but that’s just how I felt.</p>
<p><b>I think that’s fair enough. I was thinking as well, given that in your music you often deal with pretty personal subject matter, maybe it’s cathartic recording these songs, but then when you have to play them over and over again on tour, is that difficult at all? Or do you kind of adjust to it?</b></p>
<p>It goes through phases. There’s adjustment periods, there’s difficult periods. Definitely when I started playing Marked for Death, I had come out of a six-month afterglow of making that record – afterglow in that I actually felt better, but I had stopped playing music for a while. I didn’t sing, I didn’t pick up my guitar, but I think psychologically I had some improvements. And then going on the road, playing that album, I kind of found myself back in my old ways: drinking too much, getting back in touch with some of that subject matter definitely takes its toll. And it’s something I’ve thought about while writing… it’s a challenging relationship with the live performance: should you censor your subject matter, knowing that you’re going to have to go relive it and perform it?</p>
<p>I don’t think you should. I think that it’s just part of the deal, and that’s what I do, until I discover a different source to write from. But it is challenging. It definitely wears on me on the road, for sure.</p>
<p><b>I was wondering if you want to talk a little bit more about the recording process? I was read a piece you did, I think it was for Consequence of Sound, you were talking about how you composed “Dark Horse,” and you talked about some influences on that particular song: Sun Kil Moon, Chris Whitley — do you listen to that music when you’re recording? For inspiration and also to get some release, or relief from the actual process of writing and recording your own music?</b></p>
<p>I’d say that in the writing process there’s more of a developing a palette moment, where, in referencing those artists, you’re like “okay, this is kind of drawing from some of these sources and inspiration in writing” — but once we get into the actual ramping-up to go into the studio, there’s no time to even listen to anything at all, there’s just practice all day, and then you’re in the studio from when you get up to when you go to sleep, working. So until the record is finished, there’s probably a three-week deadzone of complete focus on making the record.</p>
<p><b>Do you enjoy the process of collaborating? I know you’ve worked with Evan, or Jaye Jayle, you’ve <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-thrices-new-album-palms/" target="_blank">worked with Thrice</a> as well recently… what is it like, compared to your own solo music, when you go into a project and you’re kind of enhancing it, as opposed to having to write the bulk of the material yourself?</b></p>
<p>Oh, it’s so much better [laughs], I like it so much. With Jaye Jayle, it was great, we had just been on tour and I kind of just waltzed into the studio with them and ate a bunch of mushrooms and played some weird guitar parts and sang. The Thrice thing, they just sent me the track and so was just one evening here of me recording with Kevin actually tracking the vocals and sending it back to them. The most intense collaboration I’ve ever done was with Dylan Carlson on his last record, Conquistador. I went to Salem, Massachusetts and met with him and Kurt Ballou and Dylan’s wife, Holly… he just had called me on the phone and asked me if I wanted to come make this record with him and I went there, not having heard any demos.</p>
<p>So that was actually like real work, getting in with an artist that I had actually never played with before but had massive respect for. The album Hex by Earth is one of my favorite albums of all time. Sitting down, focusing all your attention on the other artist and trying to respond to what they do with something that’s going to add to their work — it was very intense, and stressful in ways, just because I felt a lot of pressure to do a good job, and to honor my hero. But I really enjoyed it, I love the collaborations I have done. It doesn’t feel entirely natural for me to write with other people, it’s always a bit of a challenge, but like I said, with Jaye Jayle and Thrice, just getting to come in and add something to what’s already there- that’s a pleasure to do.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54257202018-09-12T10:48:17-07:002018-09-12T13:39:25-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Premieres Music Video for “Light Song”<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-orig-height="304" data-orig-width="540" data-provider="youtube" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DobvHacBj6Sc%26feature%3Dyoutu.be"><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/obvHacBj6Sc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="540"></iframe></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> – “Light Song” (featuring <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a>) from the album “On Dark Horses"– Available Sept 14th on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>. CD/LP Pre-order <a href="http://smarturl.it/ERR-ODH/officialstore" target="_blank">HERE</a> All Pre-order: <a href="http://smarturl.it/ERR-ODH" target="_blank">HERE</a> <br><br>Directed by Danielle Elise Bartley Veil by Ashley Rose Couture</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/54179782018-09-06T14:00:53-07:002018-09-06T14:28:32-07:00Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle // Astral Noize<figure data-orig-height="66" data-orig-width="283"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/67c535493b10b3d6312778ae6d45f11b/tumblr_inline_penjg0aOTK1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p></figure>
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<p>An in depth interview with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> about her new album "On Dark Horses" coming out on Friday, Sept 14th everywhere - Pre-order <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle">here</a>. She will also be on tour starting Sept 15th.<br><br>Interview by Paige Mathis via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://astralnoizeuk.com/2018/09/06/its-all-personal-it-makes-it-hard-to-talk-about-in-some-ways-emma-ruth-rundle-discusses-on-dark-horses/" target="_blank">Astral Noize</a></p><!-- more -->
<p>“It’s hard not to feel like an asshole just talking about myself,” Emma Ruth Rundle reveals as she ponders the deeper themes of her latest work through an intermittently crackling Skype call. Intertwining a mild-mannered and introverted personality with deeply personal and revealing music may sound oxymoronic, but Rundle’s career is built upon these vacillating foundations. The American songwriter and visual artist’s atmospheric contributions to the music scene have grown increasingly intimate throughout her career, from the lush ambience of <b>The Nocturnes, </b>the cinematic soundscapes of <b>Red Sparrowes </b>and the sprawling haze of <b>Marriages </b>to the ethereal musings of her solo work. 2016’s <i>Marked for Death </i>felt much like the peak of this introspection, brimming as it was with brooding reflections on life, addiction, and self-destructive tendencies.</p>
<p>Its follow-up, <i>On Dark</i> Horses, is suitably a reflection of an artist who has survived inner struggles and emerged stronger, though it doesn’t shy away from the dark realities of life. One of which being that life is seldom as uncomplicated as placing personal demons aside – many will wrestle with them for decades. To find out more, we had an in-depth conversation with the musician about the open and personal nature of her songwriting, collaborating with her partner Evan Patterson (Young Widows, Jaye Jayle), how this album’s creation differs from her past LPs, and how her visual art entwines with her musical output.</p>
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<h2>The last album was written in a remote artist’s residence whereas this one was largely written during breaks in touring after a move to Louisville, Kentucky. Did that change your approach at all? Are you inspired by your surroundings when writing?</h2>
<p>I think it made the album a lot less desperate and I reached a lot of breaking points writing Marked For Death from being alone in the desert, but I think it allowed for maybe some more emotionally potent songs. For some of the stuff on this record, I took a week off in Cornwall and for some of the music I was able to access that same headspace, but it wasn’t as extreme as the last record. I do think it’s important and that it’s an effective way of writing to be in that kind of extreme setting of solitude.</p>
<p>This record was definitely influenced by the other musicians I was around in that having them playing with the band, getting to flesh out some of the songs, particularly with Dylan [Nadon, Wovenhand] and Evan [Patterson], the instrumentation of it lent itself to a little bit of a different approach. Being able to write an instrumental bridge in a song knowing that other musicians are gonna be there to play with you, that part wouldn’t really be as effective as a solo guitarist. There are some different things you can pull of as a band and I think I wrote some parts of the songs knowing that I was going to have that both in the studio and the live setting.</p>
<h2>You mentioned before that this is the first time you didn’t play all of the guitar parts yourself. Was handing that over to someone else strange given how personal your music sometimes is? Or was it beneficial in that it allowed you to focus on other parts of the arrangement?</h2>
<p>It was very difficult for me to do that. I had a really hard time not playing all the guitars on the record and especially letting a man do it was very hard for me. I love Evan and his playing is incredible and he’s been one of my favourite guitar players. I’m a huge fan of Young Widowsand obviously tour a lot with Jaye Jayle… part of the reason we have a relationship in real life is based on us playing together. We were forced into the situation last year when going on tour together, I hadn’t played with them before and they became my backing band for the tour. As soon as he started playing guitar, I was like woah I’m in love with this person – his playing was like an extension of myself. We have the same inclinations and he brings his own unique style to it as well. I was in love with his guitar playing anyway and despite that it was very difficult for me to not track all of the guitar parts and then force him to play things. Evan is an incredible artist in his own right, an incredible songwriter and technically wonderful at the guitar.</p>
<p>So, while it was difficult, I think it benefits the music. Being able to have a second guitar does allow me to play different kinds of leads, riffs, and focus on vocals more in certain areas in the live setting, and I know that I wrote some of the album with that in mind. There was a little bit more planning with how I’m going to live through this album cycle as far as performance goes than the last album. With Marked For Death, I didn’t even know that I was going to tour or even make another record. This record there’s been a little bit more of a strategy in the writing, and part of that has been having the support of other musicians. It was really hard, even up until we were going to the studio. The parts that Evan did write bring so much to the songs and it’s fun. I think I vacillate between being a kind of controlling crazy person and then wanting support and help from my fellows.</p>
<h2>How do you feel being a solo artist compares to being in a band where the output is a collaborative effort?</h2>
<p>I think it’s a lot easier to write solo. Writing in a band is a democratic process and so you’ll have, like in Marriages, three separate people coming from different angles and obviously we have similar interests and similar backgrounds as far as what music made us wanna join a band together. But, the influences can be different enough that you can butt heads on where to take a song or how to start a song. Every band is so different, but the band experiences that I’ve had – which is mostly Red Sparrows and Marriages – it just takes a lot longer to write songs in some ways because you have to contend with other people’s opinions and styles and egos and all of the things that go into being a band.</p>
<p>When writing solo, that just isn’t a thing… all you have to rely on and deal with is your own work ethic, whatever it is that you’re drawing from and the time frame that you have. So it’s part of the reason that I started making solo records and leaning more and more in that direction. [It’s not] because I don’t love writing with a band or writing with my previous bandmates, it’s just natural things that happened and [people] kind of went their separate ways, and Marriages… maybe next year. Writing solo is just easier and something you can do sitting alone on a side porch or in your house or wherever you have a moment and space to yourself. Writing with a band you need a rehearsal space, everyone’s schedules have to meet. Writing alone is something you can do more easily for so many reasons. Interpersonal reasons, logistical reasons, all of that stuff.</p>
<h2>Do you think that your music has become more open and personal over time?</h2>
<p>The last record was really open and personal. I think that there are some songs on this album that are as well. It’s all personal. It kind of makes it hard to talk about in some ways. The personal nature of the music just feels natural. I think the last record seems more personal. This record is still personal but isn’t as desperate and fraught. The last song ‘You Don’t Have To Cry’ is a song I wrote for someone else and doesn’t have anything to do with my personal struggle and pain, which is a new step for me. Other songs on the album are very personal.</p>
<h2>Do you think it’s important for artists to write about this kind of thing and to be so open and candid and truthful?</h2>
<p>I can’t say what’s important for artists to do. I can’t say that my art is important in itself… it’s just what I do. I don’t even know that it’s important. I don’t think there are any rules for what artists should or shouldn’t do. Everyone brings something to the world… if everybody was writing this honest, open music about their struggle it would be kind of depressing, I think there’s got to be other kinds of expression that serve a purpose. Human beings are so multifaceted and complex. Everything has a value and at the same time nothing matters when it comes down to it, especially about art. Art is a luxury.</p>
<h2>Is it important to you that people interpret your music in a particular way?</h2>
<p>No. You can’t control how anyone is going to interpret your music. Once you record or say something and leave it, it’s open to interpretation and there’s just nothing you can do to control that. I’ve been getting asked a lot of political questions lately and I don’t want that. I don’t want people to interpret my music as a political statement. I don’t have any expectations about how it will or should be interpreted.</p>
<h2>You’ve said before that folk music was integral to your musical beginnings. In what way did folk music inform your music? Is this perhaps where often sincere and honest lyrics derive from?</h2>
<p>I don’t know where that inclination comes from. What really influenced me the most was hanging around a folk music store and hearing that music constantly in the background. This place called McCabe’s in Santa Monica. I took Celtic harp lessons there when I was eight and then just started hanging out in the store. It’s been a folk music store for 60 years in LA, they have concerts etc. I was exposed to lots of different types of music at home but working in the folk music store affected my guitar playing more than my lyrics.</p>
<h2>Lots of people have said that your last album was all about performance and visuality and there are essences of that on this new album too. Do you think that derives from your being a visual artist? Is it your intention to combine the two mediums?</h2>
<p>In the past, I would say no. I think that the visual element is something that is kind of just out of necessity, like I’d need to make an album cover or, like on this The Nocturnes record called Aokigahara, I kinda got into creating a visual world around the album. On Dark Horsesis the first time since then that I feel I’ve really done that in the more extreme way, with the paintings I’ve been doing now and the album art and all the visual art. My visual art brain is coming into creating the world around the record more than it has in the past but I don’t think that the visual art that I do informs my music or my performances or vice versa. I think they’re kind of separate muses for me and I turn to one when I’m not doing the other.</p>
<h2>Many metal fans can be judgemental and elitist about what they consider ‘metal enough’ to listen to. You said once that the metal scene is your world. Do you think that people like yourself – who experiment with the established sound – being embraced by the metal community is a sign that the genre is becoming more open-minded?</h2>
<p>I would hesitate to speak for the metal community or for the genre or any genres. I think that there’s a listenership… the spectrum is so huge. I can only speak from my own experiences, which [are that] for some reason I have been invited to play metal festivals and seem to be embraced by that community. There are so many subgenres within metal – doom metal, classic metal, stoner metal, etc. – and maybe not all those people come from the same place. There’s this cross-section of bands and music that’s happening right now that has a very broad and open-minded listenership. I think people (not just metal listeners) in general’s tastes are broadening based on how accessible music is, not the content of music but the avenues through which people consume music is more accessible. Maybe listenership in general is broadening. At the same time, you have these festivals like Roadburn in the Netherlands that has a lot of different kinds of bands playing there. I would still say that it’s a heavy or extreme music festival, but there’s just something open-minded about it. I think it’s a progressive listenership.</p>
<h2>What’s next for you. Any plans?</h2>
<p>There’s lots of touring plans. I have a visual art show in Chicago on September 8th, and then I’m doing a full US tour that’s broken up in the middle by a European/UK tour which starts September 15th here in the states, breaks on September 25th, then I’m heading over to Europe and starting in France on October 6th. I’ll be in the UK November 3rd through to the 8th, and then I come back to the states and do the west coast November 20th to December 17th, so once September hits I’ll pretty much be on tour for the rest of the year, and then I’m hoping to finish writing this acoustic guitar album that I’ve been working on. It never ends.</p>
<p> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/53691422018-07-31T10:26:49-07:002018-08-08T13:12:10-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Shares "Darkhorse" // Consequence Of Sound<figure data-orig-height="108" data-orig-width="236"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/emma-ruth-rundle-darkhorse-origins/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/6ebe1becd6da30f093ff34e32af621e2/tumblr_inline_pcqqtdzBWG1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
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<p>Full article via <a contents="COS" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/07/emma-ruth-rundle-darkhorse-origins/" target="_blank">COS</a><br><br><a href="https://consequenceofsound.net/tag/origins">Origins</a> is a recurring new music feature that tasks an artist with dissecting the influences behind their latest track.</p>
<p>On September 14th, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, the prolific singer/songwriter you may recognize from The Nocturnes, Red Sparowes, and Marriages, will release On Dark Horses, the follow-up to last year’s The Time Between Us EP. Rundle’s previously dropped album opener <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJFjWWrABQ">“Fever Dreams”</a>, and today she shares its follow-up, the thunderingly ominous “Darkhorse”.</p><!-- more -->
<p>As the titles imply, horses worked their way not just into “Darkhorse”, but also the record itself. “They’re powerful and beautiful yet not free really,” she said in a press release. “So the dark horse works for me in a visual way, as a representation of a contained force that will win the race or exceed the expectation of society and self.” She expanded on that sentiment to Consequence of Sound, saying of her new track,</p>
<p>“‘Darkhorse’ was one of the first songs that sprung forth in writing the album and became a focal point, as well as an emotional reference, for the rest of the record, hence the album title. It is written from the perspective of one sibling singing to another. The lyrics describe not just the younger sister, but both sisters struggling to overcome their shared traumatic past, with the chorus exclaiming a sense of pride in having the chance and ability to override the unlucky odds.”</p>
<p>A thoughtful bit of gothic folk, the cut itself punctuates its minor chords with electric currents, lacing Rundle’s sumptuous, wounded vocals with some added emotional heft. “In the wake of weak beginnings, we can still stand high,” she sings, a lyric that speaks to the album’s larger themes about persevering in the wake of a great trauma.</p>
<p>Hear it below, and pre-order On Dark Horses <a href="http://smarturl.it/ERR-ODH">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Offering more insight into the Origins of her new single, Rundle was kind enough to share the songs that directly inspired the construction “Darkhorse”, as well as the ways in which her own past informs her work. Check it out below.</p>
<p>Sun Kil Moon — “Heron Blue”:</p>
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<p>“Darkhorse” was initially written on a classical guitar with the picking pattern in 7/4 becoming an ostenado over which the vocal melody was able to unfold. The style of verse was largely inspired by Mark Kozelek’s writing/playing and I think “Heron Blue” is a perfect example of that. He uses the stark, somber, and repetitive guitar to serve as a compelling foundation for his mournful singing. His music has been a huge influence on me since the release of Ghost of the Great Highway but especially in songs like “Heron Blue” and all the work on Admiral Fell Promises, which is largely the classical guitar vocal.</p>
<p>Tori Amos — “Marianne”:</p>
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<p>I have always been a devoted fan of Tori’s and, while writing this record, I revisited Boys For Pele. Tori has made it okay for me, as a woman, to sing about deeply personal and extreme subjects. She has always been on the forefront of women’s issues. On BFP and in “Marianne” she shines as a master in teasing out a sense of desperation that still moves me decades later. This is a song that exemplifies her abilities; spinning a deeply moving portrait, from her perspective, of the life and struggle of another woman who was simply defeated by herself in the end.</p>
<p>Chris Whitley — “Hotel Vast Horizon”:</p>
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<p>Chris Whitley is a patron saint for me. This man is/was a holy saint of self-sacrifice and humility whose guitar playing was as unique as anything could ever be. He is an artist that I look to a lot when I feel lost, a beacon of something raw and real. The thing about this song that made it’s way into “Darkhorse” was the idea of the “vast horizon” as a destination. The lyric “dark water horizon” indirectly references this song and warns of an unending future, consumed by a place, an ocean of nebulous trouble.</p>
<p>The Past:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This is the part of writing that becomes tricky for me. It is about revealing enough of the story to feel catharsis without fully exposing myself or anyone else. Most of my music deals with, and strives to make sense of, my own life and past, but I’d rather not share specifics. I think its safe to say I have a family situation that will continue to inform my music. The writing process is sometimes an effort to unravel addiction and metal illness issues, and “Darkhorse”, for me, is one of those but has a hopeful intention and message, if you will.</p>
<p>Rundle will also be hitting the road this fall for an epic world tour that will take her throughout North America, Europe, and the UK across a four-month span. See her full itinerary below.</p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle 2018 Tour Dates: <br>09/08 – Chicago, IL @ Ars Memoria * <br>09/15 – Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar + <br>09/16 – Detroit, MI @ El Club + <br>09/17 – Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee’s + <br>09/19 – Portsmouth, NH @ The Press Room + <br>09/20 – Allston, MA @ Great Scott + <br>09/21 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus + <br>09/22 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA + <br>09/23 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery + <br>09/24 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe + <br>09/25 – Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle + <br>09/27 – Davenport, IA @ Figge Art Museum / All Senses Festival <br>09/28 – Rock Island, IL @ Rock Island Brewing Co. <br>10/06 – Lille, FR @ Aeronof + <br>10/07 – Colmar, FR @ Grillen + <br>10/09 – Bermeo, ES @ Beleza Malandra Ateneo Kulturala + <br>10/10 – Oviedo, ES @ Lata de Zinc + <br>10/11 – Porto, PT @ Passos Emanuel + <br>10/12 – Lisbon, PT @ Music Box + <br>10/13 – Madrid, SP @ Change + <br>10/14 – Barcelona, SP @ AMFest 2018 <br>10/16 – Marseille, FR @ Le Molotov + <br>10/17 – Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik + <br>10/18 – Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz + <br>10/19 – Prague, CZ @ Klub 007 + <br>10/20 – Koln, DE @ Gebaude 9 + <br>10/21 – Munchen, DE @ Milla + <br>10/23 – Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu + <br>10/24 – Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang + <br>10/25 – Malmo, SE @ Plan B + <br>10/26 – Oslo, NO @ BLA + <br>10/27 – Stockholm, SE @ Strindbergs Intima + <br>10/28 – Gothenborg, SE @ Skjul Fyra Sex/Skjulet + <br>10/29 – Copenhagen, DK @ Hotel Cecil + <br>10/31 – Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown + <br>11/01 – Groningen, NL @ Vera + <br>11/02 – Paris, FR @ Petit Bain + <br>11/03 – Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen + <br>11/04 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade + <br>11/06 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo + <br>11/07 – Newcastle, UK @ Th Cluny + <br>11/08 – London, UK @ Oslo + <br>11/09 – Kortijk, BEL @ Sonic City Festival <br>11/10 – Antwerp, BEL @ Trix + <br>11/30 – Nashville, TN @ The High Watt + <br>12/01 – Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn + <br>12/03 – Dallas, TX @ Double Wide + <br>12/04 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda + <br>12/06 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister + <br>12/07 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar + <br>12/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo + <br>12/10 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop + <br>12/12 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios + <br>12/13 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza + <br>12/15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court + <br>12/16 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake + <br>12/17 – Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room + </p>
<p>* = Emma Ruth Rundle solo gallery show and On Dark Horses listening party <br>+ = w/ Jaye Jayle</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/53375202018-07-09T11:06:11-07:002018-08-08T13:12:58-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle “Fever Dreams” // Recommended Listen<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="202" data-orig-width="1450"><p style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://recommendedlisten.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/734ed01ec7da40c085a87c960daf91c9/tumblr_inline_pbm265FSgO1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p></figure>
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<p><a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emmaruthrundle.com%2F&t=NTIwODg4NTAzNWY2YTgxMzBmZjVjNzU3YTAzZWM3YjhiZDc0OTcxMyxLZnJvZlhXdw%3D%3D&b=t%3Ac4Culo190QqSXGSMkdgSjA&p=http%3A%2F%2Frecommendedlisten.com%2Fpost%2F175457793773%2Femma-ruth-rundle-fever-dreams&m=0">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> balances doom and gloom in the same way she does a heaviness against a gravity-less air in her music. As the guitarist for the post-metal outfit Red Sparrowes, she wields her heaviest axe, though her weapon of choice is not completely laid to rest in her out work as a solo musician either. Spiritually, it’s gothic in mood and ornate design, whether it’s woven with eerie strands of folk music or whirring into a pitch black sky, and never lands softly. “Fever Dreams”, the first single from her forthcoming album On Dark Horses, ventures into this purgatory of the void Rundle has created for herself. Her voice, classically spectral, is transcendental across the listen, sludging effortlessly through a dense fog of reverb in its first moments, but then finding a life after after in crossing a threshold where the subconscious submits to the atmosphere. “A life spent uneasy, in pieces, always in pieces here / A life left, release me away from fever dreams,” she sings. Organs and guitar halos lift her soul away from this Earth, finally free of whatever has been pushing her away from the air.</p>
<p>(Via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://recommendedlisten.com/post/175457793773/emma-ruth-rundle-fever-dreams" target="_blank">Recommended Listen</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/53248262018-06-29T14:19:49-07:002018-08-08T13:14:04-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle’s “Fever Dreams” On Stereogum’s top 5 songs of the week<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="80" data-orig-width="484"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/d486427a9f614748adc230448ffa078d/tumblr_inline_pb3shfQT6i1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2004184/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-246/franchises/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/164a06f35ce5674db65d458eb56997f5/tumblr_inline_pb3shfzrq51qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/1d55732da103dcf0a33bfddfacf9e49c/tumblr_inline_pb3shgFMsb1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://www.stereogum.com/2003512/emma-ruth-rundle-on-dark-horses-fever-dreams/music/">4. Emma Ruth Rundle – “Fever Dreams”</a></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> makes music that could loosely be termed goth-folk, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Rundle plays in the experimental post-metal band Red Sparowes, and she tends to tour with extreme-music trailblazers like Deafheaven or the Melvins’ King Buzzo. She has heavy music wound through her DNA, and you can hear it all come out on “Fever Dreams,” the first single from her forthcoming LP On Dark Horses. There’s beauty in the song, but it’s a mystic, swirling, vaguely threatening beauty. Guitars, drenched in fuzz and reverb, rise up, as if they’re emerging from some primordial ooze. Organs wail like ancient Greek mourners. And Rundle’s voice floats above the seething morass, graceful and triumphant, an angel welcoming the apocalypse. –Tom</p>
<p>Via <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2004184/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-246/franchises/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/" target="_self">Stereogum</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/53183922018-06-26T11:20:14-07:002018-06-26T11:20:14-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces New Album "On Dark Horses" with single 'Fever Dreams' // Revolver<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/222a40f604a65071d9c90c974f252d26a91cea81/original/screen-shot-2018-06-26-at-11-15-51-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/df6c287a7a32e4f8a162300fa2e4a330cc81d104/original/screen-shot-2018-06-26-at-11-16-03-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p>When she's not fronting the L.A. bands Marriages and the Nocturnes, slinging haunting guitar riffs for post-rock collective Red Sparowes, or creating breathtaking oil paintings, the singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle pursues ornate gothic folk by her lonesome. The past two years have seen her sharing stages with like-minded, heavy-leaning romanticists like Deafheaven, Earth, and Wovenhand, and releasing an excellent album, Marked for Death. Now, she's back with album number three — On Dark Horses, hitting shelves September 14th via Sargent House. She recorded the eight-track, equestrian-themed effort with Wovenhand's Dylan Nadon, plus Evan Patterson and Todd Cook of indie-rock band Jaye Jayle. </p>
<p>Full story via <a contents="Revolver." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-goth-folk-auteur-emma-ruth-rundles-mesmerizing-new-song-fever-dreams" target="_self">Revolver.</a></p>
<hr><p>To accompany the announcement, Rundle has shared the album's stirring first single "Fever Dreams," as well as a massive tour alongside Chelsea Wolfe and Jaye Jayle. That trek will also feature Rundle's first-ever gallery show, taking place September 8th at Chicago, Illinois venue Ars Memoria; it'll double as the 'On Dark Horses' listening party. Find a full itinerary below, as well as the album artwork and track listing. </p>
<p>Pre-order Emma Ruth Rundle's On Dark Horses <a contents="here.&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_self">here. </a></p>
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<p>Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses track listing: </p>
<p>01. "Fever Dreams" <br>02. "Control" <br>03. "Darkhorse" <br>04. "Races" <br>05. "Dead Set Eyes" <br>06. "Light Song" <br>07. "Apathy on the Indiana Border" <br>08. "You Don't Have To Cry"</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/53180902018-06-26T08:16:43-07:002018-06-26T11:14:16-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle and Jaye Jayle announce US/EU/UK 2018 Tour Dates<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/3b6ab2b3b2eefd2464aef28261bcb8127699bec7/original/kristin1.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><a href="emmaruthrundle.com">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has announced US/EU/UK 2018 dates with <a href="sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle">Jaye Jayle</a>. More information <a href="emmaruthrundle.com">here.</a></p>
<p>Dates:</p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle — On Tour: </p>
<p><br>July 3 Nantes, FR @ Le Ferrailleur ~ <br>July 4 Bordeaux, FR @ I-Boat ~ <br>July 5 Lyon, FR @ Sonic~ <br>July 7 Montreux, CH @ Montreux Jazz Festival~ <br>July 8 Stuttgart, DE @ Jube West~ <br>July 9 Karlsruhe , DE @ Jubez * ~ <br>July 10 Esch-Alzette, LUX @ Kulturfabrik *~ <br>July 11 Antwerp, BE @ Kavka ~ <br>July 12 Paris, FRA @ Le Trabendo*~ <br>July 13 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof Museum~ <br>July 14 Augsburg, DE @ Kantine~ <br>September 15 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar + <br>September 16 Detroit, MI @ El Club + <br>September 17 Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee’s + <br>September 19 Portsmouth, NH @ The Press Room + <br>September 20 Allston, MA @ Great Scott + <br>September 21 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus + <br>September 22 Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA + <br>September 23 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery + <br>September 24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe + <br>September 25 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle + <br>October 7 Colmar, FR @ Grillen + <br>October 9 Bermeo, ES @ Beleza Malandra Ateneo Kulturala + <br>October 10 Oviedo, ES @ Lata de Zinc + <br>October 11 Porto, PT @ Passos Emanuel + <br>October 12 Lisbon, PT @ Music Box + <br>October 13 Madrid, ES @ Changó + <br>October 14 Barcelona, ES @ AMFest 2018 <br>October 16 Mersaille, FR @ TBD <br>October 17 Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik + <br>October 18 Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewits + <br>October 19 Prague, CZ @ TBD + <br>October 20 Köln, DE @ Gebade 9 + <br>October 21 München, DE @ Milla + <br>October 23 Berlin, DE @ Bi Nuu + <br>October 24 Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang + <br>October 25 Malmo, SE @ Plan B + <br>October 26 Oslo, NO @ BLÄ + <br>October 27 Stockholm, SE @ Strindbergs Intima + <br>October 28 Gothenborg, SE @ Skjul Fyra Sex/Skjulet + <br>October 29 Copenhagen, DK @ Hotel Cecil + <br>October 31 Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown + <br>November 1 Groningen, NL @ Vera + <br>November 2 Paris, FR @ Petit Bain + <br>November 3 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen + <br>November 4 Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade + <br>November 6 Glasgow, UK @ Stereo + <br>November 7 Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny + <br>November 8 London, UK @ Oslo + <br>November 30 Nashville, TN @ The High Watt + <br>December 1 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn + <br>December 3 Dallas, TX @ Double Wide + <br>December 4 Austin, TX @ Barracuda + <br>December 6 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister + <br>December 7 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar + <br>December 9 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo + <br>December 10 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop + <br>December 12 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios + <br>December 13 Seattle, WA @ Barboza + <br>December 15 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court + <br>December 16 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake + <br>December 17 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room + </p>
<p>~ Solo Shows <br>* w/ Chelsea Wolfe <br>+w/ Jaye Jayle</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/53046322018-06-19T10:38:09-07:002018-06-19T10:38:09-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle at Robert Smith-Curated Meltdown Fest // Revolver<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/2096b77d927095d435dee21475f92844f0b742be/original/screen-shot-2018-06-19-at-10-18-54-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/704925fc6f83e4c50309f98fe9a0e4038c089336/original/screen-shot-2018-06-19-at-10-19-08-am.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/4989c824efa95939bf926a3e2e6b96451b81df81/original/blog-err-revolver.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Curated by the Cure's Robert Smith, Meltdown 2018 is hosting an array of music's most compelling active artists, including the Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Manic Street Preachers, 65daysofstatic and Alcest in London from June 15-24th. Monday (June 18th) the annual music and arts festival featured sets from Death Cab for Cutie, God Is an Astronaut, Planning for Burial and Kentucky-based singer-songwriter <a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_self">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. Rundle is known for her work in soaring post-rock outfits Red Sparowes and Marriages, as well as for her dark, raw solo output, exemplified on 2017's Marked for Death. Photographer Nick Sayers trailed her at Meltdown and captured the evocative shots above and below.</p>
<p>Full story via <a contents="REVOLVER" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.revolvermag.com/music/emma-ruth-rundle-robert-smith%E2%80%93curated-meltdown-fest-see-evocative-photos" target="_self">REVOLVER</a></p>
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<p>Emma Ruth Rundle (solo) has added dates in Europe. More information and tickets here: https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/ </p>
<p>Dates: <br>JUN 17 London, UK @ Meltdown with Alcest <br>JUN 18 London, UK @ Meltdown Festival <br>JUL 08 Stuttgart, DE @ Juha West <br>JUL 09 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez * <br>JUL 10 Esch-Alzette, LUX @ Kulturfabrik * <br>JUL 11 Antwerp, BE @ Kavka <br>JUL 12 Paris, FRA @ Le Trabendo* <br>JUL 13 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof Museum <br>JUL 14 Augsburg, DE @ Kantine </p>
<p>*w. Chelsea Wolfe</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/51739542018-04-10T02:00:00-07:002018-04-10T08:06:25-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle at Robert Smith's Meltdown<p> </p>
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<p>Emma Ruth Rundle (solo) will be performing in London at Robert Smith'sMeltdown Festival on June 17 at QueenElizabeth Hall with Alcest & Headlining on June 18 at The Purcell Room. More information <a contents="here.&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_self">here. </a></p>
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<p>More info @ <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/tour" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
<p>JUL 09 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez +<br>JUL 10 Esch-Alzette, LUX @ Kulturfabrick +<br>JUL 12 Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo +<br>w/ <a href="http://chelseawolfe.net" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a> +</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/51442382018-03-23T10:47:33-07:002018-03-23T11:28:46-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Shows with Young Widows<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1002" data-orig-width="836"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/6bbcccf4ec17ae8e634a152adc0882a4/tumblr_inline_p620oidkRT1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will support <a href="https://www.facebook.com/youngwidowsband/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">Young Widows</a> on their 10th Anniversary of Old Wounds tour. <br>More info @ <a href="https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/new-page-1/" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>
<p>JUN 08 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean<br>JUN 09 Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class<br>JUN 10 Millvale, PA @ The Funhouse<br>JUN 12 Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle<br>JUN 13 Allston, MA @ Great Scott<br>JUN 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/50331542018-01-19T15:18:55-08:002018-02-09T11:00:59-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle // StumpFest 7<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="849" data-orig-width="1152"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/STUMPFEST777/" target="_blank"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c2252bb5635f3e9c25390abba54a3c79/tumblr_inline_p2tso211wx1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_xl justify_inline border_" /></a></figure>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be performing Friday (4/20) in Portland, OR @ StumpFest 7.</p>
<p>More info <a data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/STUMPFEST777/" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/50285582018-01-17T12:40:33-08:002018-01-17T12:40:34-08:00ONE YEAR AFTER MARKED FOR DEATH CVLT NATION INTERVIEWS EMMA RUTH RUNDLE<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/3d680585e8364cc3721776a14ffa228f93d72d47/original/screen-shot-2018-01-17-at-12-08-04-pm.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/638271174e5f07168bc05e20f92312830dec71ef/original/screen-shot-2018-01-17-at-12-08-10-pm.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/f9b7c62f5d7f106ac54319b17dc6ce01870b01d6/original/err.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><a contents="Emma Ruth Rundle" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is one of the best singer-songwriters and guitarists around. Marked for Death, her last album, was released via Sargent House in September 2016. Recording Marked For Death was such an arduous process for Emma and one year later, in Berlin, I talked with her about what has changed since its release. </p>
<p>Marked for Death was released in September 2016. It’s been a bit over a year. How has your career changed since its release? </p>
<p>Full article via <a contents="CVLT NATION." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.cvltnation.com/one-year-marked-death-cvlt-nation-interviews-emma-ruth-rundle/">CVLT NATION.</a></p>
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<p>My career has actually changed a lot since then. When that album came out, Wovenhand took me on a European tour, and since then things have changed a lot. I’m able to come here and play shows like this now, and that’s a huge surprise and very humbling. I don’t think my approach to playing music is so different. I’m able now to tour with a band, whereas before Marked for Death came out, I always toured as a solo artist without any other musicians. That tour with Wovenhand was also solo, just playing guitar and singing. So more recently, I have been taking a band and that has changed how the songs are performed and everything like that. </p>
<p>Do you feel like a different artist after Marked for Death? </p>
<p>I feel that album was important for me to purge a lot of my personal troubles. I think I had a period after the record came out where I felt really changed and transformed, and now I’ve sort of gone back to my old ways and maybe the next record won’t sound so different from this one. </p>
<p>How so? </p>
<p>It’s getting a little heavier I think. But there are some songs that are more hopeful. I think playing with a band is different and more liberating for me. I think there will always still be solo songs, but I can play more lead guitar, which I really miss doing. When it’s just me, I’m playing a more simple style. So in the new album I have more room to play. </p>
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<p>Do you like playing with a band? </p>
<p>I do like playing with a band. But tonight what’s important is to keep playing solo because I think that the emotional content of the music doesn’t come across as well with the band </p>
<p>I had planned to see you in play in Barcelona last year but that show was cancelled. Are you OK now? </p>
<p>Yeah. I was really fucked up. I had a lot x-rays done. I kept getting sick and I had this horrible cough. I think that what happened was that I tore a muscle while coughing and it caused an inflammation in my shoulder and chest. So I went to the hospital three different times on that tour. I went on steroids and tried to stay on the tour. Finally, I just couldn’t do it. I had the band, but when they went home I was touring alone, trying to carry everything on my own and I couldn’t lift my arm. It was a nightmare. So I went home and took three or four months for my ribs to heal. </p>
<p>Marked for Death was about personal issues and darkness. Do you feel the same way now? </p>
<p>I feel that some of the issues that I have struggled with and are themes in Marked for Death are still things that I’m battling. But I think that as I get older and the more that I’m doing this, some things have fallen away, some things have been resolved, some things have become stronger and some things remain the same. </p>
<p>Are you working on anything right now? </p>
<p>Yeah, there’s a new record.</p>
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<p>We heard the song that your wrote a year ago here in Berlin. Can you tell us more about it? </p>
<p>I came to Berlin to rehearse for the Wovenhand tour and I stayed here for a couple of weeks with some friends. I had a lot of time, especially on that tour because I was opening. I could walk around and I found myself playing the acoustic guitar a lot and I was just very inspired by being in Berlin and I wrote that song. I love it here. That song is kind of more of an acoustic solo song. I think a lot of the record has more instrumentation and there’s more of a post-rock element to it. But we’ll see. </p>
<p>What inspires your lyrics? </p>
<p>The new song that I played tonight called “Gilded Cage” is partially about some artists I know and it’s also about this division in human being, this us-and-them kind of idea, about overcoming these stresses and how none of these things will ultimately derail you. I don’t know, I think the theme of overcoming something and redemption is very important to me, acknowledging the personal struggles that people have and then finding a way to get over it. I think especially in the US right now with the political situation. I don’t write political music but that song had a little bit to do with that. </p>
<p>Where did you find the strength to talk about something so personal? </p>
<p>I spent two months in the desert drinking. There’s a desert called Pinion Hills near LA, about an hour and a half away. And my record label, Sargent House, had a house there. There’s nothing glamorous about this place. It’s very bleak. And I think I just sat there for many days, sort of getting very deeply in touch with some of the things I needed to figure out. I was drinking a lot at the time, and the day we started recording I completely quit drinking for six months and made the record. It was intense. </p>
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<p>What’s the creation process of your songs like? </p>
<p>The beginning of a song always starts with the guitar: a riff, or a chord or a picking pattern that inspires the beginning of a song. And then there’s something that I need to sing about, and that’s how it works. </p>
<p>Do you have an album or a song from your childhood that you feel emotionally connected to? </p>
<p>My favorite record of all times is Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins. I love that record. I still listen to it all the time. I’ve been listening to it since I was 12 years old and I love the guitar playing on that record. So that’s my go-to answer because I still listen to it all the time. There’s a lot of different music that we’ve all listened to growing up, but I think that’s my favorite rock record, my favorite guitar playing. If it wasn’t for that record I probably wouldn’t play guitar. </p>
<p>Do you have any memories linked to that album? </p>
<p>I think it was a nostalgic time, like when you first fall in love. Also it was when I first got a guitar, so I was sitting there trying to play along to the record. People make fun of me a lot. Stephen Brodsky will text me links to Billy Corgan things. It’s a constant source of humor for everybody. </p>
<p>My favorite song from your last album is “Real Big Sky.” You sing, “When they broke your body, the broke your mind but with broken spirits you have always tried.” What inspired this song? </p>
<p>This song (and I feel comfortable saying this because I don’t think he’ll ever see this) is really about my father. My father was shot by the police in 1969. He was shot in many different places at a protest. He’s still alive, obviously, because I am here. He’s a deeply spiritual person and he’s also legally blind because of a degenerative eye disease. So part of the lyrics are about him and part of them are about my grandmother, who also raised me and who I think about a lot. But it’s really about my father. </p>
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<p>Do you think that being a woman in this society is hard? </p>
<p>Fuck yes. It is fucking hard as fuck. And you know what? We got this. We can do this. But it makes me mad. It’s really hard. I’ve been playing in bands for 10 years and I’m always the only woman on tour. There are plenty of amazing women doing this and I’m not saying that I’m the only one. And there’s a lot going on, I don’t want to derail anybody else’s struggle and I feel very lucky to be living in the “free world,” but the way that it’s hard is so insidious. It’s not entirely obvious to everyone. It’s just subtle. And it’s not all the time; sometimes it’s wonderful. There are just certain things that I can’t necessarily describe, but it’s true. </p>
<p>So what do you think about the female music scene?</p>
<p>So this is the other part of it. What I feel is that I don’t personally get too invested. I think the progressive thing to do is to not take the sides of male and female and just like what you like and support what you want to. I’ve thought about this and I’ve asked myself if I should find an all female band, if that would be the most forward-thinking thing to do. But at the same time, I have these people that I’m so connected with and that I love and that issue doesn’t exist in my band or in my world. </p>
<p>I think it’s great that in 2017 all these women who are playing around the world are inspiring. For example, Chelsea Wolfe is a friend of mine and she is a fucking badass lady. She’s an incredible songwriter and a very strong woman and I have the utmost respect for her. It makes me so happy to see that someone like that can make art and be supported. I think it’s a positive thing. And you see a lot of support from men in the scene as well. I think our scene is actually pretty good in that regard. </p>
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<p>The first time I saw the cover of Marked for Death, I was surprised by the natural way in which you show yourself before the camera: no makeup, no particular poses. Do you think that presenting yourself as you are to your audience is your way to be real? </p>
<p>Yes, absolutely. I took that photo myself when I was out there in the desert writing. It was very important to me with this record, especially in the song “Real Big Sky,” that it was really honest, really from my heart and as true as it could be because that’s what I have, that’s what I’m able to give and do. My music brings something that is very human, and a very real experience. </p>
<p>Not everyone was a fan of this idea when I said that was the artwork, it’s from when I was writing the record there. I wrote the record there and then the engineer came with his material and recorded me in the same place where I wrote it. And I took that photo and it was just important to me. There’s a lot of beauty and sexualization of things as well, which is very depressing and it’s something that women have to deal with in this world and that men don’t really have to worry too much about. And that’s bullshit. So, that’s who I was at the time and it’s important that that is what the art is. </p>
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<p>How important is the connection with your audience. </p>
<p>To me it has become more important. I think I’ve played so many tours opening that I became very used to having no connection at times. And this makes you hardened in a certain way. But doing my own tours it’s important to me. Like the thing tonight with the PA not working; it’s like, I want to give the song the emotion it should have. And with all this shit in the way it’s not going to happen, you’re singing into this unnatural thing. It’s important for that moment to happen for me and for everyone that’s there and is willing to be open to listening to this kind of music that that kind of connection can happen. </p>
<p>What does someone expect when they go to one of your shows? </p>
<p>I don’t know. It depends on whether I’m with a band or solo, but I think you can expect to have a real human experience. We’re not here to put on a show with light and all that shit. It’s just music and something from the heart. That’s it. </p>
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<p>Could you please give some advice to any young female musician or any band that wants to play personal music or write intimate lyrics? </p>
<p>I would say just be real and be honest about whatever it is. No matter how mundane something is, if it’s truly what you’re feeling and you write about it, then it’s going to translate. And the other thing I would say, especially to female musicians—because I’ve played with a lot of bands and I’ve been touring for 10 years—you must never give up and you must value yourself enough to pursue what it is that you do and just keep going. And there may be many years where no one cares, but it doesn’t matter if that’s your passion. </p>
<p>Is there any artist or band that you would like to collaborate with right now? Dead or alive. </p>
<p>I’m not that great at collaborating. But I’ve started collaborating with Jaye Jayle. So I recorded a lot on their record, and that was great. I did some work with Dylan Carlson and we’re probably going to tour together in 2018. I don’t know… collaborating is so hard because I’m kind of nervous and introverted so if I wasn’t shy… I’m not sure. I have to think about that more. Maybe Nick Drake would be my first choice actually. </p>
<p>And what do you see in your future as an artist? </p>
<p>Well, I see the future of the next record, which I’m very excited about, and putting out an acoustic EP. At some point I would like to retire from touring so much and do some more painting and be at home. Have a family some day. Who knows.</p>
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<h2>Having Some Power Troubles: Emma Ruth Rundle Interviewed </h2>
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<p>In the final week of her grueling twelve-week tour, rock musician and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle speaks to Emma Madden about alcoholism, the next record and fans who cross the line</p>
<p>“Having some power troubles”, Emma Ruth Rundle texts around the time we’re due for our chat. Thank God, I think. I really, really need to piss. I go upstairs and see her on the way to the toilet. “Oh hi!” she says, and we hug. “Sorry, I need to pee. One sec.”</p>
<p>Article by Emma Madden via <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/23866-emma-ruth-rundle-interview">The Quietus</a></p>
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<p>We meet again shortly after, downstairs in the pub she’s playing at in Brighton. Her bandmates are swigging cans of Kronenbourg, while Emma sips a glass of Diet Coke. The sensible choice is startling. Her previous album, <i>Marked For Death</i> may not have existed without its base of store bought booze - not in its final form, anyway.</p>
<p>The album saw her ‘spinning out into a bottle’, confronting the edge of death, praying to a God she’s not sure she believes in to try and redeem her. There’s no final proverb. Someone felt like shit and they made an album about it. There’s defiance in that. In the age of self-care, musicians are valued for their ability to overcome dysfunctional coping mechanisms and to recover.</p>
<p>So, what about the listener who can’t? In the mire of drinks, drugs, dysfunctional relationships, these people will find that there’s only so much that others can withstand. Friends can’t be enablers, lovers can’t be nurses, parents don’t live forever. Emma’s music provides them with an ongoing assistant to their pain. Both on record and sat in front of me, it’s clear that her heart is immense. She’s sensitive to everyone around her, she offers me American Spirit cigarettes, she takes a sip of Diet Coke.</p>
<p><b>I feel like now is a good time to talk to you, because we’re in that time between your last record and the next thing. Do you have an idea of what that’s going to be yet?</b></p>
<p>Emma Ruth Rundle: I’m going to be recording a new record and going into the studio in March. I have a whole album’s worth of new material. So the idea is to do the record with a full band and then on top of that I’d like to do a shorter release of just acoustic songs, more raw and guitar-focused pieces.</p>
<p><b>What do the new songs sound like?</b></p>
<p>ERR: They’re long and it’s kind of more post rock than what I’ve released before. I think that’ll surprise people. If post rock elements existed in my music before, it’s kind of gone to another level now.</p>
<p><b>There are some noticeable changes in you from when you were last touring in the UK eight months ago. For one, you seem to be drinking less.</b></p>
<p>ERR: Yep, now before I go on I just drink these fake beers instead of starting early. I am still drinking, and I begin around the time the second act starts playing.</p>
<p><b>Why wait until then?</b></p>
<p>ERR: Because if I start early, I won’t be able to stop and I’ll be completely fall-down drunk by the time I start to play.</p>
<p><b>Why aren’t you able to stop?</b></p>
<p>ERR: I think it’s called alcoholism, I’m not sure [laughs]</p>
<p><b>You’ve been through bouts of sobriety. What’s that like?</b></p>
<p>ERR: It’s really intense, it’s stressful. I think it’s necessary. I’m a conflicted person in that way, in that it’ll just get to a certain level where it has to stop.</p>
<p><b>When you write a record like <i>Marked For Death</i>, which is so personal, the listening experience can feel undeservedly intimate. Most of us are strangers to you, yet we’ve been given a window into your own personal pain.</b></p>
<p>ERR: I think that’s a natural reaction. When the music is intense and emotionally heavy, it connects with people in that way, and sometimes in an unhealthy way. I mean, I don’t ever wanna say anything that would put any of my fans off, because it means the world to me that anyone listens to my music, and that it means something to them.</p>
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<p><b>In terms of your arc, both as a songwriter and as a human being, do you feel a pressure to make the next album positive and hopeful?</b></p>
<p>ERR: Yeah, in terms of longevity, in my health and my own life I need to find a way to focus less on super negative things, but I do think that one of the themes in my music is hope, and I don’t think that’s unhealthy.</p>
<p><b>How about a pressure to appeal to a narrative of resilience and recovery?</b></p>
<p>ERR: I think I’d have to go through a very complicated thought process to answer that question. It is the sort of thing that I think about a lot, and I do feel some pressure in some way. But at the end of the day, the songs that I’ve written… I don’t know. I’m not ever gonna be ashamed for how I am and how I will be. I mean, obviously there’s still a struggle with the amount of drinking I do, but I think these are lifelong struggles for certain people.</p>
<p><b>What’s the draw towards drinking?</b></p>
<p>ERR: It’s the best painkiller on Earth.</p>
<p><b>You experience a lot of physical pain as well, don’t you?</b></p>
<p>ERR: I actually haven’t in a while. I had a surgery last year that really helped me. [she pauses] I don’t know. I have a load of crazy thoughts. In terms of this year, I’ve just been trying to get through it. I think I have a deep desire to have more of a structure and a self-disciplined approach to living. I don’t think I’m capable of exacting that while I’m on tour like this. It’s kind of like, you do whatever you can to get through it. Drink, eat a million french fries.</p>
<p><b>Will you be with your family at the end of this tour?</b></p>
<p>ERR: I’m not sure. If I go to Oregon I’ll be with my sister. I actually went on a tour with her. She was selling the merch and helping me, and I would sing that song [‘Sarah’, a song dedicated her] and people started talking to her and wanting to know about her personal life. It began to freak her out. I used to put her on my social media and people would follow her on there and at shows. So, I completely stopped performing that song at shows and I stopped discussing who my songs are about. It’s one thing when people cross my personal boundaries, because that happens every single day, but it’s another when they do it to my family and friends. I’ve gotta protect those people.</p>
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<p><b>How do you deal with it when people cross that line?</b></p>
<p>ERR: It’s difficult. You have to be gracious and available to the people who wanna talk, so that you’re doing a service to the people who are listening to your music. But you can’t engage with or entertain behaviour that crosses a line. It ranges from somebody just wanting to give you a hug, to people writing me completely destroying, strange letters about some very deep story between us that isn’t real. It’s getting to a point, and I’m not sure if it’s just exhaustion from tour [sighs] yeah.</p>
<p><b>Yeah</b></p>
<p>ERR: Yeah.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/50139062018-01-08T14:40:00-08:002018-04-02T05:47:10-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle // Northwest Terror Fest 2018<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1728" data-orig-width="1296"><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/61a4b01f06f64f2eadac63ae8531b5ff/tumblr_inline_p29dgpcQRn1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p></figure>
<p><a href="https://emmaruth-rundle.squarespace.com/" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is performing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/northwestterrorfest/?fref=mentions" target="_blank">Northwest Terror Fest</a> 2018 on June 2 on the Neumo’s Stage. </p>
<p>Ticket <a href="http://ticketf.ly/2mcz4z4" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/49737602017-12-12T10:35:05-08:002018-02-09T11:02:59-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Live Session // AudioTree Presents: Far Out<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="217" data-orig-width="1500"><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/d6e2cd3ccc2cc8721c9febf2ead3e9b2/tumblr_inline_p0v1x5Tb3y1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>
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<p>Emma Ruth Rundle performs “HEAVEN” and “PROTECTION” at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel.</p>
<p>Via <a href="https://audiotree.tv/farout/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">AudioTree</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/49449442017-11-22T13:37:20-08:002017-11-22T13:46:05-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle X Jaye Jayle // European Winter Tour<p><img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c8d400eb9fec56e3a0d72aa47108c548/tumblr_ozu9e83ohB1sq4l05o1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> begins her European Winter Tour with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> tomorrow.</p>
<p>Nov 23 Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver<br>Nov 24 Paris, FR @ Espace B<br>Nov 25 Winterthur, CH @ Gaswerk!<br>Nov 27 Wien, AT @ Arena<br>Nov 28 Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara<br>Nov 29 Lubiana, SL @ Kino Saskia<br>Nov 30 Budapest, HU @ A38<br>Dec 01 Linz, AT @ Kapu<br>Dec 02 Stuttgart, DE @ Juha<br>Dec 03 Leipzig, DE @ Ut Connewitz<br>Dec 05 Berlin, DE @ Kantine Berghain<br>Dec 06 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez<br>Dec 07 Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom<br>Dec 08 Arnhem NL @ Willemeen<br>Dec 09 Utrchet, NL @ Ekko<br>Dec 10 Bruxelles, BE @ Brass<br>Dec 12 Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert<br>Dec 13 Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana<br>Dec 14 Glasgow, UK @ Nice N Sleazy<br>Dec 15 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen<br>Dec 16 London, UK @ Bush Hall</p>
<p>More info <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/49341122017-11-15T14:38:24-08:002017-11-15T14:38:24-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Full Band European Tour with Jaye Jayle starts soon<p> </p>
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<p> <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> (full band) will be returning to Europe with Jaye Jayle. More info and ticket links <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>NOV 23 Leffinge, BE @ De Zwerver<br>NOV 24 Paris, FR @ Espace B<br>NOV 25 Winterthur, CH @ Gaswerk!<br>NOV 27 Wien, AT @ Arena<br>NOV 28 Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara<br>NOV 29 Lubiana, SI @ Kino Saskia<br>NOV 30 Budapest, HU @ A38<br>DEC 01 Linz, AT @ Kapu<br>DEC 02 Stuttgart, DE @ Juha<br>DEC 03 Leipzig, DE @ Ut Connewitz<br>DEC 05 Berlin, DE @ Kantine Berghain<br>DEC 06 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez<br>DEC 07 Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom<br>DEC 08 Arnhem NL @ Willemeen<br>DEC 09 Utrchet, NL @ Ekko<br>DEC 10 Bruxelles, BE @ Brass<br>DEC 12 Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert<br>DEC 13 Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana<br>DEC 14 Glasgow, UK @ Nice N Sleazy<br>DEC 15 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen<br>DEC 16 London, UK @ Bush Hall</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/48857342017-10-10T14:48:13-07:002017-10-10T14:49:24-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Tour Starts Today<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1332" data-orig-width="1066"><img src="//78.media.tumblr.com/16574ba686d43b51caef72692dd01705/tumblr_inline_oxmn797sUx1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Don’t miss <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> on tour with <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fturnoverva%2F%3Ffref%3Dmentions&t=ZTA4MjA5MjdkN2FkOWZlY2QxOTVhYjIyYTEzYWI4MjI5MWNhZWE4OCwxUWlDZFV6Rg%3D%3D&b=t%3Afk77Djt1kEIFw73tddXyhg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmarriagesband.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F166235508727%2Femma-ruth-rundle-tour-starts-tomorrow&m=1" target="_blank">Turnover</a> and <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Felvisdepressedly%2F%3Ffref%3Dmentions&t=ZjM0ZDlhNDNjZWU4YWRlZWYwNGUzZWYxMmY3ZDMzZjIzMDhhZTQxZCwxUWlDZFV6Rg%3D%3D&b=t%3Afk77Djt1kEIFw73tddXyhg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmarriagesband.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F166235508727%2Femma-ruth-rundle-tour-starts-tomorrow&m=1" target="_blank">Elvis Depressedly</a> starting 10/10. Shows are selling out so get your tickets and come early she plays first with full band.</p><p>Oct 10 Washington DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel<br>Oct 11 Richmond, VA @ Broadberry<br>Oct 12 Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle<br>Oct 13 Orlando, FL @ The Social - SOLD OUT <br>Oct 14 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum<br>Oct 15 Lake Park, FL @ Kelsey Theater<br>Oct 17 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Hell<br>Oct 18 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In<br>Oct 20 Houston, TX @ White Oak<br>Oct 21 Austin, TX @ Baracuda<br>Oct 22 Dallas, TX @ Trees<br>Oct 24 Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent<br>Oct 25 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour<br>Oct 26 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour<br>Oct 27 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic<br>Oct 28 Pomona, CA @ Glasshouse<br>Oct 29 San Fran, CA @ The Chapel - SOLD OUT <br>Oct 30 Oakland, CA @ Starline Social Club<br>Oct 31 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater<br>Nov 1 Seattle, WA @ Neumos<br>Nov 3 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex<br>Nov 4 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall<br>Nov 5 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck<br>Nov 7 DeKalb, IL @ House Cafe<br>Nov 8 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club<br>Nov 9 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave<br>Nov 10 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall<br>Nov 11 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick<br>Nov 12 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom<br>Nov 13 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom<br>Nov 14 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club<br>Nov 16 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom<br>Nov 17 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br>Nov 18 Philly, PA @ The TLA<br>Nov 19 Boston, MA @ Royale</p><p>EUROPEAN TOUR with <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjayejayle%2F%3Ffref%3Dmentions&t=M2FhNzY5NjNiYjE1M2UyY2YxZTkyNDFhZGQ2NjVjZmFlNzYyZjU4MywxUWlDZFV6Rg%3D%3D&b=t%3Afk77Djt1kEIFw73tddXyhg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmarriagesband.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F166235508727%2Femma-ruth-rundle-tour-starts-tomorrow&m=1" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> see all dates at: <br><a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Femmaruthrundle.com%2F&t=MWIwNmRkMGE2YWE0MDBkOGIzMjlmZmFjN2E1YWIyNmEwYWRlYzJhMiwxUWlDZFV6Rg%3D%3D&b=t%3Afk77Djt1kEIFw73tddXyhg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmarriagesband.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F166235508727%2Femma-ruth-rundle-tour-starts-tomorrow&m=1" target="_blank">emmaruthrundle.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/48002762017-08-02T11:17:50-07:002017-08-02T11:24:14-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces Performance at Dunk! USA 2017<figure data-orig-width="1280" data-orig-height="1280" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/ff928a851b22642c2117f65639c9158a/tumblr_inline_ou2lf4s3k31rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>More info <a href="https://www.dunkfestival.be/usa/#line-up-us" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47768542017-07-12T14:42:01-07:002017-07-12T14:47:50-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Live Review // Willamette Week<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="2194" data-orig-width="2273"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/4b335f3d9b7ca2f0402ab74130192f3c/tumblr_inline_oszywrYnxt1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47579882017-06-26T11:11:44-07:002017-06-26T14:11:19-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces US Tour w/ Turnover and Elvis Depressedly<figure data-orig-width="1000" data-orig-height="1200" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/84ed46de27e87e9d29e8752121fc6f85/tumblr_inline_os6293FBID1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> Announces US Fall Tour with <a href="http://www.turnovermusic.net" target="_blank">Turnover</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elvisdepressedly/" target="_blank">Elvis Depressedly</a>. Go here for <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">tickets</a>. </p><!-- more --><p><b></b></p><p><b>TURNOVER // ELVIS DEPRESSEDLY // EMMA RUTH RUNDLE FALL 2017</b><br>10/10 Washington DC - Rock N Roll Hotel<br>10/11 Richmond, VA - Broadberry<br>10/12 Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle<br>10/13 Orlando, FL - The Social<br>10/14 Tampa, FL - The Orpheum<br>10/15 Lake Park, FL - Kelsey Theater<br>10/17 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Hell<br>10/18 Nashville, TN - Exit/In<br>10/19 Houston, TX - White Oak<br>10/21 Austin, TX - Baracuda<br>10/22 Dallas, TX - Trees<br>10/24 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent<br>10/25 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour<br>10/26 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour<br>10/27 San Diego, CA - The Irenic<br>10/28 Pomona, CA - The Glsashouse<br>10/29 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel<br>10/31 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater<br>11/01 Seattle, WA - Neumos<br>11/03 SLC, UT - The Complex<br>11/04 Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall<br>11/05 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck<br>11/07 DeKalb, IL - House Cafe<br>11/08 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock<br>11/09 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave<br>11/10 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall<br>11/11 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick<br>11/12 Cleveland, OH - Agora Ballroom<br>11/13 Buffalo, NY - Waiting Room<br>11/14 Toronto, ON - Mod Club<br>11/16 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom<br>11/17 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg<br>11/18 Philadelphia, PA - The TLA<br>11/19 Boston, MA - Royale</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47196812017-05-23T14:50:54-07:002017-05-23T14:52:29-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Live Review // Mutual Grimness<figure data-orig-width="604" data-orig-height="104" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e67a76288197f9d56d47ce84589a0a4d/tumblr_inline_oqfdx3yDGp1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="816" data-orig-height="120" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/52f8b08ead4d9cbfc9629dacf0819d24/tumblr_inline_oqfdx5q55I1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1600" data-orig-height="1093" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/9ca911a9206877b07ab63f98c16b379a/tumblr_inline_oqfdy8fu8f1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>They say never meet your heroes. Meet your heroines instead! Known also for Marriages and Red Sparowes, <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has fully realised herself in a solo singer-songwriter territory. Atmospheric ballads by Emma conquer hearts and ears of Danish extreme music fans. Thematically focussing on grief, self-destruction, death, Rundle provides her comfort with shoe-gazey melodies. Supported by a band that includes Jaye Jayle, she sounds mature and heavy. Red Sparowes’-like soundscapes are stripped down only for ‘Shadows of my name’ - a triumphant finale that leaves everyone with their jaws on the floor.<br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47196822017-05-23T11:59:36-07:002017-05-23T14:52:29-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle // CVLT Nation Interview<figure data-orig-height="107" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/3ed1e2fe89c40a9225db866e401b9f4b/tumblr_inline_oqf5w5aaLd1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1022" data-orig-width="1504"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/629081bfbe9398a0e87a292a3849dc1d/tumblr_inline_oqf5we4GYK1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has paid her dues in bands like <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> and <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> and late last year released her solo album Marked For Death. I caught up with Emma after catching her powerfully moving set at Masquerade in Atlanta when she rolled through with <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and <a href="http://thiswilldestroyyou.net" target="_blank">This Will Destroy You</a>. We talked about the new album, the tour and the sate of the union when it comes to women’s roles in the country and music. It went something like this.<br></p><!-- more --><p>How has the tour been so far?</p><p>Amazing; I mean, I could not ask for more. I love Deafheaven, and I try to watch This Will Destroy you every night. I think as a tour it’s an interesting mix of styles. The response has been great, there is a sense of community and everyone has been very respectful.</p><p>How it been playing to Deafheaven’s audiences? </p><p>I seem to always play with metal bands since Marriages; before this I went out with Alcest. There a lot of female artists going on the road with metal bands, like Marissa Nadler is going on tour with Ghost, so I think it’s important to have a female presence in that scene.</p><p>In the transition from Marriages with your last album “Salome” to your new solo album “Marked For Death,” the song writing has evolved, and the arrangements have become more open and allow for you to really cut through and sing more, so how has the evolution come about for you as a singer?</p><p>With Kitsune, my voice has going through effects and I used it more like an instrument. So it was very purposeful to make Salome more song-based. In the past we would argue about there being too much reverb on the vocals, so for Marked For Death the vocals are very present. On the last album, I very much wanted the songs to stand on there own. It required having a full band, so rather than before when I was alone this is the first tour where I have gone out with a full band.</p><p>Is there a lyrical theme to “Marked For Death”?</p><p>It’s not conceptual like some of the Marriages albums could be seen as being. It’s very autobiographical. It not storytelling, so not always literal, but I wanted to be honest with where I was at.</p><p>When I listen to “Marked For Death” it reminds me of 90’s alternative at times – was that one of your influences while making the record? </p><p>I love when people say that – it often gets called folk or whatever, and to me it’s grunge. I grew up with it. Siamese Dream is my all time favorite album and I still listen to it.</p><p>I can hear traces of Veruca Salt or Tori Amos…</p><p>Tori Amos is a goddess. PJ Harvey is certainly and influence. I mean when I was a kid learning to play guitar those were the albums I listened to.</p><p>I saw on Twitter that you were digging into Janes Addiction, what album are you most into – “Nothing’s Shocking” or “Ritual”?</p><p>Actually the live one Kettle Whistle. We listen to a lot of different stuff on tour, but going back through all those albums and even Porno For Pyros.</p><p>The video for the “Distance” is pretty striking; it brings to mind David Lynch, like a dream sequence from Twin peaks</p><p>It was meant to be that way. I actually shot it in my bedroom. I did a photo shoot for the cover of the album and we had these pictures, so I used those, then lip synched to the song. I created this character from the images, who I see as a ice skating princess created this world around it. So there is this story I created in my mind for the album, which is a love story between the two characters. It was a nice escape to do something fantastical after the more serious tone of Marked For Death, so to feel the escape of a fantasy world rather than broken down and drained was a nice change of pace.</p><p>Do you draw influence from things other than music like movies or visual art ?</p><p>Not for songwriting; maybe making videos, the songs were written me drinking wine and smoking cigarettes out in the desert.</p><p>As you have been touring the States what kind of tone have you noticed in regards to the current state of things? </p><p>I am not sure if you saw that I made these Donald Trump shirts I am selling at the merch booth, and all the proceeds from those will go to Planned Parenthood. Then from the other art I am selling, the proceeds go to the ACLU. I think This Will Destroy You is also doing something similar, where the proceeds are going to the ACLU. There are a lot of musicians who are getting involved on that level. I didn’t get to go to the Women’s March, but I want to contribute. I want to do more. At first I had to stop listening to the news. I had to stop thinking; I was not sleeping, it was a nightmare. There is a general malaise. People feel downtrodden. They are afraid and angry. But there is more of a chance to talk. There are women coming together. There are dialogues going on. I need to stay more informed; I now follow all the news, I’ll even listen to info war, just to hear where these people are coming from and not in a shitty way. I am just trying to make sense of it.</p><p>Well, I think when everything went down people were surprised, because everyone had been living in their own social media bubbles. Unaware there was a world of people who had other thoughts.</p><p>Yeah, living in an artists community surrounded by people who are more liberal, I can see that. I was in Portland after the election, and people were out in the streets. I just send my money to people who can make a change. I just want to do more.</p><p>I think playing music and bringing people together in a positive fashion is pretty powerful, lets talk something more positive like music. What new music are digging these days? </p><p>The Body, Brave/ Young, Emily Jane White.<br><br>Have you heard the new King Woman? </p><p>Yes, it’s great there is some much good stuff going on for Christina [Esfandiari]. She’s a friend of mine and has a project called Miserable that is awesome as well. There is a magazine called She Shreds which is doing great things; we didn’t have anything like that when I was a kid trying to play guitar. There was Guitar World, and when they had girls on the cover they were in bikinis.</p><p>And I think from an energetic standpoint, that has to be good for balancing out things. Like you said, the presence of women in the metal community is a positive thing.</p><p>The young girls wanted to talk to me about this band they are starting, and I think it was great. There is more support for women in music.</p><p>Via <a href="http://www.cvltnation.com/interview-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">CVLT Nation.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47099742017-05-15T13:36:40-07:002017-05-15T17:16:47-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Ft. Jaye Jayle in session // BBC Radio 1 Rock Show<figure data-orig-width="958" data-orig-height="182" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/8e67fa1800d688aeca21299a82cc1225/tumblr_inline_oq0g94FPfz1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="2082" data-orig-height="1168" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/2303a9738aab404b297d65e66db96775/tumblr_inline_oq0gavICzV1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Emma Ruth Rundle featuring Jaye Jayle in session from Maida Vale.<br></p><p>Listen to the full episode <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q2w2h" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47071502017-05-12T15:53:50-07:002017-05-12T18:06:07-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Roadburn Review // Invisible Oranges<figure data-orig-width="250" data-orig-height="70"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/525f3e8963fc06d8d7b7743578ba459d/tumblr_inline_opv3dfbeX81rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1538" data-orig-height="1012" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/14f270ab0d876e10643068e785846db8/tumblr_inline_opv3gbSOgL1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> delivered arguably the most stripped down and vulnerable set of the festival. Her vocal inflections stab like needles into unsuspecting listeners who might just end up crying, or at the very least staring at her incredulously. </p><!-- more --><p>Uninhibited in a way that’s rare even for a solo performer, Rundle plays guitar like she sings: with some words and chords barely there and others barreling at us. When she sang her lyric Who else would ever stay? in “Marked for Death”, she momentarily removed her hands from the guitar and turned up her palms to gesture her curiosity. And the audience hangs on to her every move, because every detail means something in the story she tells.</p><p>For full photoset visit <a href="http://www.invisibleoranges.com/roadburn-2017-day-four/#photogallery-2=2" target="_blank">Invisible Oranges</a>. <br><br><br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/47066712017-05-12T10:50:47-07:002017-05-12T12:06:32-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Conversation w/ The 405<figure data-orig-width="250" data-orig-height="88"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/ae5b8eb86f82066c567c8db435a5c2f7/tumblr_inline_opupbec8pN1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="970" data-orig-height="646" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/9b89500382b6b70cf1642c53ef704711/tumblr_inline_opupbjD9Yq1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>It’s a particularly cold and cruel April evening in London.</p><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is in front of a sold-out crowd, “Hi, I’m Emma” she says in a voice that flutters with nervousness. She sings about shame, defective love, mortality… and the audience are so enraptured that there’s no need for an amp or microphone for her final song, ’<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/real-big-sky" target="_blank">Real Big Sky</a>’. There’s no sound save for her, a single tiny beeping and beating light, and intermittent sniffling.</p><p>I’m uncertain of what we’re all sharing here, but each of us in the audience stands singular and silent - reduced to total dumbness. Although it’s not something anyone should be burdened with - perhaps what Emma is showing us is a window of hope. That an original sin can be transcended, that our terrible ineptitude can be rectified, that the cyclical nature of bad behaviour can be abated. She’s rendered darkness visible, but there comes a point when one must disinherit dysfunction, and latch onto new, healthier ways of living. She’s yet to get there, but neither have many of us either.</p><!-- more --><p>She steps off the stage both exhausted and invigorated, ready to repeat the experience each night on her seemingly never-ending European tour. I spoke with her a couple of hours before this moment.</p><p>I’ve noticed several references to Medusa, especially in your latest album - and she features on this tour poster. What’s the significance?</p><p>I get asked about religion and mythology in my music a lot, and it’s something that’s personal to me. But with Medusa, it’s the concept of someone who was once beautiful but who has been turned into a monster, that no one can be close to because of what’s happened to them - a sort of descent from beauty into ugliness that then turns others away.</p><p>You also sing in ‘Hand of God’ that you 'wear the colours of Babylon’ - is this a similar concept?</p><p>She’s [the Whore of Babylon] more like the opposition to the Virgin Mary. There’s this kind of duality that can exist within one person. It’s a song about a shame of sexuality and love, and there’s a longing for some kind of redemption for the things that have gone on, or for the things that I’ve done. But I believe that that character is also powerful, and that’s also a reference to what we as people have done; taking over the earth, pillaging nature.</p><p>There seems like there’s an urgent need to transcend on Marked for Death. You talk about how 'the Earth is your church’, and you’re trying to overcome that and reach out for God</p><p>I struggle with the cyclical nature of behaviour and elements of oneself, and even knowing that they exist, you still can’t overcome them. A lot of what I talk about has to do with mortality, and it’s not metaphorical, I’ve lost some very close people. I think what I strive to do with my music is to be completely honest and transparent without telling people the actual details of my personal life, but that’s what matters to me when making music, that it comes straight from the heart. I don’t write music about made-up characters. The music has to be emotionally impactful. I find myself writing in very extreme situations to get to these places.</p><p>You’re doing a dutiful thing here - in that people can project their own experiences onto the vagueness and broadness of the feeling that your music creates.</p><p>It is that ability as a listener - to place your own experience over what someone else is going through.</p><p>A consistency throughout your music, is the theme of staying in a situation which is bad or unhealthy for - but remaining in it because it feels safe. Will this continue?</p><p>I don’t know, it depends on what happens in my life. After the recording of Marked for Death, I was experiencing a time of release - 'OK, I’ve ended a chapter’. This record was going to be the end of that dark chapter for me. I’m going to pick myself up and start living, and start doing things that are good for my heart and my soul, and I don’t have to keep making this kind of music anymore, and I don’t have to be feeling this way. And there was a time, last spring when I was playing guitar and I was feeling really hopeful. Part of the curse of playing music for a living is that you have to go out and repeat the words of what you were going through and to do a performance that’s honest, you have to be in that feeling and in that time. I go through phases of drinking a lot, I go through phases of sobriety, constantly this flux. It suffers when you have to tour a lot; it’s like taking a step back. There was a time when I thought I didn’t even wanna play this record at all. It would be healthy for me to move on.</p><p>Have you found a way to progress yet?</p><p>I felt like I was making steps, I think that I’m less afraid than I used to be. I used to be very shy and nervous, I’m still a nervous person, but I think what’s going on for me personally now, is owning things a little more. But a more permanent way to deal with some of the stuff I’m dealing with? I haven’t quite found that yet, no. It will be a lifelong exploration.</p><p>Marked for Death was made in a place of total discomfort, do you think that you can progress from this and make music in a place of comfort?</p><p>I don’t know the answer to that yet. I also put myself in an insane situation for Some Heavy Ocean. But I want to find a way of doing that - a healthy way of creation - in that I don’t have to put myself to the brink of extinction in order to make something that is meaningful or beautiful. I think it doesn’t have to be that way, and I’m still figuring it out. One thing that I did really enjoy, was when I was taking some time off, I took up classical guitar lessons, and while doing that I focused on someone else’s music, and that brought joy to playing the instrument for me, in a new way, when ordinarily I would turn to a guitar the same way I’d turn to a drink. Usually, when I play guitar, I play it to get out of myself.</p><p>In the music video for 'Real Big Sky’, you talked about how nothing was as exhilarating for you as natural beauty. Where is the most beautiful place for you, and does a geographical surrounding change how your music sounds?</p><p>I think it does, yes, absolutely. I made my first record, Electric Guitar in a van on a Red Sparowes tour in Europe. And this is not to flatter the English, but England is one of my favourite countries in the world. The beauty of the southern coast in and the hills and the green. I feel very at home in it, and it moves me. This is the place I wanna die.</p><p>Some Heavy Ocean, on the other hand, feels like a very American album to me, especially with all the elements of slide guitar.</p><p>Well I feel like the slide guitar accomplishes a landscape. And the magic of music is that you can conjure landscapes from it, and it’s also a tool to conjure up feeling or a space. And there’s this one little guitar part in 'Protection’, where we were calling it the little owl that comes out of the tree and goes back in.</p><p>How do you feel about the term 'folk-metal’?</p><p>I love it! I feel so very grateful to be embraced by the metal community. But I’m going to do a tour later with a band that I’d describe as 'dream pop’, and there’s a little bit of me that’s nervous because the metal scene is my world.</p><p>You’ve been recording in spaces provided by your record label, Sargent House. Does the label itself have any influence on your music?</p><p>Cathy [founder of Sargent House] is one of my best friends and she’s family. There’s no separation.</p><p>Do you need to be in solitude to create?</p><p>When I recorded Marked For Death I was out there in solitude, and it’s just nothingness. So writing that record, it was a lot of drinking alone in a trailer in the middle of nowhere.</p><p>Will you be showcasing any of your visual art in the future?</p><p>I’d love to be given the opportunity to, yeah. I guess in my mind, this isn’t going to last forever. This has been my plan, to transition into visual art at some point in my life. The value in art and music comes from the emotional quality in it, and that there’s no amount of training anyone can ever practice or acquire to give off some that’s truly emotionally potent.</p><p>And I think that people are here for that specific feeling that you’re giving out.</p><p>Well I hope I don’t disappoint them. It’s very nerve-wracking to play a show in London that was sold out a long time ago. It’s kind of scary. I’ve never been treated like this before, and it’s really strange for me [she pauses] I’m gonna cry. It’s just… [she does] I don’t know, I don’t understand. I’m just trying to make honest music, and if people show up to listen, it’s a little shocking.</p><p>Well this is your first headline tour, it must be overwhelming.</p><p>Yup, it is, but as much as I get nervous and as much as I get caught up in the moment of 'oh my gosh we’re here’ - control will never work, and music is great, and it means things to us as people, and for our culture and who we are, and our hearts, all of these things are important. But at the end of the day, like I said, this is just rock and roll. Cathy once said something to me, I was really nervous before a show, and she said, “it’s just music, you’re not curing cancer”, and I’m like, y'know what, holy shit. That’s the truth.</p><p>Well, it must be really difficult juggling this kind of duality - on the one hand, this is everything to someone, this is someone’s whole life.</p><p>This is my whole life.</p><p>Yes, this is your whole life, and sure it’s not going to cure cancer, but it’s doing something for someone.</p><p>Yeah but it’s important to take yourself not-so-seriously. Like, we’re having this honest conversation about me, but none of it really matters. I think getting too caught up in it is wrong. Like, yes this is my life, but also, it could change at any time. I think taking yourself too seriously as an artist - although I do take myself seriously when I’m making art - it’s a dangerous place for people to get caught up in. I’m not any different from you. We both play guitar; we’re actually both named Emma, we’re all just people. Does that make sense?</p><p>Yeah definitely, but you’re still trying to reach some kind of transcendence.</p><p>Well we all are, aren’t we? There’s something more, I think, deeply in our hearts. I think everyone on so many different scales, and for so many different reasons experiences suffering. Mine isn’t greater or lesser, or more important, or less important than anybody else’s on Earth. I think that music and art is both the practice of trying to capture feeling, but also for me, in making music, it’s trying to transcend the feelings, and explore the feelings, of the simplicity of human suffering, and both how that manifests and how we can push through it.</p><p>But at the same time, as a musician and as a performer, you’re sort of platforming your own suffering.</p><p>Yeah, it’s a very strange thing. I always describe this as a bit of a circus. And like I said, going back and having to play the same music over and over again, it is a very strange concept. And, I dunno, the idea of having to go in front of people and doing what we’re doing, it’s a little bit twisted. Because the music is for me, that’s the end of really what it is. It’s not really for anyone else, and I’m very appreciative and grateful that people wanna hear it, but accepting money for it is really weird. It almost has a dirty quality to it in my mind. So I have some strange difficulties trying to reconcile accepting money for making art or music, but at the same time, it’s also what I want to do all the time.</p><p>And it is your job.</p><p>It is a job, and I actually like some of the job parts of it - the driving parts, and loading the gear, the things like that I do love. If you try to think about giving an emotional performance as a job then it’s not gonna work - and that’s why I try to think of it as something that will end at any time, because it’s fleeting.</p><p>Via <a href="https://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/a-conversation-with-emma-ruth-rundle-149" target="_blank">the 405</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46938372017-05-02T11:44:38-07:002017-05-02T12:06:06-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle & Darkher // Live Review @ The Lexington<figure data-orig-width="248" data-orig-height="48"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/2268d594d874683a62307cd53a63a178/tumblr_inline_opc8hkVi2U1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1176" data-orig-height="781" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/eb143751acb046fb49ac4994c9dc72cf/tumblr_inline_opc8hrjZaC1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><i>David Jupp</i><br></p><p>I am a relative newcomer to the music of <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. Having seen her name on tour posters alongside bands with the heft of <a href="https://deafheaven.com/" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and <a href="https://interarma.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Inter Arma</a>, I was always intrigued. After finally pulling the trigger on recent sophomore effort Marked for Death, there was an element of surprise to being met with eight melancholic and beautifully restrained folk songs, at least when considering her choice of tour-mates.</p><p>It was, however, immediately obvious why Rundle has been keeping such heavy company in recent times. The record is not heavy in the traditional down-tuned sense but there is an indisputable weight to the depth of emotion and delivery, and it is this that affords Rundle the ability to sit comfortably on heavier bills. Tonight sees her name in the largest point size in a headline slot at one of London’s most prestigious smaller venues, The Lexington.</p><p>This evening’s support is supplied by British doom trio Darkher. Built on the foundation of Jayn H. Wissenberg’s flawless haunted vocal, the band work their way through the highlights of last years Realms. Opener ‘Hollow Veil’ bears a striking resemblance to Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s ‘East Hastings’, only more concise and with a heavier hammer-drop.</p><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2384694863/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/">&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=“http://darkher-uk.bandcamp.com/album/realms”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Realms by Darkher&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;</iframe><p><br></p><p>The set’s highlight arrives in the form of aching slow-burner ‘Moths’. Dressed all in black, and with her long auburn hair the only colour to puncture the gloom, Jayn H. Wissenberg’s articulate finger-picked refrain underpins a truly breathtaking vocal delivery. With the tempo set to doom and not a dud note in sight, the audience is genuinely gripped by such hushed tails of impending doom: ‘They warned of dark clouds, gathering overhead’. I had not heard of Darkher before tonight but in performing their shadowy slow-builds with such impressive craft they have gained a new fan.</p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle takes to the stage alone and proceeds to start her set with the location-appropriate song ‘London’. Thickening her sound with swells of delay it becomes clear that Rundle is completely at ease on a stage this size. As she stamps her foot to inject momentum her crowd-commanding charisma is palpable and the song receives a huge cheer. Next up is ‘Arms I Know So Well’ from her outstanding debut. Whittling her vocal between soaring accentuation and aching murmur, I am reminded of her label-mates Russian Circles’ softer work.</p><p>Despite having a folk-sensibility at its core, recent long-player Marked for Death is delivered via a full band and layers of delay-tinged crescendo. With the solo introduction now over, Rundle clearly intends to bring every rising peak to the stage tonight and is subsequently joined by her band and tour-mate Jaye Jayle on second guitar. ‘Run Forever’ follows and the added weight proves invaluable on The Lexington’s superb sound-system.</p><p>There is always something engagingly primal about a musician really enjoying themselves. So, as the band run through the Jose Gonzales inflected ‘Hand of God’, the musical chemistry between Rundle and Jaye Jayle is genuinely infectious. The song’s heights prove considerably heavier on this live stage and as the band draws it to a close the two guitarists exchange a knowing look of acknowledgement. The audience subsequently roars in agreement.</p><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4122221096/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/">&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=“http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Marked For Death by Emma Ruth Rundle&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;</iframe><p><br></p><p>The world of underground music can often be a small one and it was only after conducting my research for this review that I discovered Rundle is an integral part of L.A post-rock band Red Sparrowes. Their 2010 long-player The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer is an exercise in colossal guitar-strata. With the benefit of hindsight, I am not at all surprised by the ease with which Rundle executed her delay-swell guitar solo in ‘Marked for Death’. As the melodic runs shatter and stall through each other it is evident that Rundle has a lot more than folky finger-picking in her audio tool-box.</p><p>As the band leaves the stage, Emma Ruth Rundle closes out the set with a delay-soaked solo rendition of ‘Heaven’. The next eight minutes serve as a testament to her experience as a touring musician and the resilience and optimism that permeates Marked for Death. As she begins the opening picked arpeggios, the guitar is perceptibly out-of-tune. In situations like these you are faced with two options, stop the performance and start again or plough on and save it through force of will. Rundle chooses the latter, and while the detuned guitar is ever-present, her courage in the face of adversity earns her a huge cheer as the last chords ring out.</p><p>Now clearly aware that the previous song has faltered, a visibly determined Rundle proceeds to bring down the curtain with a spectacular version of the grunge-inflected ’Real Big Sky’. As she sings ‘I won’t ever change my mind, I can’t wait to kiss the face of the big sky’, the command in her voice confirms what Deafheaven, Inter Arma and Russian Circles already know: Emma Ruth Rundle is a charismatic and powerful performer who transforms reflective indie-folk songs into poignant ethereal juggernauts.</p><p><a href="http://www.the-monitors.com/2017/05/02/emma-ruth-rundle-darkher-lexington/" target="_blank">via The Monitors</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46881252017-04-27T11:11:33-07:002017-04-27T15:06:23-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle & Jaye Jayle @ The Lexington // Punktastic<figure data-orig-width="460" data-orig-height="158" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/267a5eb28fc89251aa365faf11e16aea/tumblr_inline_op2x57bhkT1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1310" data-orig-height="1056" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/19abdc3aa7dba94327217fb9b78349dc/tumblr_inline_op2x5hx9me1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>The last time <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> was in town was for a brief opening slot to Wovenhand. That show was proof how far Rundle’s music has reached, given the adoration from the crowd that is rarely shown for a support act. Six months later, Rundle has returned to London for a one-off, sold out show, and her first headline show in the UK.</p><p><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> opens things up, which is fitting given the recent split they released alongside Rundle, and they get things off to a gloriously gloomy start. The dusty, deserted plains that Jaye Jayle travel with their music is carried by Evan Patterson’s southern drawl. Blues infused guitar licks weave through their dark and smoky haze, with nods towards the repetition of krautrock and the sinister side of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. It’s intoxicating until the very last notes ring out.</p><!-- more --><p>From there, Darkher cast an enchanting spell on the audience, which by this point have filled every inch of The Lexington. Jayn H Wissenberg’s voice is equal parts haunting and beautiful, as the soundtrack beneath moves between a dissonant drone and glittering gothic rock. It is pure melancholy for the duration of Darkher’s set, with little respite from the intensity they produce on stage, but an ethereal trip that leaves a lasting impression.</p><p>When Emma Ruth Rundle takes the stage, she is at first armed with just an acoustic guitar. Visibly moved by the packed crowd, Rundle expresses her love for England at numerous intervals during the set in a very personal way. It is reciprocated by the dead silent audience, allowing ‘Arms I know So Well’ to reverberate around the room. You could hear a pin drop, and all eyes and ears are fixed forward.</p><p>Rundle is then joined by her backing band, which tonight is comprised of members of Jaye Jayle. It gives ‘Run Forever’, ‘Marked For Death’, and ‘Protection’ the same power as on record and then some. Rundle’s voice is note-perfect, breaking through the wall of guitars that wax and wane over the thunderous rhythm section. It is a sound made for larger rooms than tonight, particularly the towering rendition of ‘Hand Of God’.</p><p>Rather than go through the motions of walking off stage and returning for an encore, the band departs, leaving Rundle to an acoustic version of ‘Shadows Of My Name’. She then goes fully unplugged for a stripped back run through ‘Real Big Sky’, filled with raw emotion. It marks the end of the set, and a performance that shows Emma Ruth Rundle is one of the great songwriters of our generation.</p><p><a href="http://www.punktastic.com/?s=glen+bushell" target="_blank">GLEN BUSHELL</a></p><p>Article Via <a href="http://www.punktastic.com/live-reviews/live-emma-ruth-rundle-darkher-jaye-jayle-the-lexington-london/" target="_blank">Punktastic.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46743392017-04-17T15:25:00-07:002017-04-17T15:26:22-07:00European Tour begins April 20, 2017<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="6201" data-orig-width="4430"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/760e8c730c7e901c5b98a8c0d8c32b4f/tumblr_inline_ookr8mDnFB1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will embark on her first headlining European Tour. She will be playing some shows with a full band featuring the members of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> who will also be opening all shows marked below with an *. She will perform solo on all other dates. <br></p><p>EUROPE 2017<br>Apr 20 Lisbon, PT @ Sabotage<br>Apr 21 Porto, PT @ Understage / Rivoli<br>Apr 22 Villa Real, PT @ Club de Villa Real<br>Apr 23 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival *<br>Apr 24 Utretcht, NL @ Tivoli *<br>Apr 25 Liege, BE @ Reflektor *<br>Apr 26 London, UK @ The Lexington * SOLD OUT<br>Apr 28 Leeuwarden, NL @ Asteriks *<br>Apr 29 Paris, FR @ OTB Fest Nights *<br>Apr 30 Den Haag, NL @ Paard*<br>May 01 Wurzburg, DE @ Immerhin*<br>May 02 Munich, DE @ Ampere*<br>May 03 Nuremberg, DE @ Club Stereo*<br>May 04 Munster, DE @ Gleis 22*<br>May 05 Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree*<br>May 06 Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend*<br>May 07 Hamburg, DE @ Prinzenbar *<br>May 09 Malmo, SE @ Plan B<br>May 10 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken Stockholm<br>May 11 Warsaw, PL @ Chmury Club <br>May 12 Thessaloniki, GR @ Fix Factory Of Sound #<br>May 13 Athens , GR @ Fuzz Club #<br>May 18 Geneva, CH @ L'Usine<br>May 19 Lausanne, CH @ Le Bourg<br>May 25 Zottegem, BE @ Dunk! Festival<br>May 26 Madrid, ES @ Get Mad Festival<br>May 27 Grand Canaria, ES @ La Choza De Doe<br>May 30 Barcelona, ES @ Rocksound<br>June 2 Leipzig, DE @ Wave Gotik Treffen</p><p><a href="http://jayejayle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> Supporting*<br>Supporting <a href="http://wovenhandband.com" target="_blank">Wovenhand </a> #</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46706592017-04-13T15:20:40-07:002017-04-13T20:47:09-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle Interview // Arctic Drones<figure data-orig-width="1202" data-orig-height="252" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e33ba90755c78350bd37ebb0d5f885da/tumblr_inline_oodagdFrjh1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1530" data-orig-height="262" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/b492ba81924fbc8cca0c5794498d2e4f/tumblr_inline_oodagrmnqo1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1540" data-orig-height="1028" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/4f26cdce68294cb8674baa98d0450de7/tumblr_inline_oodah6NMwP1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://arcticdrones.com/interviews/emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank"></a>“I’m sorry man, I’ve been really sick.” This is one of the first things <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> says to me as we ascend the stairs to the Green Room of the Paradise Rock Club in Boston (March 16, 2017). No apologies are necessary, but the exhaustion present in her voice is understandable. To put it mildly, New England has seen better weeks, especially in March. My initial plan was to arrive in Boston on Wednesday, the original date of Rundle’s show supporting This Will Destroy You and <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheave</a>n (one of the more epic tour lineups I can recall). However, I had to change things up, leaving Burlington, VT at 2 AM Tuesday morning following a 12-hour shift at work to get ahead of a storm that would ultimately dump at least 2 miserable feet of snow on a town that had been foolishly anticipating the coming of Spring. The rest of New England and New York were not spared either, resulting in the postponement of the show to Thursday evening. As a result, I had to spend an extra two days at an inn-that-shall-remain-nameless in the heart of the Harvard Ave area of Boston which, frankly, reminds me of the kind of place a depressed person would shack up at to drink themselves to death. I also made the mistake of only bringing one pair each of shoes and pants, which I nearly ruined attempting to navigate the slush-flooded Bostonian sidewalks Tuesday evening, leading to a fiasco in which I was, for at least a fleeting moment, sure I was going to die of hypothermia in an alley.</p><p>Full Interview <a href="http://arcticdrones.com/interviews/emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Here.</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46478712017-03-27T11:26:54-07:002017-03-27T17:17:00-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle show review // Currently Streaming<a href="https://currentlystreaming.com/music/reviews/concert-reviews/deafheaven-haunt-denver/" target="_blank"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/3ce643925cbd4cf5d63042a92a53ae3b/tumblr_inline_onhjv57Q361rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><figure data-orig-width="2026" data-orig-height="360" class="tmblr-full"><a href="https://currentlystreaming.com/music/reviews/concert-reviews/deafheaven-haunt-denver/" target="_blank"></a><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/f58fbfef0570b70f5ca3f6b361615314/tumblr_inline_onhjxeBClq1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1080" data-orig-height="784" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e3f99dbefac91520d36621de6d2f2c71/tumblr_inline_onhk74vzAN1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="2058" data-orig-height="1374" class="tmblr-full"></figure><h2><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></h2><p>Thoughts and emotions were lifted to the surface as Emma Ruth Rundle sang last night in her gothic-tinged and beautifully melancholic tone, touching us all with her fragile-yet-powerful delivery. Around her, the band is filling your atmosphere with their dark hues and grief-stricken sorrow that is twanging and breaking off every pluck of the guitar and beat of the drum. Emma Ruth Rundle will invade your mind with her intellectual and profound lyricism, and delve into your soul with her emotive and poignant presence. Tranquility will wash over you as she ethereally stands in front of you baring her heart for all to see. She is not just heard in the live setting, she is felt. Witness her timeless and expressive performance below.</p><p>Full article <a href="https://currentlystreaming.com/music/reviews/concert-reviews/deafheaven-haunt-denver/" target="_blank">here.</a></p><!-- more --><figure data-orig-width="1864" data-orig-height="1370" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/a677b02ea34ccedf81f086a961ca95f8/tumblr_inline_onhjzv0bC11rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="2058" data-orig-height="1374" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/7b93b74b9c54236e2d6274cc2eb3347b/tumblr_inline_onhjyyozNP1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Photos via <a href="http://kristinkesterson.com/" target="_blank">Kristin Kesterson</a> for <a href="https://currentlystreaming.com/music/reviews/concert-reviews/deafheaven-haunt-denver/" target="_blank">Currently Streaming</a></p><figure data-orig-width="819" data-orig-height="1024" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/74fa7655849d6910d581667651dee511/tumblr_inline_onhjzwPX111rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="970" data-orig-height="647" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/f4a18ce27bcbea735aac45e7aa369b66/tumblr_inline_onhk0853011rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="970" data-orig-height="647" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/ffde247828b1827ee687e5a1e4397c2b/tumblr_inline_onhk0bNxsI1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Photos via <a href="http://mitchkline.com/" target="_blank">Mitch Kline</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46431942017-03-23T12:26:57-07:002017-03-23T15:06:24-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle’s solo music may be inspired by folk, but that hasn’t stopped her from touring the...<a href="http://www.westword.com/music/emma-ruth-rundle-plays-with-deafheaven-at-summit-music-hall-8893536%3Cfigure" target="_blank"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e288d9d57c816248e6215934d9a7298b/tumblr_inline_ona81dQq561qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><figure data-orig-width="1546" data-orig-height="272" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/57b7bcbc19299f9d2ea2be7c90fdd4f5/tumblr_inline_ona81cnZH91qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1492" data-orig-height="1362" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/942599f4edd1e99b356fd4af2dbc0201/tumblr_inline_ona81pTgQo1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="https://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle’s</a> solo music may be inspired by folk, but that hasn’t stopped her from touring the country with black-metal act <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and post-rock band This Will Destroy You. The three bands hit the stage at the Summit Music Hall this week.</p><p>Folk and metal have rarely traveled side by side, but putting music into stylistic silos is rightfully falling out of fashion. Rundle is part of a new movement of artists like <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/chelsea-wolfe" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>, Helen Money and the band Miserable, who are proving that folk can be as dark and intense as metal, and that the imagined divide between acoustic music and heavy, noisier styles need no longer exist.</p><p>Rundle, who has lived in Los Angeles much of her life, says she has been influenced by many styles of music. “I think my listening tastes have been pretty out there and varied,” she says. “There’s a sense in the community I’m in that some of what I’m doing doesn’t sound as heavy as the [musical] world I’m in.”</p><p>That assessment, she believes, reflects an inadequate understanding of her work. “There are so many places that music comes from,” Rundle notes. “I didn’t grow up in a time when it was just radio. There was the Internet when I was a kid, so you could really hear anything.” And in the digital era, there’s no reason that music aficionados should be schooled in only one sound or musicians limited to one genre or set of influences.</p><p>Part of how music has always spread has been through word of mouth, she adds. “You have a friend who really loves Naked City, and that’s how you find out about John Zorn, and that takes you down a rabbit hole in that direction.”</p><p>Rundle chalks up her folk tendencies to her Los Angeles childhood and years spent hanging around McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, a store that she describes as the center of the Los Angeles folk-music scene for sixty years.</p><p>There, at age eight, she studied Celtic harp and started hanging out with musicians. Eventually, she took a job at the store and stayed there for a decade.</p><p>“There are concerts there three days of the week,” she says. “I would work a lot of those concerts and saw hundreds of shows.”</p><p>She also sold guitars and worked in the repair shop, where she learned to fix and play a wide range of instruments. Most of that knowledge she has not tapped into directly for her various experimental rock bands.<br>The most important lessons she learned at McCabe’s were to listen closely and to be patient with new music. <br>But she also says her own tastes were shaped in part by the influence of radio stations. That’s where she first heard Smashing Pumpkins as a child, a band that shaped the trajectory of her career.</p><p>Rundle, who is well known for her membership in the post-rock band Red Sparowes, has demonstrated her versatile talent as a guitarist with her bands Nocturnes and Marriages. In those projects, she’s displayed a keen ear for atmosphere, texture and subtle inflections that turn a pretty, luminous melody into something powerful and moving.</p><p>Rundle released her first solo album, <i>Electric Guitar One</i>, in 2011. Despite its name, the record highlighted her folk background and a willingness to push the genre’s boundaries with the noisy soundscaping that she leans on in her better-known musical projects. She layered noise and introspective melodies, then refined the gesture on her next two solo efforts, 2014’s Some Heavy Ocean and 2016’s <i>Marked for Death</i>. On the latter, a more overt folk element emerged and enriched her songwriting.</p><figure data-orig-width="1064" data-orig-height="1062" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/c075f9a056f87d50ee693e611ec4b319/tumblr_inline_ona8o0OHA81rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>In 2017, Rundle released <i>The Time Between Us</i>, a split album with Jaye Jayle of the Young Widows that comprised leftover songs from the musicians’ recording sessions for their most recent solo works.</p><p>“You can see from the photos and the title that there’s this kind of imagined love story going on,” Rundle says. <br><i>The Time Between Us</i> is a highly stylized product from two artists known for imaginative, heavy music, operating outside their usual parameters and creating a self-contained world and musical vibe inspired by their mutual love for David Lynch movies. The two musicians plan to tour Europe together in April and May.</p><p>The music on <i>The Time Between Us</i> stands in sharp contrast to <i>Marked for Death</i>, which Rundle describes as rife with “confrontational” imagery and music.</p><p>“This was a very feminine, soft and dreamy thing to do,” she says, precisely unlike what audiences will probably hear at Thursday’s show at the Summit, when her brand of noisy folk will compete in heaviness with the sounds of Deafheaven and This Will Destroy You.</p><p>Via <a href="http://www.westword.com/music/emma-ruth-rundle-plays-with-deafheaven-at-summit-music-hall-8893536" target="_blank">WestWord</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46190732017-03-06T13:41:00-08:002017-03-06T15:47:20-08:00Interview with She Shreds Magazine<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="35" data-orig-width="300"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/f6706af5e99ee54be284738910fa2e31/tumblr_inline_omex2gzjRj1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="678" data-orig-width="1366"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/ac538e55659ab85e7a4e06a02a4a02bd/tumblr_inline_omex2pA5ph1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><i>Text by Erin Lyndal Martin<br>Image by Gus Black</i><br></p><blockquote><p>“I personally can’t continue to write and tour on music that focuses on such dark subject matter. It’s really not good for me,” says <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> by phone from her home in Portland, Oregon. <br></p></blockquote><p>Indeed, the imagery in Rundle’s <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">work</a> has often included grim Biblical references and inspirations from Rundle’s struggle with the chronic medical condition, adenomyosis. It’s not surprising that after a decade working as a professional musician, Rundle is ready to leave all the gloomy adjectives behind. In fact, it’s hard to find a review of her music that doesn’t use words like “dark,” “gloomy,” or even “gothic.” “Rundle has made her name performing mournful, minor key compositions, swelling with gothic drama,” <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22492-marked-for-death/" target="_blank">wrote <i>Pitchfork</i></a>. “All her disparate musical projects carry a dark underbelly of vulnerability that washes over and seduces the listener, but we only see Rundle at her lowest ebbs through her solo work,” <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death-exclusive-album-stream-a7329466.html" target="_blank">wrote the <i>Independent</i></a>.</p><p>Rundle’s moody guitar work is the product of a musical education she pieced together. She took up the guitar at age 13, having already forged a deep bond with LA’s legendary McCabe’s Guitar Shop (which included a flirtation with the Celtic harp). Though Rundle received a few lessons at McCabe’s, mostly she taught herself to play by looking up chords and tablatures online. Later, during a year at CalArts, Rundle took some individual classes with master guitarist Miroslav Tadić. “He really imparted the idea that the instrument was a vehicle for creativity and hugely versatile and never to feel less than for playing in non-virtuosic ways,” she says.</p><!-- more --><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1214179076/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">The Time Between Us by Emma Ruth Rundle & Jaye Jayle</a></iframe></p><p><br></p><p>Rundle has honed her intricate guitarscapes and vocals through a number of projects. Her solo career began with <i>Electric Guitar One</i> (2011)<i>, </i>whose sequel Rundle is working on now. Her next two solo LPs, <i><a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a></i> (2014) and <i><a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked for Death</a></i> (2016)—both released on <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>—received massive critical praise for Rundle’s skilled vocals, sharp songwriting, and adept guitar work. In addition to her solo releases, Rundle has collaborated in the bands Red Sparowes, Nocturnes, the Headless Prince of Zolpidem, and currently, <a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a>. </p><p>Marriages, comprised of Rundle, Greg Burns, and Andrew Clinco, is a little bit post-rock and a little bit pop-goth—the band is often compared to Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure. The band began as a fluke: “<a href="http://russiancirclesband.com" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a> asked Red Sparowes to join the bill with them and Deafheaven at a show in LA. When the band couldn’t agree to do it, Greg and I formed Marriages and played the show. The whole first record [<i>Kitsune</i>, 2012] was the set we wrote just for that show,” Rundle says, adding that making their acclaimed 2015 full-length, <i>Salome </i>was “grueling and seemingly unending.”</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWJxMxJGTw3k"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJxMxJGTw3k?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>Despite the tediousness of recording the LP, Rundle sees her work in Marriages as a true collaboration: “With Marriages, Greg and I have a partnership in writing. Historically, that is how we’ve done that music. But with the solo stuff, I write it alone and I play guitar everyday and it comes out, especially because these days I haven’t been writing for Marriages. When we were working on things, sometimes I’d have a little riff or idea melodically that I could bring to Greg and he would have a bass line and we’d come together. Songs would come from that collaboration.”</p><p>Despite her successes as a solo artist as well as with Marriages, Rundle isn’t done learning yet. “I’ve been taking classical guitar lessons recently, actually, so I’m performing it and writing to hone my skills. I’ve been playing a lot more nylon string and that’s been pulling into the writing. I’ve been listening to Nick Drake a lot lately. I’m mostly a finger-style guitarist already, but I’m writing exclusively on acoustic and nylon-string guitar these days.”</p><p>Rundle loves creating layers of texture, so keeping her guitar work simple goes against her impulses. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to not add all the atmospheric guitar stuff. It’s my favorite thing to do. I love coming up with guitar textures. ‘This is the sound of a blue owl flying out of a tree for 10 seconds.’ I take the Brian Eno approach to textures and colors and exploring that through the electric guitar and effect pedals. But I am focusing on acoustic guitar side-by-side with this,” Rundle says, adding that her favorite guitarist is Billy Corgan.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="459" data-orig-height="344" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwDlJ7BBPJw0"><iframe width="540" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDlJ7BBPJw0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>Rundle’s latest release is <i><a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">The Time Between Us</a>,</i> a split EP with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> (a Louisville, Kentucky punk project featuring Evan Patterson of Young Widows). Two previously unreleased songs, “The Distance” and “Hours (To Fold in England)” are full of the intricate guitar strata that Rundle so loves. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for <i>Marked for Death. </i>“The Distance” was too long to fit on the vinyl version of the LP. A shimmering love song with Rundle’s voice haunting several delicious layers of distortion, this song proved challenging from a guitar perspective for Rundle.</p><p>“It took several revisions in the sense that I couldn’t really find the right key for that song to be in. I couldn’t physically tune my guitar as low as it needed to be. So I got this Digitech drop pedal. It’s like a whammy pedal, but it specifically changes the entire tuning by a half step down. It goes all the way to seven half steps down. I ended up using that in the studio instead of tuning the guitar itself because it was impossible. I kind of fucked myself over with all the tuning on the record because I didn’t come up with a strategy for that tuning situation—it’s pretty out there.”</p><p>That willingness to embrace new tunings is part of what makes Rundle’s guitar work so enthralling, whether in her solo work or in Marriages. Rundle hopes that there will be a new Marriages album sometime in the future, but right now she feels more committed to her solo work. “It feels more well-received and it’s natural for me to write alone and be alone these days anyway.” Given her newfound classical guitar skills and her desire to make more hopeful music, it’s anybody’s guess what her new solo music will sound like. But even if Rundle leaves the gloom and fuzzed-out soundscapes behind, her music will surely remain alive with the ambition and honesty that have so many singing her praises already. <br></p><p><a href="http://sheshredsmag.com/interview-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">(via She Shreds Magazine)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46092552017-02-27T13:49:35-08:002017-02-27T17:17:02-08:00Dual Interview with Jaye Jayle // Bandcamp<p><figure data-orig-height="60" data-orig-width="243"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/1dc98aa33479fd7fee5bfdc1660680ef/tumblr_inline_om1yr4xlTS1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="400" data-orig-width="600"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/53ba5df1f83ca4f7c9069b943c0e655c/tumblr_inline_om1yrclVnl1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="74" data-orig-width="605"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/01287001f02b515022977bea75f384bc/tumblr_inline_om1yri01JV1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>When <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> unveiled her gorgeous, critically-acclaimed album <i>Marked For Death</i> last year, the Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter ended up with some extra songs that wouldn’t physically fit on the vinyl. As luck would have it, the same thing happened to Evan Patterson while he was finishing up his solo project <a href="https://jayejayle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a>’s full-length debut, <a href="https://jayejayle.bandcamp.com/album/house-cricks-and-other-excuses-to-get-out" target="_blank"><i>House Cricks and Other Excuses To Get Out</i></a>, in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Rundle and Patterson had first met on tour in late 2009 when Rundle’s then-band, Red Sparowes, spent a week touring with <a href="https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a> and Patterson’s other band, <a href="https://youngwidows.bandcamp.com/album/easy-pain" target="_blank">Young Widows</a>. Nearly eight years later, the two highly prolific musicians decided to combine Rundle’s atmospheric heartbreak with Jaye Jayle’s dark Americana for the split release <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank"><i>The Time Between Us</i></a>. By merging material that they couldn’t squeeze onto their respective full-lengths, Rundle and Patterson created a fictional interstate love story that stands as its own conceptual work. We recently spoke with both artists about the origin of the record and their upcoming European tour.</p><p><b>What initially drew each of you to the other’s music?</b></p><p><b>Rundle</b>: Well, it’s hard to separate my opinion or feeling about Jaye Jayle from my opinion or feeling about Evan. I have a long history of really appreciating him as a guitarist. He has this style that he carries into all of his projects—and I think Jaye Jayle showcases this the most—which is the sensual, rootsy quality of his playing. It’s just this essence—Evan’s essence! [<i>Laughs</i>] And you should definitely use that.</p><p><b>Patterson:</b> My favorite thing about Emma’s music is that it’s highly emotionally charged. It’s music that’s extremely personal and relatable. That’s something I’ve always been inspired by with songwriters. If you hear a song that you’re attached to, most of the time it’s about personal experiences that you can relate to, and I feel that way with her songs very much. It holds up to the test of time, and that’s inspiring.</p><p><b>Who hatched the idea for this split?</b></p><p><b>Rundle: </b>Probably Cathy [Pellow] at Sargent House, but I’m not sure. I had these songs that I recorded in the <i>Marked For Death</i> session that couldn’t fit on the record and didn’t make sense to be part of that release. Which is fine, because the song “The Distance” made sense living in its own world. The plan was to do a seven-inch, but then Evan reached out last year when he was on tour with Jaye Jayle and asked if I would want to hop onstage and play a song with them. I wasn’t able to, but we started talking about doing stuff.</p><p><b>Patterson</b>: It was Cathy. The original idea for these Jaye Jayle songs, which were recorded during the <i>House Cricks</i> sessions… there’s this pedal company called Old Blood Noise Endeavors; they do these limited cassette runs. They sent me some of their pedals, which were wild, so I was like, ‘What if I run these songs entirely through these pedals and did a cassette?’ Then I asked Cathy if she wanted to do a 7-inch single of the cassette, and she said, ‘Why don’t you just do a split with Emma?”’</p><!-- more --><p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1214179076/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">The Time Between Us by Emma Ruth Rundle & Jaye Jayle</a></iframe></p><p><b>What’s the story behind the title, </b><b><i>The Time Between Us</i></b><b>? </b></p><p><b>Rundle</b>: Evan and I went back and forth on several titles, but I want to give him credit for most of it. He really was the champion of this whole project. He came up with a bunch of different titles and then we kind of honed in on what it became. But it started with the images on the cover. In the photo of me, I’m supposed to be an ice skater from Dallas who’s really heartbroken. [<i>Laughs</i>] That’s the vibe of that character. When I sent it to Evan, he immediately responded with his take on it. He did the same pose and had the strong color theme, so in my mind it kind of turned into this strange, otherworldly love story between to two fictional characters. I don’t know if Evan feels the same way about it.</p><p><b>Patterson</b>: The title is kind of a play off her song, “The Distance,” and my song, “About Time You Came To Me.” On the album cover, I’m wearing a hat that I bought at Goodwill for a dollar about a year ago. The actual size of my head is huge, so I can never find hats that fit, and I never have money to order a hat. And then we just happened to have these oversized tokens and this strange fake-fruit cornucopia in my house, and I thought there was something surreal about that with Emma’s fake flowers. So I guess I’m kind of the cowboy gentleman to Emma’s crying ice skater. The whole image seems like some kind of haunted wedding invitation or wedding photo. [<i>Laughs</i>]</p><p><b>The songs streaming on Bandcamp are Emma’s “The Distance” and Jaye Jayle’s “Unnecessarily.” What can you tell us about those?</b></p><p><b>Rundle: </b>“The Distance” is a love song. It’s about being separated from the person you love, and the space you go to when you’re apart. It’s the cliché kind of love stuff about how the person fills the void in your soul. It’s cliché, but it’s not dishonest. The aesthetics of the song have kind of a <i>Twin Peaks</i> vibe. The video thing I made for it is kind of a fantasy-land that I would describe as Sinead O’Connor living in a <i>Twin Peaks</i> world. [<i>Laughs</i>]</p><p><b>Patterson:</b> “Unnecessarily” is kind of a playful mess. I ran the entire song through my pedal board and was just slamming on weird effects to make all these sounds. I was going to just leave it instrumental, but then I thought, “What if I tried to sing on it?” Besides the word “unnecessary,” most of it is just improvisational and stream-of-consciousness gibberish. [<i>Laughs</i>] I’m a big fan of the band Can, and [Can vocalist] Damo Suzuki is probably only saying real words every couple of lines, but there’s something about just hearing a melody regardless of what language or even if it’s understandable. It’s just a relatable sound in a voice.</p><p><b>You’re touring Europe together in the spring. What’s the plan?</b></p><p><b>Rundle: </b>Yeah, Jaye Jayle is going to be my backing band. I’ll play a song with them and then they’ll be my band, so it’ll be this family situation. I think the plan is for me to go to Louisville for a week before we go to Europe so we can rehearse.</p><p><b>Patterson: </b>When we get together we’ll start coming up with ideas of when to do what and which songs to play and which instruments we’re gonna use. We’ve got an array of keyboards and instruments we’ve been using lately with a lot of the new songs we’ve been writing, so we’ve got a lot of exciting things we can do to make the tour truly unique and a different experience from any other tour we’ve done before or maybe even after.</p><p><i>—J. Bennett</i></p><p><a href="https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/27/emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle-int/" target="_blank">(via Bandcamp)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46060242017-02-24T13:13:20-08:002017-02-24T18:16:53-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle / Jaye Jayle split EP “The Time Between Us” is out now<figure data-orig-width="2000" data-orig-height="2000" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/21a60b5d013cd57e6193b7bed01e0018/tumblr_inline_olwcr8GL2Y1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Happy release day to <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> & <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> - their split EP, <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">“The Time Between Us”</a>, is out today. CD and vinyl formats are available to order at <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Hello Merch</a>, which ships worldwide, and the album is available in digital and streaming on all major music platforms.</p><p>See what people are saying about the split EP below.</p><figure data-orig-width="500" data-orig-height="178" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/24a547e96cb90b6dfcde829a64eb4b64/tumblr_inline_olwd5ivkIh1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“an excellent introduction to Jaye Jayle and a timely reminder of how hauntingly majestic Emma Ruth Rundle’s work is.”. - <a href="https://altdialogue.com/2017/02/17/ep-review-the-time-between-us-by-emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle/" target="_blank">Alt Dialogue</a><br></p><figure data-orig-width="234" data-orig-height="73"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/1ca5d0f24648a60e5c179841bcf28954/tumblr_inline_olwd7ahotP1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“The bond Emma Ruth Rundle and Jay Jayle share is extended further than just being on the same label, and they compliment each other perfectly.” - <a href="http://www.punktastic.com/album-reviews/emma-ruth-rundle-jay-jayle-the-time-between-us/" target="_blank">Punktastic</a><br></p><figure data-orig-width="150" data-orig-height="150"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/9a17f5e019124125a56d7c115d52c591/tumblr_inline_olwda2HrQ61qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>“It is a pure glance of what Emma Ruth Rundle is capable of; powerful, passionate music…[Jaye Jayle] creates a unique world…a trippy departure from a bluegrass sound with hints of Zydeco and electronica. Two sides of the same coin lay before you but, when it lands, you make the call.” - <a href="http://www.bhamrocks.com/reviews/emma-ruth-rundlejaye-jayle-the-time-between-us/" target="_blank">BhamRocks</a><br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/46006152017-02-21T10:54:51-08:002017-02-21T13:34:09-08:00‘The Time Between Us’ split with Jaye Jayle streaming in full at Tiny Mix Tapes<p><figure data-orig-width="532" data-orig-height="58" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/be52708fb8e4dc235de762078e7e0884/tumblr_inline_olqmeeycSR1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="896" data-orig-height="896" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/48bac15866633ea0f90aecafc1ab58f7/tumblr_inline_olqmerdxMp1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="552" data-orig-height="146" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/bcb121a225fa8f2f12eb5c112f28a043/tumblr_inline_olqmfcDbDo1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>This Friday, February 24, the WORLD AS WE KNOW IT will be IRREVOCABLY ALTERED. I know: that sounds a little dramatic… but hell, so do both this news story’s formidable, <a href="https://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>-affiliated protagonists, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a>.</p><p>Given that you’re such a cool person, general fan of mold-shattering independent music, and fanatical follower of TMT, <a href="http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/jaye-jayle-metal-band-young-widows-signs-sargent-house-announces-new-ep" target="_blank">you probably remember near the end of last year</a> when we told you that Jayle and Rundle would soon be teaming up for a new six-song split EP, titled The Time Between Us, featuring three brand new tracks from each artist.</p><p>And, well, guest what? Yup, this coming Friday totally marks the release date for that very special EP. Think of it, readers: all of Rundle’s “lonely tones,” “dusty landscapes,” “swells of reverb,” and “sparkles of lyrical intensity” finally united with Jayle’s bizarre cross-mutations of outerspace-oriented Krautrock and grave-digger country-blues.</p><p>Gee, sounds utterly amazing, no? Toooooo baaaaad that Friday is still an excruciating three days wait from now, isn’t it? Oh well, though. Nothing can be done about that… OH WAIT, FUCK THAT: Pre-order your own highly durable and/or extremely portable copy of The Time Between Us now on your choice of <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">gritty vinyl, shiny CD</a>, or iTunes-y <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-time-between-us-split-ep/id1199142335?app=itunes" target="_blank">digital</a>. And, just for being such a cool person, general fan of mold-shattering independent music, and fanatical follower of TMT, I’m happy to announce that, as of right now, you can stream the entire EP till your heart’s content via the player down below while you wait for it to show up at your door/download queue! (Also, to help you get even more of your Jayle/Rundle fix, keep a-scrollin’ on down after the tracklisting to peep the plethora of tour dates that one or both of these spooky songsmiths has coming up on his/her spring agenda.) See, what’d I tell you? Consider all your shit: IRREVOCABLY ALTERED.</p><iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/301565568&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe><!-- more --><p>Emma Ruth Rundle dates:</p><p>02.21.17 - Los Angeles, CA @ Complex #<br>02.23.17 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (Noise Pop) – SOLD OUT<br>02.24.17 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>02.26.17 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse Saloon *<br>02.28.17 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sister *<br>03.02.17 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk *<br>03.03.17 - Dallas, TX @ Trees *<br>03.04.17 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio *<br>03.05.17 - New Orleans, LA @ The Republic NOLA *<br>03.06.17 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn ^<br>03.07.17 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *<br>03.08.17 - Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge *<br>03.10.17 - Charlotte, NC @ The Underground *<br>03.11.17 - Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry *<br>03.12.17 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage *<br>03.13.17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts *<br>03.14.17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw *<br>03.15.17 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *<br>03.17.17 - Detroit, MI @ Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall *<br>03.18.17 - Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theater *<br>03.19.17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall *<br>03.20.17 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line *<br>03.21.17 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room *<br>03.23.17 - Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall *<br>03.24.17 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *<br>03.25.17 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Fest *<br>03.26.17 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos *<br>03.27.17 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall *<br>03.29.17 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios %<br></p><p># Black Mare, Petheaven<br>* w/ <a href="http://deafheaven.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a>, This Will Destroy You<br>^ w/ Deafheaven<br>% w/ Dark Red Seed, Braveyoung<br></p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle & Jaye Jayle dates:</p><p>04.20.17 - Lisbon, PT - Sabotage<br>04.21.17 - Porto, PT - Understage / Rivoli<br>04.22.17 - Villa Real, PT - Club de Villa Real<br>04.23.17 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival<br>04.24.17 - Utretcht, NL - Tivoli<br>04.25.17 - Liege, BE - Reflektor<br>04.26.17 - London, UK - The Lexington<br>04.28.17 - Leeuwarden, NL - Asteriks<br>04.29.17 - Paris, FR - OTB Fest Nights<br>04.30.17 - Den Haag, NL - Paard<br>05.02.17 - Munich, DE - Ampere<br>05.03.17 - Nuremberg, DE - Club Stereo<br>05.04.17 - Munster, DE - Gleis 22<br>05.05.17 - Berlin, DE - Urban Spree<br>05.06.17 - Copenhagen, DK - A Colossal Weekend *<br>05.07.17 - Hamburg, DE - Prinzenbar<br>05.09.17 - Malmo, SE - Plan B *<br>05.10.17 - Stockholm, SE - Kraken Stockholm *<br>05.18.17 - Geneva, CH - L’Usine *<br>05.19.17 - Lausanne, CH @ Le Bourg *<br>05.26.17 - Madrid, ES @ Get Mad Festival *<br>05.27.17 - Gran Canaria, ES @ La Chozo De Doe<br>05.30.17 - Barcelona, ES @ Flatstock Party *</p><p><a href="http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/emma-ruth-rundle-and-jaye-jayle-announce-new-joint-ep-sargent-house-premiere-full-album-stream" target="_blank">(via Tiny Mix Tapes)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45991732017-02-20T10:59:00-08:002017-02-20T14:06:25-08:00The Time Between Us // Alt Dialogue review<figure data-orig-width="864" data-orig-height="308" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/6898828ea74f771e4524a27c713c8100/tumblr_inline_olosh2BENZ1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="2000" data-orig-height="2000" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/21a60b5d013cd57e6193b7bed01e0018/tumblr_inline_olosipHd8c1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="565" data-orig-height="86" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/78bd8b6483b274bbf4364ebf83c9fef1/tumblr_inline_olosi3FrtV1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">The Time Between Us</a> is the title of a new 6-song split EP between <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> alum <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> (Red Sparowes, <a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a>) and the label’s newest addition, Louisville’s <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> (featuring Evan Patterson of Young Widows). The EP boasts three previously unreleased tracks from each artist.</p><p>Due for release on 24<sup>th</sup> February, the EP acts as an excellent introduction to Jaye Jayle and a timely reminder of how hauntingly majestic Emma Ruth Rundle’s work is. ‘The Distance’ is trademark ERR, minimalist yet haunting backdrop allows her vocal to excel. As with much of her work it’s the vocal that suckers you in with the atmospheric laidback musical accompaniment making it all a little more chilling. ‘To Fold In England (Hours)’ does the admirable job of sounding like ERR most tortured and fragile piece of work. It aches and pulses in waves of emotion. Finishing off the ERR track is an acoustic version of ‘Hand Of God’, one of the standout tracks from the superb <a href="https://altdialogue.com/2016/09/29/album-review-marked-for-death-by-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Marked for Death </a>it’s another gem.</p><p>In all honesty this was our first exposure to Jaye Jayle, and its impressive stuff. Perhaps the press release sums it up best… Though possessing a distinct Southern filter, Jaye Jayle’s stripped-back noir in fact owes more to Krautrock than the blues, while Evan Patterson’s baritone croon brings to mind Angels of Light-era Michael Gira. Jaye Jayle unsurprisingly count Spacemen 3, Neu!, and Lungfish among their varied influences, while arriving at a sound wholly unusual in the American underground. To make that a more accessible, how about Seasick Steve with a smattering of Kraftwerk? ‘About Time You Came To Me’ throbs and burns with a latent aggression, feeling like it should explode, yet it self-restrains and bubbles against the groove. ‘Unnecessarily’ finds Patterson channelling his inner Iggy Pop over a rhythm made menacing by its sheer unwillingness to break form. Closer ‘Hope Faith County’ is hypnotic and assured. Accomplished and captivating.</p><p>Get reacquainted with Emma Ruth Rundle and introduced to Jaye Jayle.</p><p><a href="https://altdialogue.com/2017/02/17/ep-review-the-time-between-us-by-emma-ruth-rundle-jaye-jayle/" target="_blank">(via Alt Dialogue)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45824692017-02-08T15:34:47-08:002017-02-08T19:17:57-08:00Jaye Jayle premieres new track from “The Time Between Us” split with Emma Ruth Rundle<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="116" data-orig-width="318"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/761449593fbdf22af2c4957416cf9048/tumblr_inline_ol2fdaEQ0K1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="630" data-orig-width="630"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/19f8371af2ae3882ec2485f36b5817e5/tumblr_inline_ol2fe6xIo41qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="92" data-orig-width="636"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/7a175356226060e10a0bbba0cae0ff44/tumblr_inline_ol2fefWScd1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><b><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a></b>, the solo project of Young Widows singer Evan Patterson, is releasing a six-song split EP with <b><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></b> called <i>The Time Between Us</i> on February 24 via Sargent House (<a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">pre-order</a>). We’re premiering one of Jaye Jayle’s contributions, “Unnecessarily,” a slow-burner with a creepy vocal delivery from Evan that’s kinda somewhere between Nick Cave and Michael Gira. Check that out, along with one of Emma’s contributions, “The Distance,” below.</p><p>Jaye Jayle and Emma Ruth Rundle are touring Europe together this year, and they both have separate upcoming North American tours.</p><p>Jaye Jayle is on the upcoming <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/oathbreaker-announce-tour-with-khemmis-sannhet-jaye-jayle-more/" target="_blank">Oathbreaker tour</a>, which also includes <b>King Woman, Khemmis</b> and <b>Sannhet</b> on varying dates. The run with Oathbreaker, Jaye Jayle and Sannhet hits NYC on <b>April 8 at The Studio at Webster Hall</b>. <a href="http://bit.ly/2iK20gq" target="_blank"><b>Tickets</b></a> for that show are still available. All dates are listed below.</p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle, who released the excellent <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bon-iver-danny-brown-oathbreaker-emma-ruth-rundle-jenny-hval-reviews/" target="_blank"><i>Marked For Death</i></a> last year, is on the <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/deafheaven-this-will-destroy-you-emma-ruth-rundle-announce-tour/" target="_blank">Deafheaven / This Will Destroy You tour</a>. That tour hits NYC on <b>March 14 at Warsaw</b>. <a href="http://bit.ly/2k06To0" target="_blank"><b>Tickets</b></a> for that show are still available too. All dates after the break.</p><p><iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306592451&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe></p><p><iframe width="100%" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w9LgIOx6WJ8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><!-- more --><p><b>Emma Ruth Rundle — 2017 North American Tour Dates</b><br></p><p>Feb 21 Los Angeles, CA – Complex #<br>Feb 23 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (Noise Pop) – SOLD OUT<br>Feb 24 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>Feb 26 Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse Saloon *<br>Feb 28 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister *<br>Mar 02 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk *<br>Mar 03 Dallas, TX @ Trees *<br>Mar 04 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio *<br>Mar 05 New Orleans, LA @ The Republic NOLA *<br>Mar 06 Birmingham, AL @ Saturn ^<br>Mar 07 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *<br>Mar 08 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge *<br>Mar 10 Charlotte, NC @ The Underground *<br>Mar 11 Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry *<br>Mar 12 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage *<br>Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts *<br>Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw *<br>Mar 15 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *<br>Mar 17 Detroit, MI @ Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall *<br>Mar 18 Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theater *<br>Mar 19 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall *<br>Mar 20 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line *<br>Mar 21 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room *<br>Mar 23 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall *<br>Mar 24 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *<br>Mar 25 Boise, ID @ Treefort Fest *<br>Mar 26 Seattle, WA @ Neumos *<br>Mar 27 Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall *<br>Mar 29 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios %</p><p># w/ Black Mare, Petheaven<br>* w/ Deafheaven, This Will Destroy You<br>^ w/ Deafheaven<br>% w/ Dark Red Seed, Braveyoung</p><p>—</p><p><b>Jaye Jayle — 2017 North American Tour Dates</b><br>Feb 25 Louisville, KY @ The Clifton Center<br>Mar 15 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts *<br>Mar 16 Washington, DC @ DC9 *<br>Mar 17 Asheville, NC @ Mothlight *<br>Mar 18 Nashville, TN @ The End *<br>Mar 19 Orlanda, FL @ Backbooth *<br>Mar 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl *<br>Mar 22 Dallas, TX @ Three Links *<br>Mar 23 Houston, TX @ Walter’s *<br>Mar 24 Austin, TX @ Sidewinder *<br>Mar 26 Mesa, AZ @ The Underground ^<br>Mar 27 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ^<br>Mar 28 Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy ^<br>Mar 29 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside ^<br>Mar 30 Portland, OR @ Ash Street Saloon ^<br>Mar 31 Seattle, WA @ Highline ^<br>Apr 01 Boise, ID @ The Shredder ^<br>Apr 02 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge ^<br>Apr 03 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater ^<br>Apr 04 Kansas, MO @ The Riot Room ^<br>Apr 05 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean ^<br>Apr 06 Detroit, MI @ El Club ^<br>Apr 08 New York, NY @ Webster Hall #<br>Apr 09 Boston, MA @ Great Scott #<br>Jul 14-16 Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival</p><p>* w/ Oathbreaker, King Woman<br>^ w/ Oathbreaker, Khemmis<br># w/ Oathbreaker, Sannhet</p><p>—</p><p><b>Emma Ruth Rundle / Jaye Jayle — 2017 European Tour Dates</b><br>Apr 20 Lisbon, PT @ Sabotage *<br>Apr 21 Porto, PT @ Understage / Rivoli *<br>Apr 22 Villa Real, PT @ Club de Villa Real *<br>Apr 23 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival<br>Apr 24 Utretcht, NL @ Tivoli<br>Apr 25 Liege, BE @ Reflektor<br>Apr 26 London, UK @ The Lexington<br>Apr 28 Leeuwarden, NL @ Asteriks<br>Apr 29 Paris, FR @ OTB Fest Nights<br>Apr 30 Den Haag, NL @ Paard<br>May 02 Munich, DE @ Ampere<br>May 03 Nuremberg, DE @ Club Stereo<br>May 04 Munster, DE @ Gleis 22<br>May 05 Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree<br>May 06 Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend *<br>May 07 Hamburg, DE @ Prinzenbar *<br>May 09 Malmo, SE @ Plan B *<br>May 10 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken Stockholm *</p><p>* Emma Ruth Rundle ONLY</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45670942017-01-27T14:49:28-08:002017-01-27T18:05:47-08:00The Revue Review’s Emma Ruth Rundle’s “The Distance”<figure data-orig-height="44" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/d002c9b3aea055cc86de85e7a95a21d7/tumblr_inline_okgn4bBzKA1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1200" data-orig-width="1200"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/2d2131cabcbfd70259ddfdd016fe5de9/tumblr_inline_okgn7bbFEu1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is unquestionably one of the best and fiercest singer-songwriters today. Her 2016 album, <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked for Death</a>, was a beautifully stark and moving experience. Many recognized the LP as one of the year’s best, including being named one of our <a href="http://therevue.ca/2016/12/20/favorite-50-albums-of-2016-part-2/" target="_blank">Favorite 50 Albums of 2016</a> (and number one on Ben’s list).</p><p>Rundle is back already with new music, as she and fellow singer-songwriter <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> will release a split EP next month. The first single from Rundle’s half is “<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/the-distance" target="_blank">The Distance</a>”. Like everything she has done, this song is beautifully crippling. The track feels like a continuation of Marked For Death. However, instead of waltzing with the Grim Reaper, Rundle is dancing with time, space, and a fleeting memory. Her storytelling is once again immaculate, and her unforgettable, stark guitar lines return to haunt our minds. “Distance” has us craving more, and fortunately we’ll get to hear two more very soon (and unfortunately since it’s only three songs in total).</p><p>The video for the song can be viewed on YouTube. The single is from Emma Ruth Rundle and Jaye Jayle’s split EP, The <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">Time Between Us</a>. It arrives February 24th via <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>.</p><p>Via <a href="http://therevue.ca/2017/01/27/the-matinee-january-27th/" target="_blank">The Revue</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45652722017-01-26T10:54:58-08:002017-01-26T13:17:15-08:00CLRVYNT Premieres Emma Ruth Rundle’s “The Distance”<figure data-orig-height="78" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/860263a8a82bf8191d5e604265ba6f2a/tumblr_inline_okehfjuxDF1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1250" data-orig-width="1366"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/68004ac8739f081f537c969c55a43742/tumblr_inline_okehfxSmgB1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> released one of last year’s most darkly beautiful records in Marked for Death. It cemented her work beyond her time in <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> and Red Sparowes, showing how intricate, yet subtly expressive she can be. This February, she’s set to release <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/the-time-between-us" target="_blank">The Time Between Us</a>, a new split EP with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/jaye-jayle" target="_blank">Jaye Jayle</a> — the solo project of Young Widows’ Evan Pattersond — on Sargent House.</p><p>Today, she’s premiering “<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/the-distance" target="_blank">The Distance</a>,” a five-minute epic that expands upon what she accomplished on Marked for Death. Her voice sounds otherworldly; there’s a mystical quality to her singing that displaces you from wherever you’re hearing it. The guitars are understated, strumming sounds that seem to reverberate out into the stars. The atmosphere shifts, Rundle’s crooning becoming more intense and heartfelt over the rest of the songs. It’s an overture for something bigger, how much further she can go.</p><p>Hear the song below, pre-order The Time Between Us from Sargent House, and catch both Emma Ruth Rundle and Jaye Jayle on tour (dates below):</p><p><b>EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 2017</b><br>Feb 23 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (Noise Pop) - SOLD OUT<br>Feb 24 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>Feb 26 Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse Saloon<br>Feb 28 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister<br>Mar 02 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk<br>Mar 03 Dallas, TX @ Trees<br>Mar 04 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio<br>Mar 05 New Orleans, LA @ The Republic NOLA<br>Mar 09 Birmingham, AL @ Saturn (w/ Deafheaven) <br>Mar 07 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade<br>Mar 08 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge<br>Mar 10 Charlotte, NC @ The Underground<br>Mar 11 Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry<br>Mar 12 Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage<br>Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts <br>Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw<br>Mar 15 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club<br>Mar 17 Detroit, MI @ Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall<br>Mar 18 Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theater<br>Mar 19 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall<br>Mar 20 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line<br>Mar 21 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room<br>Mar 23 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall<br>Mar 24 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge<br>Mar 25 Boise, ID @ Treefort Fest<br>Mar 26 Seattle, WA @ Neumos<br>Mar 27 Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall<br>Mar 29 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios w/ Dark Red Seed, Braveyoung</p><p>All dates above with Deafheaven & This Will Destroy You unless otherwise noted</p><p><b>EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & JAYE JAYLE EU 2017</b><br>Apr 20 Lisbon, PT @ Sabotage *<br>Apr 21 Porto, PT @ Understage / Rivoli *<br>Apr 22 Villa Real, PT @ Club de Villa Real *<br>Apr 23 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival<br>Apr 24 Utretcht, NL @ Tivoli<br>Apr 25 Liege, BE @ Reflektor<br>Apr 26 London, UK @ The Lexington <br>Apr 28 Leeuwarden, NL @ Asteriks <br>Apr 29 Paris, FR @ OTB Fest Nights <br>Apr 30 Den Haag, NL @ Paard<br>May 02 Munich, DE @ Ampere<br>May 03 Nuremberg, DE @ Club Stereo<br>May 04 Munster, DE @ Gleis 22<br>May 05 Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree<br>May 06 Copenhagen, DK @ A Colossal Weekend *<br>May 07 Hamburg, DE @ Prinzenbar <br>May 09 Malmo, SE @ Plan B *<br>May 10 Stockholm, SE @ Kraken Stockholm *</p><p>* Emma Ruth Rundle ONLY</p><p>Via <a href="http://clrvynt.com/emma-ruth-rundle-the-distance/" target="_blank">CLRVYNT</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45571042017-01-19T17:08:51-08:002017-01-19T20:47:10-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle releases “Forever, As The Setting Son” for the benefit of Planned Parenthood<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="750" data-orig-width="750"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/4b773bc319e598f18a7e1b671fb8ab88/tumblr_inline_ok1y80NiKR1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>Singer/songwriter <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has posted a never-before-heard song “Forever, as the Setting Son” for sale today on <a href="http://t.ymlp27.com/uswhbazaejyjuaoawysaaau/click.php" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> for $1.00 or donation amount of your choice. 100% of the proceeds from the song’s sale will be donated to <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood</a>. </p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle commented: “’Forever, as the Setting Son’ was written and recorded in a humble lo-fi setting in Los Angeles some years ago. Yes it’s ‘Son’ and yes it’s noisy and emotional, all reasons why I couldn’t bring myself to ever re-track this song. I find myself filled with grief these days, similar to that expressed in the song, over many of the issues we as humans, as tenants of the Earth, will face in the coming era. While I am unable to join the marches set to take place all over the U.S. on Saturday, I would like to offer this song and will be donating all the proceeds to Planned Parenthood. I have been grateful for them in my life, as a young woman, and hope that we can come together to preserve the future of such an important institution in this divisive time so that they may continue to provide care for people of all races, religions, sexes, countries of origin, all genders. Be excellent to each other.” </p><p>Listen to the song at the player below.</p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=1342731092/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/forever-as-the-setting-son" target="_blank">Forever, As The Setting Son by Emma Ruth Rundle</a></iframe>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45345502017-01-02T13:20:02-08:002017-01-02T18:47:16-08:00More Best of 2016 Lists: Echoes and Dust, Destroy//Exist<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1200" data-orig-width="1200"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/94536f396546e5c9419d35bd9a0aea23/tumblr_inline_oj68cayItH1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="51" data-orig-width="643"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/a26ad33ab64783961d5335767b251464/tumblr_inline_oj68etCbdN1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="216" data-orig-width="570"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/b968b18a3638cb88f2bf88b2186216f1/tumblr_inline_oj68i8mIIu1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>With Marked For Death, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has composed a complex piece of work that rocks, soothes, haunts, saddens and uplifts. It is an album that deals honestly with self-doubt and introspection, that offers no easy answers but leaves room for growth and hope. She has said that she wants this album to be the end of an era of sorts, and that she hopes to explore new avenues of musical creation in the coming years. If this is truly the closing chapter of one book prior to the opening of another, then it is a climax that no one will soon forget.<br></p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="159" data-orig-width="500"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/a1ee764d20843a32d38210f51983c868/tumblr_inline_oj689r7tqc1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Two years after her previous solo album, <i>Some Heavy Ocean</i> and one after her critically acclaimed collaboration with <a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, Emma Ruth Rundle returned with a dark record sharply titled <i>Marked For Death</i>, which displayed her tremendous growth as a songwriter and performer.<br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45148732016-12-16T14:03:54-08:002016-12-16T18:33:17-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle On The Alternative’s Top 30 Of 2016<figure data-orig-height="170" data-orig-width="170"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/9dd91c8e1177ef737e81d37efba13e4a/tumblr_inline_oiat5gYkDA1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="700" data-orig-width="700"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/5520c622dd1c274734dd105e8be1bdb2/tumblr_inline_oiat5mUreY1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="204" data-orig-width="1358"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/bc44ae6d83b8c9f4a60f504914a5b79c/tumblr_inline_oiat5rJ5CF1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>12. Emma Ruth Rundle - <i><a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a></i></p><p>Talk about instrumental layering, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has a knack of creating wonderful atmospheres, even if its gritty and unapologetic. Even with all of that, finding the strokes of beauty in an album such as this really show that having a sense of hope can grow out of utter despair, or at least I hope.</p><p>For a full list see <a href="http://www.getalternative.com/staff-list-seans-top-30-albums-2016/" target="_blank">The Alternative</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45133852016-12-15T14:36:43-08:002016-12-15T19:33:50-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle On GoldFlakePaint’s Essentials of 2016<figure data-orig-height="67" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/7390faaca0542b0d6069658d171ed966/tumblr_inline_oi8zqnMW9g1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="700" data-orig-width="700"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/5520c622dd1c274734dd105e8be1bdb2/tumblr_inline_oi8zqs8nAU1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure data-orig-height="114" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e3174128641c2b8f4f6e1f0571a33d7b/tumblr_inline_oi8zs0Kj5m1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>I have a distinct memory of visiting a ‘haunted house’ at the local fairground when I was younger, only to find myself completely dismayed when finding out that it was nothing more than some glow-in-the-dark tomfoolery and a guy in a gorilla costume who jumped on your carriage at the end of the ride (Why a gorilla? Tell me about it). <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s ‘<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a>’ is not that. This is a record that decisively indicates what’s to be found within then duly delivers with a thundering, fearsome bout of heavyweight indie rock. Marked for death? You better damn well believe it.</p><p>Something like Cat Power battling her way through the heaviest of thunderstorms, the new record is a marked stride forward in to the abyss from her 2014 ‘<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>’ LP, the eight tracks on ‘Marked For Death’ positively burn with intensity, even before you dig in to the wildly striking set of lyrics that accompany these dramatic compositions. Indicative of the soaring, stifling nature of the record as a whole, the opening, and title, track stands as one of the year’s most ominous tracks; “Who else is going to love someone like you that’s marked for death?” Rundle bellows with all the fiery ferocity of someone who sees the world a little differently to most. A monumental effort not for the weary-hearted; but a monumental effort all the same.</p><p><br></p><p>Via <a href="http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/essential-albums-of-2016/" target="_blank">GoldFlakePaint</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45128772016-12-15T10:25:57-08:002016-12-15T13:47:21-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle On Transcending Obscurity’s Best of 2016<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="71" data-orig-width="400"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/487535a66d36382e52fe761474b98c25/tumblr_inline_oi8odeNXVJ1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="700" data-orig-width="700"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/5520c622dd1c274734dd105e8be1bdb2/tumblr_inline_oi8ogeVIHR1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>I know I’m following up a non-metal album with another, but <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s third full length ‘<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a>’ really deserves the spotlight. Known for her work in Red Sparowes and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, Emma Ruth Rundle’s solo releases have gone off in different directions. This one retains some of the singer/songwriter and folk elements, but skews more towards post rock and some surprisingly heavy instrumentation. Listen to Protection if you want an example of just how sprawling and heavy ‘Marked For Death’ can be, as softer layers spread over the verses until they build to a climax of crashing guitar riffs and pounding percussion. It reminds me of darker folk interspersed with bursts of post rock and shoegaze, all melded together into an album that’s fragile and powerful at the same time. Emma Ruth Rundle’s singing plays a large role in this, with softer passages giving off a haunting presence before picking up into much louder, forceful ones that command your attention. In the past she’s been known more for her work with other bands rather than her solo efforts, but ‘Marked For Death’ should be the album that changes this perception. There’s a considerable amount of depth to this release, and it’s worth dedicating some time to.</p><p>Via <a href="http://tometal.com/special-feature-best-of-2016-chris-dahlberg-to-staff/" target="_blank">Transcending Obscurity</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45112362016-12-14T12:07:18-08:002016-12-14T14:47:11-08:00“Marked For Death” in Music & Riots Top 20 Alternative Pop & Indie Folk of 2016<figure data-orig-width="619" data-orig-height="134" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/d63108bcd6f326d2490c9b54530f0cf3/tumblr_inline_oi6x5zdFyw1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="800" data-orig-height="600" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/4e9b4cf29a5e9a35c7e0015c2fe810fa/tumblr_inline_oi6xo4M2YU1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="764" data-orig-height="126" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/c3942e89c81ca986d371dbc50ce9104e/tumblr_inline_oi6x5sNXxR1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1200" data-orig-height="1200" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/94536f396546e5c9419d35bd9a0aea23/tumblr_inline_oi6xuzhtPr1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>On her second solo album, Emma is expressing everything in the deepest way possible and she clearly wanted to deal with everything that has happened to her through the music. With ongoing health and personal issues, this album is a culmination of all of her experiences. Each song has its meaning and its feeling, all autobiographical. Even the album’s artwork is a self-portrait of hers, reflecting how much this is raw and straight to the point. With a season of change, Marked For Death is the perfect record to listen to through a gloomy autumn day. Nature is changing with the weather as Emma is evolving with her experiences and her ability to create something beautiful from painful events.</p><p>(Andreia Alves) // Listen at <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a></p><p><a href="http://musicandriots.com/top-20-best-alternative-pop-indie-folk-albums-of-2016/" target="_blank">(via Music & Riots)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45028252016-12-08T10:22:14-08:002016-12-08T15:47:09-08:00Bearded Gentlemen Conversation w/ Emma Ruth Rundle<figure data-orig-height="91" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/a0e2ef62a3f32ad551f4cb2ad9f8d0a4/tumblr_inline_ohvp7k3h9q1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="920" data-orig-width="1254"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/b6708ea211c71809e7f9b69cc35cfb2c/tumblr_inline_ohvp8lTwwE1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Singer/songwriter,<a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank"> Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, released her newest studio album, Marked For Death, at the end of September. Rundle, of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> and Red Sparowes fame, now has three solo efforts to her name. This newest album being her greatest and heaviest yet. <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a> is a riveting composition that sees Emma confront herself and deeper personal issues over the course of eight songs. In addition to being a talented musician, Emma is a visual artist. She expresses herself through watercolor, oils, and pencil on canvas, depicting emotional complexities that often resembles the content of her music. Jon Robertson and I were fortunate enough for the opportunity to send Emma some questions regarding her new solo album as well as her time in Marriages and her visual art.</p><!-- more --><p><b>Cody Davis:</b> We are roughly two years removed from your last solo album, Some Heavy Ocean, and last year you, Greg, and Andrew released a brilliant Marriages album. I read you were simultaneously recording Some Heavy Ocean and Marriages’ Salome. What was balancing these two projects at the same time like?</p><p><b>Emma Ruth Rundle:</b> Greetings. Thank you both for your kind words and interest in my musical endeavors. Actually, there was no overlap between Some Heavy Ocean and Salomé. We started recording Salomé around the time Some Heavy Ocean was released. The difficulty that this presented was that I was on tour with King Buzzo when it came time to give Salomé the final mix and was maybe a bit checked out. I think the vocals and guitars on Salomé suffered for this reason. </p><p><b>Jon Robertson:</b> What are the biggest differences between writing solo material and material with Marriages, both musically and lyrically? How do decide what songs or lyrics go to which project?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: From the very beginning Marriages has very much been a collaboration between Greg Burns and myself. Andrew was, of course, a big part of Salomé as well. </p><p>I would say that the collaborative aspect is what defines the biggest difference. In Marriages I feel more of a vehicle for exploring broader themes or concepts lyrically; for example, Kitsuné touched on the transformative aspect of the Shinto fox spirit possession whereas my solo work is autobiographical in a more direct way, though I sometimes use mythological and religious iconography as tools. </p><p><b>JR</b>: The press release for Marked for Death talks about the “candid, unglamorous cover portrait” for the album. What is the concept or inspiration behind choosing this image?</p><p>The cover photo is a self-portrait I took out in the Pinion Hills desert house (the farm, Sargent House) where I recorded Marked For Death. I had been into photography and wanted to document some of the writing and recording processes. I’m very proud of that photo. I believe it captures an aspect of myself that was in the ruling house when I made this record. It’s raw and honest. I see a path in the music biz that wants to walk women down the production line of mainstream, idealized feminine beauty. There is no way of saying this without opening the doors to an argument of some kind with someone these days- for my 12-year-old self, I offer an alternative to the primed and packaged people we see. I wanted to challenge my own ego as well. In a way, it’s a confrontation of the self. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Marked for Death presents itself as a conduit for many tumultuous and deeply personal feelings. I understand it can be quite a cathartic experience but do you ever find it difficult to convey these feelings through your music? </p><p><b>ERR</b>: The difficulty lies in having to tour, talk about and relive the content after the record is finished. </p><p><b>CD</b>: <a href="http://www.sonnyrecordsthings.com" target="_blank">Sonny DiPerri</a> was brought in to engineer and help produce Marked for Death, who last had his hands in <a href="https://mizmor.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Mizmor’s</a> harrowing Yodh (which is an amazing construct of blackened doom metal). He has also worked with M83 and Animal Collective among many other projects. What did DiPerri bring to the Marked for Death sessions that were different from the production of Some Heavy Ocean?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: Ah! Mizmor. I am both a friend and a fan. Our community if often smaller than some may know and I love that about music now. </p><p>Sonny is a fantastic human. Recording and working with him was great. He’s got a highly tuned aesthetic – we listened to many of the same records growing up and in preparation for our collaboration. I came to trust him quickly. Sonny really listens and is present for every step of the record making process and I found his work invaluable. </p><p>While we did bring the studio into the residential setting of the vacant farm, it was a grueling lockdown for 10 days, much more traditional than the lax meandering schedule Some Heavy Ocean “adhered to.”</p><p><b>JR</b>: Who are the musicians who played on Marked for Death and who played what? Is it a similar lineup to Some Heavy Ocean?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: The eminent Troy Zeigler (Field, Wrath of Sad) on bass. You already know Andrew Clinco, of Marriages, on drums and percussion. The unique spirit Andrea Calderon (Corima – a must-listen zhuel/prog ensemble) on violin. There is also some guest ghost vocal lent by Aurielle Zeitler (Ghost Marrow). And Sonny does shred some mellotron and swarmatron in there. Jason Adams lends one sweet cello line in the song “Marked For Death” too. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Marked for Death is much darker and visceral than Some Heavy Ocean. “Protection”, “Medusa”, and “Heaven”, for example, have these eruptions of guitars and reverb and “Real Big Sky” is an original, gritty demo. Was this more morose sound a preconceived idea prior to writing or was this something that manifested itself as the album developed?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: I wonder if this would still seem the case minus drums. The biggest shift from Some Heavy Ocean to Marked For Death is the addition of full drum kit. I was really on the fence about going this heavier route, arrangement wise. I was afraid it might preclude me from touring the album without a band, which is actually what I’m doing right now in Europe in support of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/wovenhand" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a>. </p><p>In the end, I set out to make an emotionally potent album and chose instrumentation that I felt suited each song. </p><p>All of this music was written on an acoustic guitar. The songs came from my heart. I certainly didn’t set out to be the king of sad or anything. Authenticity is the goal. If anything, this process has helped me to want to move on to a brighter place. To change and overcome. To write more empowered or somehow lighter music. Singing these lyrics every night is taking me back to the low. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Continuing from the last question. Where did the idea to keep the original demo version of “Real Big Sky” come from? For the record, I am a huge fan of this idea. It is a beautiful song. </p><p><b>ERR</b>: Thanks. It’s not the actual demo but a recreation. We approached the song in several ways while in the studio. The original demo was recorded on my iPhone. It’s a capture of me playing my acoustic guitar through a little-distorted vox amp and singing in a trailer out there in the desert. We recreated it in a pure and simple way by running spas guitar through an SVT, only doing 1 to 2 takes. Keeping the performance honest, grating and simple/pure. Ha. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Are there any moments on this new record that resonate with you personally more than others? Any particular song that strikes a deeper chord with you mentally or emotionally?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: It’s “Real Big Sky” for sure. There’s a little film Brandon Kapelow made that goes along with it which came out beautifully and I think it captures some of that backstory and emotion nicely. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Switching gears to current and future plans. You are in the midst of a European tour with Wovenhand currently. Are there any upcoming stops on this tour you are particularly excited to see or have already seen? European culture is strikingly different than American culture, it has to be cool to experience what the world offers. </p><p><b>ERR</b>: Tis true. I’m working on my infantile German skills in the car actually. It’s a great honor to share a stage with Wovenhand and a privilege to travel and play music. Something we make personal sacrifices to be able to experience. I never want to seem ungrateful for any of this. The world is so fascinating and beautiful. To see it is my most favorite thing. Especially the changing landscapes and natural beauty. I would so love to visit Asia one day and both play and listen to music there, too. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Do you have any near-future plans for a North American tour?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: Yes. They are not quite announced yet but I might be able to say soon. </p><p><b>JR</b>: Is there any new Marriages material on the horizon?</p><p><b>ERR</b>: None that is as of now written. It’s my intention to continue Marriages down the road and perhaps we will see something in 2017/18. </p><p><b>CD</b>: I recently read that you have wanted to be a painter from a young age and that you are getting ready to take on more paintings this year. Do you have any desires to see your visual art become your more notable artistic expression? <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/visual-art" target="_blank">Your visual art seems to follow in a similar vein as your music</a>. Holistically, it appears to create this total package of complex emotional states (from my perspective at least.)</p><p><b>ERR</b>: Thank you for taking note of this. To be honest, shifting my focus over time from rock music to ambient music and visual arts would be ideal for several reasons however the little success I have gained as a musician is not necessarily reflected in the success of my visual art. The art and music sort of evolve hand-in-hand and there were several points in my life where I was torn between which one to pursue. I didn’t last in the academic atmosphere anyway… I think of myself as an artist moving through many mediums – all the time – exploring different instruments as well as materials from ink to video – master of none ever but I guess that’s not the point. </p><p><b>CD</b>: Emma, thank you so much again for taking the time to answer our questions. It is truly an honor to discuss great music and art with the people who craft it. We wish you the safest of travels and best of luck in Europe and when you return stateside. Hopefully, we’ll be able to see you soon on your next United States circuit!</p><p>Via <a href="http://beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2016/12/07/interview-with-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Bearded Gentlemen Music</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/45013492016-12-07T10:37:40-08:002016-12-07T17:03:55-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle In Treble’s Top Albums And Top Songs Of 2016<figure data-orig-height="83" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/15314f8d0923d0f12802f082f0cb9e75/tumblr_inline_ohtva3WZtc1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="700" data-orig-width="700"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/5520c622dd1c274734dd105e8be1bdb2/tumblr_inline_ohtv8173ce1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><b>#21 Album of 2016: Marked For Death</b></p><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s made some powerful statements as a player in a greater whole, as a member of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> and Red Sparowes. Her third album as a solo artist is the one that carries the heaviest weight, however, its eight songs mired in both emotional devastation and ominous beauty. Recorded during the winter in the California desert, its chilling and often stark atmosphere reflects the surroundings in which it was made. Her songs evade easy categorization—gothic folk with a side of doom metal perhaps, as displayed in the haunted rise and fall of the title track or the skeletal ballad <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/real-big-sky" target="_blank">“Real Big Sky,”</a> which closes the album on an emotional gut punch that leaves an even deeper and more painful mark than the album’s loudest songs—which are devastating in their own right. <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a> gains its power from hopelessness and transforms it into eerie, sometimes crushingly heavy beauty—wounded clarity in the eye of a storm of swirling guitars. – Jeff Terich</p><p><b>#32 Song of 2016: “Protection”</b></p><p>“<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/protection" target="_blank">Protection</a>” is a continuous downward spiral into hopelessness and despair. On a record in which darkness is a constant, draped over anything and everything instead of merely nipping at the heels, “Protection” finds something climactic and anthemic about hitting a low. Emma Ruth Rundle portrays an unreciprocated dependency in terms both evocative (“Heaven sends him down to me“) and unglamorous (“I am worthless in your arms“) while finding a sort of romantic irony in it all: “But you offer this protection no one has given me.” As she grazes rock bottom, it explodes into a powerful, almost metal climax. Each echoing guitar riff parallels the comfort of those coldly protective arms, delivering triumph where there should only be defeat – Jeff Terich</p><p>Via Treble Magazine’s <a href="http://www.treblezine.com/33010-top-50-best-albums-of-2016/3/" target="_blank">Top Albums of 2016</a> and <a href="http://www.treblezine.com/32700-top-100-best-songs-of-2016/7/" target="_blank">Top Songs of 2016</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44974172016-12-05T11:10:49-08:002016-12-05T13:16:50-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle’s “Protection” In Treble’s Top Songs of 2016<figure data-orig-height="83" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/15314f8d0923d0f12802f082f0cb9e75/tumblr_inline_ohq7oaXkvt1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="300" data-orig-width="300"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/195274776edb26e73eb5c087f5501cdb/tumblr_inline_ohq7vp8uHQ1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="196" data-orig-width="906"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/d27b0a6ad50f71423deb019df682cc0a/tumblr_inline_ohq7wrYQ241rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>#32: “<a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/track/protection" target="_blank">Protection</a>” is a continuous downward spiral into hopelessness and despair. On a record in which darkness is a constant, draped over anything and everything instead of merely nipping at the heels, “Protection” finds something climactic and anthemic about hitting a low. <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> portrays an unreciprocated dependency in terms both evocative (“Heaven sends him down to me“) and unglamorous (“I am worthless in your arms“) while finding a sort of romantic irony in it all: “But you offer this protection no one has given me.” As she grazes rock bottom, it explodes into a powerful, almost metal climax. Each echoing guitar riff parallels the comfort of those coldly protective arms, delivering triumph where there should only be defeat – Jeff Terich</p><p>Via <a href="http://www.treblezine.com/32700-top-100-best-songs-of-2016/7/" target="_blank">Treble</a> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44874512016-11-28T10:51:17-08:002016-12-02T12:02:02-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces U.S. Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1669" data-orig-width="1080"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/fd25dc468671ef6d6904b13559a0d75c/tumblr_inline_ohd80j3fW21rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be heading on a U.S. with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and <a href="http://thiswilldestroyyou.net" target="_blank">This Will Destroy You</a>. Dates listed below. Tickets will be on sale later this week. </p>
<p><b>DEAFHEAVEN // THIS WILL DESTROY YOU // EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 2017</b><br>Feb 23 San Francisco, CA –The Independent (Noise Pop)<br>Feb 26 Las Vegas, NV – The Bunkhouse Saloon<br>Feb 28 Albuquerque, NM – Sister<br>Mar 02 Austin, TX – The Mohawk<br>Mar 03 Dallas, TX – Trees<br>Mar 04 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio<br>Mar 05 New Orleans, LA – The Republic NOLA<br>Mar 07 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade<br>Mar 08 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge<br>Mar 10 Charlotte, NC – The Underground<br>Mar 11 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry<br>Mar 12 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage<br>Mar 13 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts <br>Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw<br>Mar 15 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club<br>Mar 17 Detroit, MI – Shelter at St. Andrew’s Hall<br>Mar 18 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theater<br>Mar 19 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall<br>Mar 20 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line<br>Mar 21 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room<br>Mar 23 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall<br>Mar 24 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge<br>Mar 25 Boise, ID – Treefort Fest<br>Mar 26 Seattle, WA – Neumos<br>Mar 27 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44781092016-11-21T11:36:05-08:002016-11-21T16:04:16-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Interview By Overblown<figure data-orig-height="61" data-orig-width="250"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/db526570b9101c3906d023e77839418b/tumblr_inline_oh0b3jRqPH1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="696" data-orig-width="1050"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/50d321e289fdbfbd4b90301437e117cb/tumblr_inline_oh0b3tnNmr1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="264" data-orig-width="960"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/49cd25afff4d740be5e63ddd2ebe2128/tumblr_inline_oh0b3vtnCy1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>I can vividly recall the first time I listened to singer-songwriter <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. I was about to cook dinner and looking for something to accompany my endeavour. I’d received an email about Rundle and so decided to give her a shot. I then burned the dinner. Such is the captivating nature of the LA native’s work.</p><p>Honest and heart felt, her songs are intense and emotional. Drawing on emotions of heartbreak and loss, she creates quietly defiant tracks that are truly beautiful somewhat like pearls made from parasites that invade oysters and clams.</p><p>She took some time to speak to us about her new album, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a>, touring with King Buzzo from the Melvins, and what inspires her music.</p><!-- more --><p><b>Overblown: Marked For Death is your second solo album. What inspired you to release solo albums away from your work with Red Sparowes and Marriages?</b></p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle: I did release an ambient solo album called Electric Guitar: One before Some Heavy Ocean but its often overlooked due to its over lack of vocals. To answer your question, I have always made music alone, Cathy and Sargent House just gave me to opportunity to release it. My relationship with Sargent House has greatly influenced the path my career in music has taken over the last 6 years. Red Sparrows isn’t an active band and Marriages is sort of on hold for the moment too. Being a solo artist as well as a member of several bands makes it easier for me to keep working and not necessarily need to rely on others.</p><p><b>O: For me, your music is a quite beguiling mixture of folk with post metal. Is that a fair description of your music?</b></p><p>ERR: If it works for you, thats fine. I like the sounds of post-metal folk as a genre but I’m not very invested in descriptors. People ask me what I do and I say I play guitar.</p><p><b>O: When writing and recording Marked For Death, did you have any particular goal or intended end result in mind?</b></p><p>ERR: I wanted to make an emotionally raw and honest album- that was the goal.</p><p><b>O: You recently released a music video for ‘Real Big Sky’. In the video you talk about how natural beauty, or things that aren’t created by people, touches you more than things created by humans. Do you strive for that feeling when you create music?</b></p><p>ERR: Its not at the forefront of my thoughts when writing for this or the last album. When I approach guitar textures in recording or when working on ambient music, yes – landscape is part of the process.</p><p><b>O: After you released your first solo album, Some Heavy Ocean, you toured the US with King Buzzo from Melvins. What was that experience like?</b></p><p>ERR: It was a real honor to tour with King Buzzo. I learned a lot about being a professional in music from him as well as a great deal regarding performance, which was impossible not to glean after endless nights of watching him. He is a worthy hero in all regards and a very genuine man.</p><p><b>O: One of my favourite songs on Marked For Death is ‘Heaven’. I love how it is both delicate and yet muscular at the same time. What inspired that song?</b></p><p>ERR: I was on a particularly low down swing emotional and was thinking of my Granny Ruth. Most of my lyrics are fairly obvious and I think with a little reading the listener will not have a hard time being able to discern the meanings, themes and story of the song.</p><p><b>O: Who would be your ideal musician, living or dead, to collaborate with and why?</b></p><p>ERR: Patrick Walker, 40 Watt Sun. The Inside Room has been my favorite record for a while now.</p><p><b>O: Who or what inspired you to pick a musical instrument in the first place?</b></p><p>ERR: All three of my parents are musicians so maybe it wasn’t a choice but the story goes like this: After a massive earthquake in my hometown, Los Angeles, my mother took my sister and I into legendary folk store McCabe’s and told us we could each pick one instrument and that we would be allowed to rent it and be afforded some lessons. I chose the celtic harp and later went on to work in that music center for a whole 13 years.</p><p><b>O: What is your favourite song you have written and why?</b></p><p>ERR: ‘Real Big Sky’ – its very simple and humble in way. Its very human and from the heart.</p><p>Via <a href="http://overblown.co.uk/emma-ruth-rundle-interview/" target="_blank">Overblown</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44684582016-11-15T11:34:54-08:002016-11-15T15:47:08-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle To Play Roadburn Festival<p><figure data-orig-width="650" data-orig-height="918" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/af17680e95935e8ba95e48c84a574651/tumblr_inline_ogp57pkeer1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>The intense intimacy and open vulnerability of a live <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> show probably won’t be a surprise to anybody who has listened to her latest release, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a>. It’s an album that feels a little bit like you’re reading somebody’s private journals – but they’re left wide open for you, nothing to hide, nowhere to hide. During her sets on her recent tour around Europe, so enraptured were the audiences that you could have heard a pin drop; Rundle had them bewitched.</p><p>Don’t be fooled by the lullaby-esque lilt or the often minimalist arrangement of the songs; Marked for Death is a heavy album; thick with emotion and densely packed with honesty. The nuanced weight of loss and longing resonates.</p><p>Given that Marked For Death’ is likely to be making an appearance on our album of the year lists here at Roadburn HQ, we’re thrilled to announce that Emma Ruth Rundle will be performing at Roadburn 2017. Having last performed at Roadburn with Marriages in 2015 – a show that a lucky few got to witness at Cul de Sac, whilst the rest of us stood on tip toes by the door – we’re very happy to welcome Emma back to Tilburg.</p><p>Roadburn Festival 2017 will take place April 20-23 at the 013 venue, Tilburg, The Netherlands. <a href="http://www.roadburn.com/roadburn-2017/" target="_blank">Tickets</a> are now on sale!</p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4122221096/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless=""><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death by Emma Ruth Rundle</a></iframe>
<p>Via <a href="http://www.roadburn.com/2016/11/emma-ruth-rundle-will-perform-set-thick-emotion-roadburn-2017/" target="_blank">Roadburn</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44665562016-11-14T10:10:34-08:002016-11-14T16:28:24-08:00Deafheaven And Emma Ruth Rundle To Play Noise Pop Fest<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="690" data-orig-width="690"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/c02cf17c243c95e7f407c2ed3b6481e1ce202bb3/original/noise-pop.jpg?1479169541" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></figure>
<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be playing Noise Pop Fest at the Independent in San Fransisco on February 23, 2016. They’ll be joined by <a href="http://thiswilldestroyyou.net" target="_blank">This Will Destroy You</a>. </p>
<p>Tickets go on sale Friday and will be available <a href="http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1383799?utm_medium=459899" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44665572016-11-14T09:00:00-08:002016-11-14T15:47:15-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Live Review // Echoes And Dust<figure data-orig-width="250" data-orig-height="41"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/d9203c945754bba244c1d82096c35430/tumblr_inline_ogna75l7Xp1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1200" data-orig-height="1800" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/bac56aa56a6cfe0b585236d23c5bddfb/tumblr_inline_ogna9gGOXj1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>It was the final, highly anticipated date on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/wovenhand" target="_blank">Wovenhand’s</a> Star Treatment tour, an album departing the band’s dark folk period and looking back to 16 Horsepower’s hard rock edge. Joining Wovenhand on their European tour is gothic-tinged singer-songwriter <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. While I was largely unfamiliar with Wovenhand save for a quick binge listen a few nights before, I could tell this was a devoted audience, expecting great things, and that’s what they got.</p><!-- more --><p>I never miss a chance to see Emma Ruth Rundle perform, especially solo, knowing I’ll get to hear some of my absolute favourite songs in a completely different light. We were treated to a mix of material from her last two solo albums, as well as two very welcome selections from her time writing as The Nocterns (Grandmother Make A Steeple and London Town), but Heaven and Run Forever stood out. Those familiar with her last two albums know that there’s quite a lot going on instrumentally, but solo she mostly plays a distorted acoustic guitar, and on couple of songs was joined by a violinist, most notably on Grandmother Make A Steeple, which suddenly had a beautiful new dimension from the version on Aokigahara.</p><p>Hearing these stripped back versions was a real treat, and really let Rundle’s exceptional lyricism shine through in a way I feel they often don’t on her albums because there’s often so much to listen to. It allowed me to fall in love with these songs all over again, hearing them stripped down and rearranged, sometimes to the point where it was hard to tell what the song was until she started singing. I always value performances that give me something that the albums don’t, and Rundle never fails to highlight a different dimension of her music in a live setting.</p><p>Read full article at <a href="http://echoesanddust.com/2016/11/wovenhand-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Echoes and Dust</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44510092016-11-03T11:30:25-07:002017-01-10T06:30:39-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle is Culture Fly’s Artist Of The Month<figure data-orig-width="529" data-orig-height="56" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/c2f9099cae78f83ffe984a8c10ee31e5/tumblr_inline_og2vuukAQz1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1197" data-orig-height="597" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/7752345eb5375cd71afdb1d0d69c8146/tumblr_inline_og2vv4SdH51qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>I’m willing to bet most of you will have been encouraged by somebody – likely a friend, relative, or spiritual acquaintance of some kind – to invest time in researching or experiencing a certain something. This could be a movie, a director, an album or artist, an author’s work. Heck, even breed of tropical fish if your friends are that obscure, I don’t know.</p><p>I’m also willing to bet you’ve put a substantial number of those friends’ commendations off, too, haven’t you?</p><p>Now why is it we do that? Is it dependent on our individual personalities and how industrious we may or may not be? Or is it because there is something of a better sense of pride when we discover a new interest on our own terms, when it suits us, perhaps? In that case how much great music do we deny ourselves through simply suspending our will to take note on the tailored recommendations of others?</p><p>I tend to blame my unpredictable listening habits, which switch without warning in a manner I can only describe as best akin to the British weathering system: shifting constantly before ever acclimatising, and never in any direction I either saw coming or that made any sense.</p><p>Deliberating on it too much is kind of pointless right now I guess. The important thing is that, on occasion, we somehow make it to that destination, as is the case now maybe eighteen months after the fact for me. Even though it’s a tad overdue I hope that, maybe after neglecting my endorsement of her music for a few indeterminate cycles of your own, you may eventually, too.</p><!-- more --><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fu5H07c8DlgI"><iframe width="540" height="304" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u5H07c8DlgI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><p>Now, funnily enough, it wasn’t actually as a result of that somebody intentionally forcing her name, music, or tote bags, down my throat that I came to be overwhelmed by Emma Ruth Rundle this past fortnight. Instead it was more by incidental association whilst I happened to be scouring the Metacritic chart. But alas, had that friend not made her aware to me previously I likely wouldn’t have hazarded the listing that much attention.</p><p><a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked for Death</a>, Emma’s latest effort on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>, is arguably more melancholic and contemplative than the first. The songs as a whole, thanks to denser production, converge to deeply immerse its listener this time round, striking right with the atmosphere you feel they were only ever intended to serve. That’s not, however, to say the songs themselves aren’t somewhat responsible for instigating this decent further into the blissful inferno; the majority feature the backing of a full band – with an appetite for stomping all aspect of life from their reverb and fuzz pedals – behind Emma’s aching minor-chord melodies and fragile, often-deprecating lyricism.<br></p><p>Of course being a listener already partial to now-obvious contemporaries such as Grouper, Giles Corey and <a href="http://chelseawolfe.net" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>, I loved it. What’s still bittersweet about the whole episode, though, is that I should have discovered that very verdict many months before.</p><p>Moral of the story, then: sometimes friends make great critics, too.</p><p>But only sometimes.</p><p><a href="http://culturefly.co.uk/artist-of-the-month-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">(via Culture Fly)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44478702016-11-01T11:07:03-07:002017-01-10T06:30:39-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Conversation w/ Treble<figure data-orig-width="250" data-orig-height="83"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/6a450e73085186b5ce570b3d62c4d178/tumblr_inline_ofz66iqkHz1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="884" data-orig-height="1006" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/c8624d5ed105f79aeb808a0d4702581f/tumblr_inline_ofz5z4F47F1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is taking a moment to catch her breath. The singer/songwriter and member of Los Angeles shoegaze trio <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> is laying low in Montana after several weeks of touring in Europe in support of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> labelmates <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/wovenhand" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a>. She’s also nursing a head cold, but all things considered, she’s in a good place—spending time friends and family, surrounded by nature while she waits for her Portland apartment, currently being subleased, to be vacated.</p><p>Just one year ago, she found herself in a scenario almost the direct opposite of where she is right now. While finishing up the songs on her new album <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a>, she was living alone in the desert, in a bitter cold. She was playing and writing music every day, which when completed resulted in the heaviest album of her career—both sonically and emotionally. It’s a richly layered, often beautiful, sometimes harrowing document of a particularly dark year in Rundle’s life. Loosely speaking, the record finds her tackling love, loss, mental health, loneliness, death, self-destruction and a pervasive sense of doom in tones both elegant and immense. She’s hesitant to go into detail about the circumstances that informed Marked For Death, but in a phone conversation during her brief stay in Montana, she confirms that it’s all based in real-life events.</p><p>“The record is autobiographical,” she says. “We’ll just leave it at that.”</p><!-- more --><p>Marked For Death is Emma Ruth Rundle’s biggest solo effort to date. Following the ethereal, experimental guitar sounds of the mostly instrumental album Electric Guitar One from 2011 and the more fleshed out, dream-pop sound of 2014′s Some Heavy Ocean, Marked for Death is the album of hers that contains the widest dynamics between sparse, gentle balladry and thunderous climaxes. The single “Protection” features the most immediate chorus on the album, crashing with the density of her other band, Marriages, while closing track “Real Big Sky” is just Rundle’s voice and guitar, one of the simplest and most devastating moments on the album.</p><p>Initially, Rundle’s plan was to record an album of just guitar and voice, but ended up taking a different tack after writing the leadoff title track. That song became both a stylistic and thematic keystone for the record, its powerful guitar punch providing a backdrop for an ill-fated protagonist: “Who else is going to love someone like you that’s marked for death?” The depth and darkness of the song led to Rundle putting more of her own life onto the record, and as it came together, she found herself more directly channeling certain harsh or heartbreaking experiences.</p><p>“I think that the events that took place in the real world…dictated a whole series of events that laid the ground for me to live in a way to write all these songs that have these themes,” she says. “Love and loss, and a lot of other things going on in the material. Alcoholism, all this other dysfunctional stuff. It was sort of more the real world. That song is a good beginning point.”</p><p>While the seeds of Marked For Death were planted shortly after Rundle’s 2014 album Some Heavy Ocean, she did much of the writing for the album during a self-imposed isolation in the California desert during the winter of 2015 and early 2016. She’s quick to dissuade any romantic notions of what that entails—no parties at the Ace Hotel, no glamping in a climate-controlled yurt. She essentially holed up in a house for a couple months without even seeing much life at all outside.</p><p>The loneliness and starkness of the landscape ended up informing the album to a certain degree. It was already shaping up to be an emotionally draining work, based on the songs that Rundle had written before her exile. Yet the quiet and emptiness pushed her deeper into that darkness to a degree, and it resonates through the album’s eight songs. You can almost picture the open skies and hilly roads unfolding in the distance in songs such as the slide-driven waltz “Medusa” or the dreamy, open space of “Furious Angel.” But while Rundle came out of it with an album featuring some of her most beautiful material, the experience of camping out in a barren locale took a psychological toll.</p><p>“People keep using the word ‘bleak’ with this record. And you know, the landscape was bleak,” she says of her surroundings during the creation of much of the album. “I ended up living alone for a couple months. It’s a high-elevation desert. You could see the mountains. It’s very fashionable to go to places like Joshua Tree, if you’re from Los Angeles. A lot of people go out there, and there’s studios and there’s a hippie community. You can go out and get some vegan food. This is not what that is, at all. It’s not a million miles within that kind of thing. It’s very cold. There was a stove that I was having to put wood in to stay warm. I don’t know. I was drinking a lot. It was grim. I think it was very grim, and because I was out there alone a lot of that stuff went unchecked.</p><p>“I’m sitting here looking over this lake in Montana right now and there’s this feeling that things are alive,” she adds. “The season’s changing here and there’s an ecosystem. But the desert is like a big empty mirror. I don’t know. It’s not the kind of feedback you get from a landscape when you’re in a forest. It’s bleak. It’s gnarly. It doesn’t give you anything. There’s no distraction there. You don’t sit back and enjoy the weather. You have to be alone with yourself in such a real way.”</p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle Marked For Death</p><p>The cover art, itself, of Marked for Death is a kind of window into Emma Ruth Rundle’s state of being during the album’s creation. It’s a simple self-portrait in black and white, shot during her desert stay, during which she documented much of her experience via photography (a hobby she took up for the sake of creating something without worrying about it generating any income). The look on her face is stoic yet evocative. She isn’t made up for a photo shoot—a press release describes the shot as “unglamorous”—but it feels intimate. It brings the listener even closer into a personal space that performers don’t always give their listeners access to. It’s also a reminder of where she determined she needed to go on a personal level.</p><p>“There’s something about that photo that’s very poignant,” she says. “That’s the time when the songs were written. That’s who I was then.”</p><p>“I think I got to a serious low—mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Almost at a zero,” she continues. “And I had some health problems earlier in the year, so it was almost like a breaking point. It had to be the end of something. I had to make changes toward a healthier lifestyle and pursue some kind of happiness. It’s unsustainable type of existence. I cannot write songs that are like that forever. That’s not sustainable. Maybe it was therapeutic. But there’s a whole other side to these kind of things where you perform these songs live and it takes you backward into this space in my heart. It’s almost like a backslide. But I was never not going to write the music because I might have to play it down the road.”</p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle has been returning to that vulnerable personal space while playing these songs on tour in Europe, and will again in the United States in 2017. But she’s traveled a great distance, spiritually, since writing Marked For Death. It’s an honest record, and one that directly represents a specific time in her life. On some level, perhaps, it’s an album she had to make, but it’s also a work with themes that can apply to a listener’s own experience. The catharsis for her is real, but it doesn’t necessarily belong to her. That catharsis is for everyone.</p><p>“I think one of the great things about music that has lyrics is that the listener can take whatever experience they’re having and interpret the lyrics through the filter of their own experience,” she says. “I think a lot of the themes are pretty simple and universal. I did not set out to make high art. It’s very human, very from the dirt. Very low vibration kind of themes. And that it’s relatable. That’s one thing I certainly love about music, growing up when i would hear lyrics I’d make up my own stories for what I think the stories were about. I’d never want to take that away from anyone.”</p><p>(<a href="http://www.treblezine.com/32492-emma-ruth-rundle-interview-alone-with-yourself/" target="_blank">Via Treble</a>)</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44272762016-10-19T13:09:39-07:002017-01-10T06:30:37-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle | Band of The Week on Good Music Matters<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="126" data-orig-width="356" style=""><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/247e9de5ba60fcd55b189164095111dd/tumblr_inline_ofb94iIMqh1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="126" data-orig-width="484" style=""><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/057ccb6f1b30f6d003887910d77de026/tumblr_inline_ofb94pmmoQ1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="378" data-orig-width="568"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/8c86918d661d3288418f10c103ff2dea/tumblr_inline_ofb94uph301rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>This week at <a href="http://www.goodmusicmatters.net" target="_blank">Good Music Matters</a>, we are covering the solo works of a truly excellent and multi-talented singer, songwriter and musician. <a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has dedicated years to a number of musical projects, each differing in tone, complexity, genre, mood and texture. She has been a member of not one but four bands – The Nocturnes, Red Sparowes, The Headless Prince of Zolpidem and <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> – and still continues to tour as part of these bands. With a discography as plentiful and eclectic as this stashed under her belt, Emma Ruth Rundle has released her second solo album <i>Marked For Death</i>, and it is clearly one of her most personal outputs yet.</p><!-- more --><p><b>Emma Ruth Rundle</b></p><p>Born in Los Angeles, California, Emma Ruth Rundle began her professional music career in the mid-2000s as a guitarist in Red Sparowes, an instrumental band whose brooding brand of post-rock channels the earlier works of Mogwai. Around this time, Rundle began to release music with The Nocturnes; a band that she founded with Red Sparowes drummer Dave Clifford (eventually joined by supporting members Julian Rifkin and Paris Pratt). The music she produced with The Nocturnes was described as ‘folkgaze’ – containing the slow percussive rhythms and thick, sleepy reverb of shoegaze, and the gentle guitars and honey-sweet hushed vocals present in folk music, glossed over with a dreamlike ambience.</p><p>In 2011, Emma Ruth Rundle seemed to decide that two bands simply weren’t enough, and there was a box in her creative repertoire that needed to be ticked. The result of this was the formation of heavier outfit Marriages with Dave Clifford on drums (yet again) and multi-instrumentalist Greg Burns. Instrumentally, Marriages lie between Toundra and Caspian. Drums are very much a focus of their sound, but Emma Ruth Rundle’s melodic vocals add a raw and emotive layer to an otherwise dark strain of alternative rock. 2013’s dreamy Somnambulent, a principally instrumental album with vocal samples released by enigmatic project The Headless Prince of Zolpidem has also been credited to Emma Ruth Rundle. Her vocals can faintly be heard in places, yet the exact involvement of Rundle herself or any others in the project is widely unknown.</p><p>Two years ago, Emma Ruth Rundle wowed fans and critics alike with her debut LP, titled Some Heavy Ocean. The album appeared to amalgamate elements of her previous works – the title track could have easily appeared on Somnambulent, whereas ‘Savage Saint’ has the folk leanings of The Nocturnes and ‘Run Forever’ sees a lot more of Marriages’ influence. What distinguished Some Heavy Ocean from the rest of Rundle’s catalogue, was the sheer power of her vocals to transform the album into something affective and moving. Her voice truly came into its own during her live performance at ArcTanGent Festival in 2015 – and despite clashing with one of the headliners, crowds flocked from all over the site to hear Emma Ruth Rundle’s solo set.</p><hr><p><b>Conclusions</b></p><p>Alternative folk singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle is our Band of the Week at Good Music Matters. We can’t get enough of her new album Marked For Death, so if you’re thinking of giving it a listen, check out our review here. We have also compiled a playlist of our favourite Emma Ruth Rundle tracks (Marriages, Red Sparowes et al) – so if you’ve exhausted her solo discography or find yourself looking for something similar, you can listen <a href="http://www.goodmusicmatters.net/emma-ruth-rundle-top-10-playlist/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44185302016-10-13T11:28:43-07:002017-01-10T06:30:37-08:00Pitchfork Reviews ‘Marked For Death’<figure data-orig-width="400" data-orig-height="85" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/fa3e1c10e6584905f9a4d9c4d4b3411c/tumblr_inline_oezzw4hgA51rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="867" data-orig-height="318" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/f5647c9c4fa1543f6794e840d08864db/tumblr_inline_oezzyjE2OF1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="701" data-orig-height="152" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/e05e439a27433bc742e2b3a4a74b57ef/tumblr_inline_oezzypS8Xz1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>The music of <a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is nearly swallowed by darkness, but Rundle does not seem oppressed by it. Having toured with acts like <a href="http://www.deafheavenband.com" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a> and Earth, Rundle made her name performing mournful, minor key compositions, swelling with gothic drama. But to classify her music as macabre is to deny its cathartic, even uplifting qualities. On Marked for Death, the follow-up to 2014’s <i>Some Heavy Ocean</i>, Rundle upgrades that album’s gothic folk with a more colorful palette. Here, she strengthens the atmospheric guitar work that comprised her instrumental solo debut, <i>Electric Guitar One</i>, and enlivens her songs with anthemic, weightless choruses. And while her two previous solo releases, as well as her work in the noisy LA trio Marriages, set a precedent for <i>Marked for Death</i>’s more ambitious material, it doesn’t make the record feel any less thrilling. Each of its eight tracks showcase a songwriter testing the limits of her sound and redefining herself in the process.</p><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4122221096/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=63b2cc/track=2034737611/transparent=true/">&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=“http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Marked For Death by Emma Ruth Rundle&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;</iframe><!-- more --><p>As we have come to expect from Rundle, the lyrics throughout <i>Marked for Death</i> range from devastatingly beautiful to just plain devastating. The album follows a loose narrative about a doomed relationship, touching on themes of hopelessness and mortality. The opening title track introduces two fatalistic lovers, with Rundle asking a series of questions that progresses from “Who else is going to love someone like you that’s marked for death?” to simply, “Who else would ever stay?” In the following track, Rundle is wrestling with the sacrifices of commitment, detailing an inherent power struggle and loss of identity (“I am worthless in your arms/But you offer this protection no one else is giving me”). It’s unquestionably heavy material, and, in these two tracks, the music is built to carry the load. The guitars are crushing, approaching shoegaze levels of fuzz, while the rhythm remains slow and insistent. </p><p>After the lumbering introductory tracks, the tension breaks in “Medusa.” Rundle’s voice, clear and calm, soars like the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan in the song’s inscrutable refrain. The album’s finest moments are crafted in this mold, settling on a style of slow-building, otherworldly balladry that invoke the early days of 4AD. In “Heaven,” Rundle’s greatest work yet, she sings over a quietly escalating storm of strings, fingerpicked guitars, and militant percussion. By the time the song climaxes with Rundle bellowing, “I can see fire… I can see in heaven,” you are right there with her. Gorgeous and unsettling,“Heaven” feels like the culmination of all of Rundle’s best work, boasting the record’s most gratifying melody as well as its gothiest couplet. “The only church I’ll ever know is in the Earth,” she sings, “The ground below me says ‘Come home now.’”</p><p>Like <i>Some Heavy Ocean</i>, <i>Marked for Death</i> also closes with a sparse solo piece– just Rundle’s voice, electric guitar, and the lo-fi hum of her amplifier. But while Ocean’s “Living With the Black Dog” was a dark admission of hopelessness, “Real Big Sky” feels like a transcendent turning point. Rundle calls back to the lingering question in the album’s opening track (“Who else would ever stay?”), but now finds her narrator faced with new revelations– no longer fearing death, but keeping a light on to welcome it. It’s a staggering performance, with Rundle’s voice alternately quivering and soaring. In the song’s music video, she introduces the track with a grand statement: “I don’t think there’s anything more exhilarating than seeing natural beauty… Seeing something that there aren’t words for.” Marked for Death finds Rundle grappling with elements beyond her control, but she’s closer than ever to becoming her own force of nature.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/44171482016-10-12T17:24:42-07:002017-01-10T06:30:37-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle // Music & Riots Full Feature and more<figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="issuu" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="381" data-url="http%3A%2F%2Fissuu.com%2Fmusic_and_riots_mag%2Fdocs%2Fissue_20%3Fe%3D0%2F39590243"><div data-configid="0/39590243" style="width: 540px; height: 381px;" class="issuuembed"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//e.issuu.com/embed.js" async="true"></script></figure><p><a href="https://issuu.com/music_and_riots_mag/docs/issue_20" target="_blank">Music & Riots</a> issue 20 has great multi-page interviews and reviews on <a href="http://wovenhandband.com" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a>, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, and <a href="http://helmsalee.net" target="_blank">Helms Alee</a>. Check out the magazine <a href="https://issuu.com/music_and_riots_mag/docs/issue_20" target="_blank">HERE</a> or in the embedded reader above. Emma Ruth Rundle’s feature can also be viewed below.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="830" data-orig-width="1172"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/21b4d57215cdb2a61a4412d3296cec9f/tumblr_inline_oeymxrAVxJ1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="830" data-orig-width="1173"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/0d5c0d3bb1d6f808eafdd9c8a4af28ce/tumblr_inline_oeymy826mc1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="829" data-orig-width="1174"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/d049d8a202cdbfe90637e9d9ca928482/tumblr_inline_oeymyhorBg1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="821" data-orig-width="581"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/bf1ed877c2749c893edf41207579c626/tumblr_inline_oeymz6ibOg1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43989882016-09-30T13:39:22-07:002017-01-10T06:30:36-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle’s “Marked For Death” Is Out Today<figure data-orig-width="1200" data-orig-height="1200" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/94536f396546e5c9419d35bd9a0aea23/tumblr_inline_oec0b6z4lE1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s new album <i>Marked for Death</i> is officially out today in stores, streaming, and digital platforms. See some of the great reviews already coming in below.</p><p>Emma Ruth Rundle is still on tour in Europe with <a href="http://www.wovenhandband.com" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a> European tour - tickets are available <a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com/upcoming-shows" target="_blank">HERE</a>, with a full list of dates below.</p><p>EMMA RUTH RUNDLE LIVE 2016 w/ Wovenhand except *</p><p>Sep 30 STOCKHOLM, SE – Nalen<br>Oct 01 LUND, SE – Mejeriet<br>Oct 02 COPENHAGEN, DK – Vega Jr.<br>Oct 04 EINDHOVEN, NL – Effenaar<br>Oct 05 AMSTERDAM, NL – Melkweg<br>Oct 06 LEUVEN, BE – Het Depot<br>Oct 07 GENT, BE – Handelsbeurs<br>Oct 08 CHARLEROI, BE – L’Eden<br>Oct 10 LILLE, FR – L’Aéronef<br>Oct 11 PARIS, FR – La Maroquinerie<br>Oct 13 ORLEANS, FR – L’Astrolabe<br>Oct 14 GRENOBLE, FR – La Belle Electrique<br>Oct 15 FEYZIN, FR – L’Epicerie Moderne<br>Oct 16 TOULOUSE, FR – La Rex<br>Oct 18 LONDON, UK – The Dome<br>Oct 19 LONDON, UK - The Black Heart*</p><p>*w/ 40 Watt Sun</p><p><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://newnoisemagazine.com/review-emma-ruth-rundle-marked-death/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/99855b49d90801504340e9e6bf9f4ed604cf3529/small/screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-11-59-42-am.png?1475003429" class="size_s justify_none border_" /></a><br>“There’s a beam of hope beyond that fits as the the emotional way to end Marked For Death, and hopefully move past that mark, leaving death as merely a thought in the blackness of existence.” - <a contents="New Noise Magazine" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://newnoisemagazine.com/review-emma-ruth-rundle-marked-death/" target="_blank">New Noise Magazine</a></p><p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bon-iver-danny-brown-oathbreaker-emma-ruth-rundle-jenny-hval-reviews/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/cc4ea671835483d705f62fa710db895b570925b7/small/screen-shot-2016-09-30-at-12-13-52-pm.png?1475264718" class="size_s justify_none border_" /></a><br>“Marked For Death pushes boundaries, defies genre limitations, and finds the sweet spot between music that’s high-brow and highly-listenable.” - <a contents="Brooklyn Vegan" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bon-iver-danny-brown-oathbreaker-emma-ruth-rundle-jenny-hval-reviews/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Vegan</a><br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/9fe7f3277d5dccee422558cfed2dc0008dfaefb3/small/tumblr-inline-odx7vfz1ay1rlbw04-540.png?1474596288" class="size_s justify_none border_" /><br>“Rundle has made the record of her life with “Marked for Death,” the most exposed, heart-bruised of her career. These are songs that should bring people to beg for mercy and they confront the same hurt and confusion Rundle did when writing these songs. She has gone from being a great artist to one you have to stop whatever you’re doing to hear. Rundle’s always been an excellent vessel for delivering pain, but now she’s entered a new level of power that could cripple weaker souls.” - <a contents="Meat Mead Metal" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://meatmeadmetal.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/emma-ruth-rundle-reveals-inner-turmoil-explores-dark-times-on-nakedly-raw-marked-for-death/" target="_blank">Meat Mead Metal</a><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pressplayok.com/blog/2016/09/26/review-emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/5b4668dace8f1bbeddd23848a235dfeb4d3d6adb/small/screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-2-28-13-pm.png?1475012227" class="size_s justify_none border_" /></a><br>“…it feels like there’s nothing else left for Rundle to bare – in the wake of devastation behind her, she’s not only exorcised a great deal to repurpose as strength, she’s also held a mirror up to every failed relationship and every dark moment we’ve all had. Do not miss it.” - <a contents="pressplayok" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://pressplayok.com/blog/2016/09/26/review-emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death/" target="_blank">pressplayok</a><br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://echoesanddust.com/2016/09/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/bfb1d2896af8fa5d9f224869dd68448c4869c922/small/screen-shot-2016-09-28-at-5-25-57-pm.png?1475109426" class="size_s justify_none border_" /></a><br>“With Marked For Death, Emma Ruth Rundle has composed a complex piece of work that rocks, soothes, haunts, saddens and uplifts. It is an album that deals honestly with self-doubt and introspection, that offers no easy answers but leaves room for growth and hope.” - <a contents="Echoes and Dust" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://echoesanddust.com/2016/09/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death/" target="_blank">Echoes and Dust</a><br><br><br><br><br>++<br><br><br><br><br><br> </p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43918382016-09-26T11:17:50-07:002017-01-10T06:30:35-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle “Marked for Death” Album Stream on Independent<p><figure data-orig-width="814" data-orig-height="138" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/2a92bc34b7bd1fb2fea27105b3b8342b/tumblr_inline_oe4i0nzhIN1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1802" data-orig-height="1290" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/f2abb65dcf815c7c03be152378f15508/tumblr_inline_oe4i19rNqH1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p>The sheer breadth of musical projects that <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has made her mark with is truly breath-taking; from the post-rock soundscape influenced Red Sparowes through to her fronting the organic, experimental, heavy shoegaze-tinged <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, her work showcases many sides of her personality. Nothing is quite so laid bare and personal however, as the work contained in her solo albums. All her disparate musical projects carry a dark underbelly of vulnerability that washes over and seduces the listener, but we only see Rundle at her lowest ebbs through her solo work. Her latest, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a> is released through <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> on Friday 30th September, but you can stream it exclusively 4 days before its official release below.</p><!-- more --><p>More ambitious and adventurous than her previous solo album, 2014’s <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>, Marked For Death marks the point where Rundle’s distinct singer/songwriter style comes fully into fruition. The album chronicles a period of emotional upheaval in her life utilising fragility and femininity in exquisitely exposing ways. ‘There is intentionally nothing to hide behind here,’ she says ‘but at the same time I’m terrified of revealing myself. The subject matter is largely about being defeated and shrunken into the base human themes of love and loss. It’s a far cry from high art. It’s very much from the dirt.’</p><p>The waves of cascading reverb-drenched electric guitar provide a shimmering, dark foundation for the sweetly haunting melody of Rundle’s fragile vocals, surely her most exposed and finest vocal delivery to date. Her lyrics focus on themes of self-destruction, transmutation, love, loss and death but despite the moribundity of the subject matter, the music is at once transgressive, heart-breaking and exhilirating, as if the sonic soundscape created were carrying Rundle through her melancholy. Even if music doesn’t heal all her wounds, it does provide her comfort and will no doubt prove just as cathartic for the listener.</p><p>Rundle has fully embraced her role as singer/songwriter, writing a record that reveals new depths on every listen whilst still retaining the unorthodox approach she’s showcased throughout her career. With Marked For Death, she has created an album that stands shoulder to shoulder with her previous preeminent work.</p><iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/261682847&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe><p>Via <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death-exclusive-album-stream-a7329466.html" target="_blank">Independent</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43866032016-09-22T12:46:12-07:002017-01-10T06:30:34-08:00Marked For Death Review by Meat Mead Metal<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="148" data-orig-width="806" style=""><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/298d49af3558d07ab67dd69e64df3fb6/tumblr_inline_odx7vfz1ay1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="217" data-orig-width="729" style=""><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/6286afed602e4944de312f4529650126/tumblr_inline_odx7vnvPxD1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="638" data-orig-width="456"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/dc89eecfb0faaf4eb0790e4728bfe554/tumblr_inline_odx7vvpDHy1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>There are artists whose records immediately grab you, strangle your lungs, and cause your mind to go into near panic mode over the sheer transparency of their work. The late Jason Molina was an artist like that for me, someone who you trusted was putting every thought and emotion, no matter how scarring, in front of you to examine. There’s nothing left to imagination.</p><p>With her excellent third solo record “Marked for Death,” <a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is becoming one of those artists. The first time I spent with this record left me gasping, wondering what I’d just heard and if I could face it anymore. This is accomplished amid quiet, vulnerable folk, smearing rock, and Rundle’s raw, expressive voice that sounds as naked and vulnerable as ever on this record. The album is situated in darkness, self-doubt, defeat, and confusion. There is life and love irretrievably broken, and every word that comes out of Rundle’s mouth seems so vital and final, that you feel like she’s about to close the door on you, never to speak to you again. These are some of the best songs Rundle ever has created, and it’s unquestionably her best solo record.</p><!-- more --><p>While Rundle’s solo work might not seem a natural for a metal site, we beg to differ. She’s made impressive, penetrating noise with post-rock stompers Red Sparowes, stoned-out The Nocturnes, and with noisy rock band Marriages, whose last record “Salome” we reviewed, loved, and still listen to a lot to this day. This is her grimiest solo work, and while not always heavy musically, it certainly is lyrically. “Marked for Death,” as noted, is Rundle’s third record on her own, with her first being “Electric Guitar One,” an instrumental, ambient-based collection, and her second the excellent “Some Heavy Ocean,” one of the best records released that year. That should tell you something when we say this new one is her best work, because the bar was high, and she hurdled the shit out of it.</p><p>The record wastes no time going for the throat with the title cut, a song that creeps its way into the room, starting quietly and unassumingly before breaking open on the chorus, with Rundle morbidly poking, “Who else is going to love someone like you who’s marked for death?” Strings cut in, the mood is dark and vulnerable, and Rundle finishes up by asking, “Who else would ever stay?” “Protection” is blunt and something altogether different from her last record. Actually, there are a lot of songs like that here. Anyhow, drums encircle, while the music take on a noiry swoon, leading into the chorus and the thunderous guitar smear that emerges from there. “I am worthless in your arms,” Rundle calls, while spacious, bloodletting playing fills up the room and your chest. “Medusa” unleashes dusty guitars and emits a Western moan, while other elements mix in and give it an autumnal chill. Later the song turns dreamy and hypnotic, later disappearing into numbness. “Hand of God” trickles in with acoustic guitars, as the song gets darkly moody, with Rundle directing, “Bring your sons and lay them down in front of me.” The fog keeps thickening and sweltering, with the track ending in a murky haze.</p><p>“Heaven” opens amid quiet guitars and hushed singing, with a simple kick drum poking holes over the chorus. Strings mix into the piece, as the noise levels rise and threaten before the tide pulls back and drags everything toward the sea. “So Come” has thorny guitars and verses that feel like they’re about to crack under the emotional weight. The chorus allows for the release, with Rundle leveling, “All these things come down, I wish they would not,” a line that will spin in your head over and over again. “Furious Angel,” while not the loudest track on the record, is the one that brings the most vengeance. Stormy guitars, an ominous ambiance, and Rundle demanding, “Rain death from above onto me,” provides both the hell fire and the brimstone and should leave any listener heaving. Rundle leaves the biggest crusher for last, a raw, noise-buzzed, completely emotionally exposed track “Real Big Sky,” smartly presented in its demo form. There’s no way not to be impacted by the song, as you can’t tell if she’s about to give way to death or if she’s observing another person’s fight. “I don’t want to be awake when it takes me,” she calls, making it seem like she’s begging on bloodied hands and knees. But she injects a bit of hope, adding, “I can’t wait to see you smile on the other side.” It might be the saddest song of the year, and it would be easy to imagine someone totally vulnerable to what’s going on here being rendered smothered, emitting wailing, uncontrollable tears.</p><p>Rundle has made the record of her life with “Marked for Death,” the most exposed, heart-bruised of her career. These are songs that should bring people to beg for mercy and they confront the same hurt and confusion Rundle did when writing these songs. She has gone from being a great artist to one you have to stop whatever you’re doing to hear. Rundle’s always been an excellent vessel for delivering pain, but now she’s entered a new level of power that could cripple weaker souls.</p><p>For more on the band, go here: <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com/" target="_blank">http://emmaruthrundle.com/</a></p><p>To buy the album, go here: <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle/products/marked-for-death-bundles" target="_blank">https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle/products/marked-for-death-bundles</a></p><p>For more on the label, go here: <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">http://sargenthouse.com/</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43844972016-09-21T15:46:39-07:002017-01-10T06:30:34-08:00The Girls Are Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle<p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="129" data-orig-width="591"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/06831ba0179426d051466cd1a419be34/tumblr_inline_odvktv6xXK1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="575" data-orig-width="818"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/70f8b14c575761e1af64a2463b6ec47a/tumblr_inline_odvkubhTDI1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is a serious musician with a seriously strong work ethic. She speaks to TGA about the impact of brutal honesty in her music and succumbing to unhealthy habits on the road.</p><p>It is mid-afternoon in a cool basement in sunny Portland. A laptop sits open on a table; it is being used by singer/guitarist virtuoso Emma Ruth Rundle, who has been editing a new video for her art project The Headless Prince of Zolpidem.</p><p>Between edits, she has also been practicing guitar for her upcoming European tour with Wovenhand, leaving the basement only to run errands, which include putting together a solid Inuyasha costume and walking around a volcanic cinder cone at Mt. Tabor.</p><p>This is just an ordinary day in the life of Emma Ruth Rundle. A woman who finds it not only easy, but necessary to keep busy; managing several tasks at any given time, her work ethic making many bands look lazy by comparison. Emma turns 33 in October, and she is one musician who most musos agree has a talent that reaches far beyond her years.</p><!-- more --><p>This kind of adoration doesn’t come from nowhere: it was seeded a long time ago. Perhaps it took root with her guitar playing in supergroup Red Sparowes – featuring members of Isis, Neurosis, Halifax Pier and The Cignal – or singing in LA-based group The Nocturnes. But it definitely blossomed when the she found her voice on project <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a>.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="358" data-orig-width="539"><img src="//68.media.tumblr.com/e01790fefbfa3f4bbce7bbfb4143ef65/tumblr_inline_odvkydKQok1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>From here, she grew coltishly from instrumental rock into experimental LA noir goth-tinged rock.</p><p>Stepping out on her own once more, she released two albums under her own name. Electric Guitar: One was an ambient, improvised record, while 2014’s <i>Some Heavy Ocean</i> saw reverb-shrouded folk-ballad vocals accompanied by strings. This album was packed full of three- to six-minute reasons why a whole different musical audience fell in love with her music.</p><p>Under the Emma Ruth Rundle moniker, she has songs for everyone; the broken-hearted and optimistic alike. Yet, despite everyone wanting a musical piece of her, popularity hasn’t taken her away from anyone. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.</p><p>For a woman who describes herself as “fucked” outside of art and music, who grew up working in a folk music shop on a steady diet of Melvins and their rough-hewn cousins Earth, Emma has managed to make sure her songwriting is all for you.</p><p>It’s for people to listen to and take something from; at the same time, she keeps her repertoire sacred. As Rundle’s star soars, there is still a sense of intimacy, and a sense that her musical roots are planted firmly at home.</p><p>On Marked For Death, her third ERR album, she has upped the intimacy levels, making it even more personal.</p><p>“This album looks at the self-destructive nature of the mentally ill, struggling with both addiction and health issues,” she explains, acutely aware that she feels the need to keep busy and occupy her mind.</p><p>“The title holds some meaning for me, separate of that in the song; it is a signifier of the end of a time in my personal life fraught with discord. Ultimately, the theme is defeat but also succumbence, transmutation, love, loss and death – very basic human stuff.”</p><p>The result is a series of songs that are both personal and universal: the focus is often self-destruction. A compelling indictment of modern times, it’s darker than a Nordic winter and spells out why there are very few reasons to be cheerful when in the grip of a downward spiral.</p><p>It’s clear that Rundle’s morose lyrical perspective is emblematic of her present situation. Despite this, she seems entirely content throwing herself into projects.</p><p>As she attests, the stark situations and negative feelings that inspired <i>Marked For Death</i> have bled a converse of positivity. The album might be bleak, but it’s also brilliant – particularly track <i>Real Big Sky</i>.</p><p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDlJ7BBPJw0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p>“It’s the <i>Black Dog </i>of this record. It’s just raw and real. While not being entirely listenable to some, I think it encapsulates what I had hoped to accomplish with this record; just pure and truthful expression or autobiographical bloodletting,” she says.</p><p>Emma’s new album, Marked For Death is her first in two years. On the last one, <i>Some Heavy Ocean</i>, she experimented with showcasing her voice, which at times channelled Marissa Nadler and at others, Chelsea Wolfe; but instrumentation was uncharacteristically sparse.</p><p><i>Marked For Death</i>, however, has taken a sharp left turn. Emma has gone back to noise and textures, and layering is prominent throughout. While her voice still plays a huge part, it’s more solitary, and it adds to the expansive, teeming musicality. This time, the songs are loud and push their boundaries to the limit. The guitars are swathed in vicious feedback, a reminder of earlier guitar-layered work.</p><p>“Getting into guitar-scapes is maybe my favourite musical activity,” she nods. “I think that I was able to take refuge from the more emotionally taxing tasks, like recording vocals, in guitar land while in the studio. I find creating layers and textures a most interesting and therapeutic process. The addition of full drum kit was a choice made – I really had to think about what it would mean to bring more of a band feel into some of the songs. In the end, I believe it was appropriate.”</p><p>The feel of the songs has resulted in enchanting cacophonous swells of music one moment with heartbreakingly tender moments the next, her lyrics drenched in mental images of a kind of semi-existence. Even the love songs still end with a feeling of despair.</p><p>“I can see fire, I can see where the flames grow, I can see heaven,” she reflects on Heaven, a standout track from the album, which approximates the record’s passionate post-rock textures with a lyrical burst of Old-Testament-style hellfire and damnation, akin to pre-Boatmans Call Nick Cave.</p><p>Evocative and enticing, Rundle sings her elegiac songs with anguish. Lyrics like: “Forever want to lay with you, wanting dust to dust to fade out, you’re gone”, and “furious angel rain death from above” are Miltonic in their subject matter. The sadness, bitterness and inner demons are also present on Hand of God, an ominous track where she breathes: “Someone was always wrong, someone is born tonight.”</p><p>Heaven and emotional hell are recurring themes in her work. Dylan Carlson is one of Rundle’s heroes – another songwriter wrestling with the notion of even hell having its heroes, and the man who showed musicians everywhere that you can make a career out of plumbing the depths and exercising bareness.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="360" data-orig-width="539"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/786aada9204c2500ba467c4cc26f2ff9/tumblr_inline_odvl4dEovc1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>She cites opening for Earth with Marriages as her most memorable live experience to date and she says it was an absolute honour to share a stage with the band. She also admires 40 Watt Sun and The Body. All make music that is distinctly on the darker side of the aural barometer.</p><p>In fact, look through her work and you’ll see the mapping of her influences – American gothic in her Nocturnes catalogue; post-rock, sprawling landscapes in the sound of Red Sparowes; and gloomy subject matter across Marriages, reflected back in the sounds of her favourite musical peers, Mizmor.</p><p>When Rundle tells us she has “thrashed” her body in this life and it “doesn’t enjoy the stress,” it only makes her lyrical anguish more palpable.</p><p>“Because it requires no fiction it’s difficult to lay yourself bare lyrically. It means having to relive and retell. Also committing to the statement – and making it in a somewhat public medium – can be a hard thing to confront,” she explains.</p><p>Rundle is one of the hardest working artists around today. Many fans would take a look at the musical projects she’s working on and expect a burnout – in the next six months she’s working on a release for Electric Guitar: Two, more solo material, a split with Jay Jayle which is “highly probable”, a collaboration with Dylan Carlson, a THP OZ cassette, two tours and more. But she’s actually thriving.</p><p>“There is no point in recording solo albums where you can check out or take a break. Or in your career for that matter. You must work hard all the time when it’s just you,” she says.</p><p>And where better to record than somewhere which allows full creative control? In Marked For Death’s instance, LA’s The Farm was the perfect location for Rundle to make the record: a live-in space shared with engineer and co-producer Sonny DiPerri.</p><p>This freedom makes for another honest record, rather than deliberately stitching together something in a more traditional and contrived studio environment.</p><p>“Sonny and I both liked the idea of recording in the space, making the place part of the sound. Bringing the studio into a domestic situation also makes getting the most out of available time possible,” she says. “I would prefer to record in situations like this in the future. I am glad to say I was the last artist to make full use of the space there… all of the reverb on the entire record comes from the massive empty steel barn that was on the property.”</p><p>On the eve of her 33rd birthday, we ask her if travelling has helped shape her sound and if she looks forward to going out on tour as much now she’s getting older.</p><p>“I think I am less excited to be sleeping on floors and getting little food or rest,” she laughs. “I go through long periods of sobriety which I try to maintain but it can be very hard for me on the road. Performing music live is emotionally taxing and I sometimes turn to unhealthy habits for comfort. I would like to believe that these things will get easier for me as I grow older, but who knows?”</p><p>Strip away the 40-odd minutes a night a band will spend on stage, where fans nod along, clap and occasionally (this is serious-rock) cheer, and there is little glamour to touring. Especially for someone who has been doing it for the best part of a decade now. It’s easy to see how the recurrences and indignities of touring life can start to lose their appeal. But it’s a necessary part of the job – you can only reach new audiences with the exposure touring brings and Emma knows this.</p><p>She admits she’s “a bit of a maniac” when it comes to making music and she definitely has an intense side. That’s hardly surprising, considering she has spent so long honing her craft – her music may be bleak, but it’s also gentle, considered and seductive too.</p><p>She is wry and honest, and you can find two extremes in her personality: the expressive and the private.</p><p>Her dual nature makes her intriguing, but now that Red Sparowes are no more and she focuses increasing attention on Marriages and releasing music under her own name, she is well and truly in the spotlight.</p><p>Perhaps it’s fair to note that at this point in her career Rundle has made the leap to singer-songwriter in the purest sense, and that all the hard work and diversification is paying off. She might shy away from identifying this about herself, but what can’t be denied is that while Red Sparrows were, and Marriages are, undeniably thrilling and intense live acts, her ERR solo material has real, personal depth.</p><p>“Every album I’ve ever been part of making has been a unique experience,” she offers. “I will say that recording albums as ERR is more stressful as I feel most of the pressure is on me to execute all the songwriting and parts. I enjoy collaboration but at the same time I am a bit of a maniac which can make long-term working relationships hard as I like to be free to do whatever I want.” She pauses. “That said; being part of a band or group dynamic is good for moving those things along. I really did love to be one of many voices in Red Sparowes.”</p><p>Whenever you think you understand Emma Ruth Rundle she pitches something to throw you off. And as she segues into her latest album, it’s proof that there’s no exceptions. The only thing that holds fast is her commitment.</p><p>“I have set myself up in a world where I believe I have the freedom as an artist to continue to pursue many different incarnations,” she says. “I hope to realize more ambient music as well as unleash a shredding metal solo on some record down the line. The work so far is varied and will continue to be as long as I am fortunate enough to participate in the arts.”</p><p>In the age of auto-tune and disposable pop, it perhaps flatters her to be thought of as being a part of something more durable, and despite her not being equitable in assessing her own merits, even Rundle herself can admit that creating music “from the heart” and constantly striving for more is something she will always prioritise.</p><p>“I think being a slave to a sound is one of the most tragic things that can happen to a band or musician,” she opines. “A Groundhog Day or infinite hall of mirrors. My hope is to continue to create music from the heart – in whatever way that makes sense for me in the moment.”</p><p>Gazing forward, it’s a certainty that Rundle – restless in her continued experimentation – will delve into new styles of music, projects, collaborations and art projects.</p><p>But to reiterate an earlier point, it’s always helpful to have her own unique talent and voice to fall back on. This is the cue for Emma to return to work on her Inuyasha costume, or pick up her guitar, before she reconvenes with likeminded individuals back out on the road. As she continues to represent a diverse tradition of artistry, there’s no doubt that when Rundle is passionate about something, it becomes an obsession.</p><p>“There’s never a dull moment here,” she smiles. “I must stay busy to keep the crazy away.”</p><p>Faye Lewis<br>@fayelewis85</p><p>Catch her on the following dates with <a href="http://www.wovenhandband.com/shows" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a>:</p><p> Sep 21 MUNICH, DE – Ampere</p><p>Sep 22 LEIPZIG, DE – UT Connewitz</p><p>Sep 23 BERLIN, DE – Heimathafen</p><p>Sep 26 ARHUS, DK – Train</p><p>Sep 27 OSLO, NO – John Dee</p><p>Sep 30 STOCKHOLM, SE – Nalen</p><p>Oct 01 LUND, SE – Mejeriet</p><p>Oct 02 COPENHAGEN, DK – Vega Jr.</p><p>Oct 04 EINDHOVEN, NL – Effenaar</p><p>Oct 05 AMSTERDAM, NL – Melkweg</p><p>Oct 06 LEUVEN, BE – Het Depot</p><p>Oct 07 GENT, BE – Handelsbeurs</p><p>Oct 08 CHARLEROI, BE – L’Eden</p><p>Oct 10 LILLE, FR – L’Aéronef</p><p>Oct 11 PARIS, FR – La Maroquinerie</p><p>Oct 13 ORLEANS, FR – L’Astrolabe</p><p>Oct 14 GRENOBLE, FR – La Belle Electrique</p><p>Oct 15 FEYZIN, FR – L’Epicerie Moderne</p><p>Oct 16 TOULOUSE, FR – La Rex</p><p>Oct 18 LONDON, UK – The Dome</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43833462016-09-21T09:10:59-07:002017-01-10T06:30:33-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle premieres video for new song “Real Big Sky” via Noisey<figure data-orig-width="613" data-orig-height="45" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/bc81b3ac204f609c2b022f1e1ef8a34c/tumblr_inline_odv3a8GNO41qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1225" data-orig-height="720" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/21b9fd21a922fb68bf8ad51d21d5b336/tumblr_inline_odv3buH4Hq1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="947" data-orig-height="246" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/05fff5521947e5724dd2648c9b59b0e0/tumblr_inline_odv3c1Dr2e1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="619" data-orig-height="125" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/0383a800aa3549a4799e4b306cf13627/tumblr_inline_odv3c7AZYl1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> opens her video for “Real Big Sky” with a monologue about appreciating the ethereal. “I don’t think there’s anything more exhilarating than seeing natural beauty,” she says. “It’s like seeing things that there aren’t words for.”</p><p>True to that theme, the song and video are haunting, transcendent, and a bunch of other adjectives you might throw out in a vain attempt at describing something whose beauty can’t easily be contained with words. Set against the darkness of dusk, the video sees Rundle, the wonderfully gloomy songwriter behind acts like Marriages and Red Sparowes, waxing about the hopefulness of mortality over the discordant yet sweet sounds of her scratchy guitar. “Real Big Sky” is the final song on her crushing new album, <i>Marked for Death</i>. It is, in a word, beautiful.</p><p><i>Marked for Death</i> is out September 30 <a href="https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">via Sargent House</a>, and Emma Ruth Rundle is on tour with <a href="http://wovenhandband.com" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a>. Dates below the video.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed tmblr-full" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="459" data-orig-height="344" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwDlJ7BBPJw0"><iframe width="540" height="405" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDlJ7BBPJw0?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure><!-- more --><p>EMMA RUTH RUNDLE Live 2016</p><p>Sep 21 Munich, DE – Ampere<br>Sep 22 Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz<br>Sep 23 Berlin, DE – Heimathafen<br>Sep 26 Arhus, DK – Train<br>Sep 29 Helsinki, FI – Tavastia<br>Sep 30 Stockholm, SE – Nalen<br>Oct 01 Lund, SE – Mejeriet<br>Oct 02 Copenhagen, DK – Vega Jr.<br>Oct 04 Eindhoven, NL – Effenaar<br>Oct 05 Amsterdam, NL – Melkweg<br>Oct 06 Leuven, BE – Het Depot<br>Oct 07 Ghent, BE – Handelsbeurs<br>Oct 08 Charleroi, BE – L'Eden<br>Oct 10 Lille, FR – L'Aéronef<br>Oct 11 Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie<br>Oct 13 Orleans, FR – L'Astrolabe<br>Oct 14 Grenoble, FR – La Belle Electrique<br>Oct 15 Feyzin, FR – L'Epicerie Moderne<br>Oct 16 Toulouse, FR – La Rex<br>Oct 18 London, UK – The Dome<br></p><p><i>all dates with Wovenhand</i></p><p><a href="https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/emma-ruth-rundle-explores-the-hopefulness-of-mortality-in-real-big-sky" target="_blank">(via Noisey)</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43619532016-09-07T14:19:41-07:002017-01-10T06:30:32-08:00Music Radar Asks Emma Ruth Rundle 10 Questions<figure data-orig-width="250" data-orig-height="61"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/ff56b027e3cc3f80e98652d26f7e70f7/tumblr_inline_od5isoZih21qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1204" data-orig-height="672" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/19885aac444cd228d0f04440c1edf87c/tumblr_inline_od5irrs9SR1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s atmosphere-heavy guitar work is a lynchpin of Sargent House favourites <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> and post-rock behemoth Red Sparowes, but her solo material displays a raw, more personal side to the LA native.</p><p>On second album, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a>, Emma’s love of atmosphere and alternate tunings is paired with an increased focus on her nuanced vocal delivery, resulting in an album that is more intimate and, as a result, emotionally heavy than past material.</p><p>Here, Emma lets us in on her unusual picking technique, the intimate relationship she holds with each of her instruments, and - of all things - time-travelling violins…</p><p><b>1. What was your first guitar and when did you get it?</b></p><p>“It’s hard to recall whose instruments were whose during the time in my life when I started playing. I was spending a lot of time at McCabe’s in Santa Monica. It’s most likely that the first guitar I was playing was a really cheap (but playable) nylon-string. I do remember having that around and eventually destroying it years and years later. I must have been 12 years old.</p><p>"The first guitar that was mine was a 1973 Sunburst Fender Mustang. I was 13 then - someone at McCabe’s took kindly to me and sold the guitar to my father for almost nothing. I played it through my stepmother’s bass amp along to Hendrix, Nirvana and of course Smashing Pumpkins… badly…</p><p>"A Mustang is actually a good choice for a young person because of its small body and short scale. Once I started playing more seriously, I sold the guitar (for a good price, ha), as I couldn’t stand how twangy it was or the intensely radiused neck. I thought it might be bad luck to let go of one’s first ride, but I needed something with humbuckers.”</p><!-- more --><p><b>2. The building’s burning down – what one guitar do you save?</b></p><p>I love all my instruments and have very personal attachments to them all. I don’t have any children or pets now, just tools<br>“Woah. It’s so hard to say, but I guess I would have to save the Jag Baritone HH Special, just because it was so hard to acquire. I love all my instruments and have very personal attachments to them all. I don’t have any children or pets now, just tools. Each one of the guitars has its own songs hidden inside.</p><p>"I might have to save my acoustic Blueridge OM as I have written the most music on it other than my Gibson SG (which is maybe the most ‘replaceable’ guitar). Hard to choose.</p><p>"The truth is, the fire might be a sign, giving me an opportunity to just walk away from all earthly possessions for good. I’d switch to flute at that point as it’s easy to keep on your person at all times!”</p><p><b>3. Is there a guitar, or piece of gear, that you regret letting go?</b></p><p>“Not really, maybe my pipa. I had an Access Virus TI synth that was stolen, and I have never gotten over that.”</p><p><b>4. And what’s the next piece of gear you’d like to acquire?</b></p><p>“I have my heart set on the Chinese Gu Zheng. I guess it’s considered a zither-like instrument. To me, it represents beauty, tradition and a domestic stability that I seek today. In other words, I feel like if I’m able to acquire one and get lessons it would mean I was able to stay in one place (geographically and mentally) long enough to improve myself, and that doing so would bring me some peace. Here is an example.”</p><p><b>5. Is there an aspect of guitar playing that you’d like to be better at?</b></p><p>I wish I had learned to play with a plectrum. I play with extended nails on my right hand in a bastardised fingerstyle<br>“All of it, really. I wish I had learned to play with a plectrum. I play with extended nails on my right hand in a bastardised fingerstyle.</p><p>"I should be more familiar with standard tuning. I moved to alternate tunings very early on as they were just easier for me to make sense of. This has alienated me from other players to some extent. There is so much to learn… always.”</p><p><b>6. When did you last practise and what did you play?</b></p><p>“I practised last night - I try to run through my set and then invariably end up noodling. The truth is I’ve never been a person who practises or does homework. I wish I was more focused and committed to exercises or learning specific things (pieces, styles, scales - anything) but I’m not. The instrument is a portal.</p><p>"Learning to play '80s-era metal solos on electric guitar is a goal I have set for myself to accomplish in the next 10 years. I know I will have to learn the art of practice first in order to learn the shreds.”</p><p><b>7. If you could have a guitar lesson from one guitarist, dead or alive, who would it be?</b></p><p>“I would really have to meditate on this question. King Buzzo taught me a few things on tour once, and that was a real dream come true. Maybe I would spend a day with the late Chris Whitley. Richard Thompson… He is a master of all styles - so maybe he would be the best choice.”</p><p><b>8. What item of gear would you take with you to a desert island?</b></p><p>“Is there power there? Could I harness electricity in some way? Let’s assume no. I would take a violin as I think I could spend a lifetime trying to learn how to play it, and I heard somewhere that if you play a certain note at the right time, it tears a hole through time and space - so maybe I could get back to the mainland that way, eventually.”</p><p><b>9. What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you onstage?</b></p><p>“Becoming aware of being on a stage. I’ve never had a fall or been assaulted. There are the gear failures all of us come to accept as part of the live experience.”</p><p><b>10. What advice would you give your younger self about playing the guitar?</b></p><p>I would try to encourage young me to play with other people - I felt so alienated due to fear<br>“I would provide some encouragement and convey that it’s okay to play one’s own style and to work harder at developing it. I wish I could go back to help that girl and make her less afraid. I would advise her to start calling herself a guitarist and to feel unashamed and unafraid. Those feelings are ultimately a waste of time and get in the way of progress and accomplishment.</p><p>"I would try to encourage young me to play with other people - I felt so alienated due to fear. I would also have told her to start working on those shredding solos then so I wouldn’t have to start from the ground up now. Ha!”</p><p>Marked For Death is out on 30 September via <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/home" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>.</p><p>Via <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/10-questions-for-emma-ruth-rundle-642123" target="_blank">Music Radar</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43500112016-08-30T18:28:16-07:002017-01-10T06:30:31-08:00The Revue // “Protection” Track Review<figure data-orig-width="1012" data-orig-height="274" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//65.media.tumblr.com/f77a4addaef9d9026c44872161c29261/tumblr_inline_ocr287pXUl1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="1200" data-orig-height="1200" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/94536f396546e5c9419d35bd9a0aea23/tumblr_inline_ocr2fwgEgy1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p>Many artists have been described as “the next PJ Harvey”, and we have uttered the words. IN the case of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, however, there is no hyperbole. The Los Angeles-based artist has fully earned the distinction with her haunting approach that recalls the iconic English singer-songwriter. Her hush, downtempo ballad, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">“Marked for Death”</a>, captivated us. With “Protection”, she has us shaking in our boots.</p><p>The song is beautifully stark and brooding. The collision of gritty, reverb guitars and cascading rhythms create the crippling soundscape while Rundle’s chilling, vulnerable vocals hover above. Like the song’s message about oppression and dominance, “Protection” will bring you to your knees. There are not many artists that we can say have had this visceral effect on us, and Rundle has only shared two songs from her forthcoming album.</p><p>Rundle’s sophomore album, Marked For Death, will be released September 30 via Sargent House. Pre-orders are at her <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Bandcamp page</a>. She heads to Europe on September 12th to commence a month-long tour. She will hopefully be making her way to North America and abroad this autumn.</p><p>Via <a href="http://therevue.ca/2016/08/30/the-matinee-august-30th/" target="_blank">the Revue</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43471812016-08-29T09:42:24-07:002017-01-10T06:30:31-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle premieres new track “Protection” via Stereogum<p><figure data-orig-width="271" data-orig-height="40"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/a0fc49c9c5c86416e879ab1543e3fadd/tumblr_inline_ocoj1onAnS1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="640" data-orig-height="640" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/e45dff0a4068f143ec9c5f294ae6ebe5/tumblr_inline_ocoj1dynLl1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="631" data-orig-height="83" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/c2b0dea51aee88ff957484723c67cb8d/tumblr_inline_ocoj1vUW0h1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure></p><p><i>by Chris DeVille</i></p><p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> recently announced her new album <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a> and shared its tremendous <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1890894/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death/mp3s/" target="_blank">title track</a>. Now the Red Sparrowes and <a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> member is back with a second single from the album, the darkly climactic rocker “Protection.” In a press release about the album, Rundle explains, “The subject matter is largely about being defeated and shrunken into the base human themes of love and loss. It’s a far cry from high art. It’s very much from the dirt.” And yet “Protection” is a truly soaring creative work, one you should check out below.<br></p><p><a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1896176/emma-ruth-rundle-protection/franchises/premiere/" target="_blank">Visit Stereogum to hear “Protection”</a></p><figure data-orig-width="631" data-orig-height="169" class="tmblr-full"><a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1896176/emma-ruth-rundle-protection/franchises/premiere/" target="_blank"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/b3da3a75e55d4c8d2ceb60195633dac6/tumblr_inline_ocoj5yKhUt1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></figure><p>Emma Ruth Rundle will tour Europe with <a href="http://wovenhandband.com" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a> starting September 12th. Click <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">HERE</a> for tickets and view a full list of dates below.</p><p><b>EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 2016 EUROPEAN TOUR</b></p><p>Sep 12 - COLOGNE, DE – Gebäude 9<br>Sep 13 - FRANKFURT, DE – Zoom<br>Sep 15 - BERN, CH – ISC<br>Sep 16 - ZURICH, CH – Bogen F<br>Sep 17 - VIENNA, AT – Flex<br>Sep 18 - BUDAPEST, HU – A38<br>Sep 20 - SALZBURG, AT – Rockhouse<br>Sep 21 - MUNICH, DE – Ampere<br>Sep 22 - LEIPZIG, DE – UT Connewitz<br>Sep 23 - BERLIN, DE – Heimathafen<br>Sep 26 - ARHUS, DK – Train<br>Sep 27 - OSLO, NO – John Dee<br>Sep 30 - STOCKHOLM, SE – Nalen<br>Oct 01 - LUND, SE – Mejeriet<br>Oct 02 - COPENHAGEN, DK – Vega Jr.<br>Oct 04 - EINDHOVEN, NL – Effenaar<br>Oct 05 - AMSTERDAM, NL – Melkweg<br>Oct 06 - LEUVEN, BE – Het Depot<br>Oct 07 - GENT, BE – Handelsbeurs<br>Oct 08 - CHARLEROI, BE – L’Eden<br>Oct 10 - LILLE, FR – L’Aéronef<br>Oct 11 - PARIS, FR – La Maroquinerie<br>Oct 13 - ORLEANS, FR – L’Astrolabe<br>Oct 14 - GRENOBLE, FR – La Belle Electrique<br>Oct 15 - FEYZIN, FR – L’Epicerie Moderne<br>Oct 16 - TOULOUSE, FR – La Rex<br>Oct 18 - LONDON, UK – The Dome</p><p><i> all dates with Wovenhand</i></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43372482016-08-22T17:50:10-07:002017-01-10T06:30:30-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Announces European Tour w/ Wovenhand<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1280" data-orig-width="848"><img src="//66.media.tumblr.com/bf49db79ba01d6efee04ad2e50aac256/tumblr_inline_occ7kkL48F1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has announced a European tour supporting <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/wovenhand" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a>. Her upcoming album, <i><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Marked For Death</a></i>, comes out September 30th. </p><p>EMMA RUTH RUNDLE 2016 EUROPEAN TOUR:</p><p>Sep 12 - COLOGNE, DE – Gebäude 9<br>Sep 13 - FRANKFURT, DE – Zoom<br>Sep 15 - BERN, CH – ISC<br>Sep 16 - ZURICH, CH – Bogen F<br>Sep 17 - VIENNA, AT – Flex<br>Sep 18 - BUDAPEST, HU – A38<br>Sep 20 - SALZBURG, AT – Rockhouse<br>Sep 21 - MUNICH, DE – Ampere<br>Sep 22 - LEIPZIG, DE – UT Connewitz<br>Sep 23 - BERLIN, DE – Heimathafen<br>Sep 26 - ARHUS, DK – Train<br>Sep 27 - OSLO, NO – John Dee<br>Sep 30 - STOCKHOLM, SE – Nalen<br>Oct 01 - LUND, SE – Mejeriet<br>Oct 02 - COPENHAGEN, DK – Vega Jr.<br>Oct 04 - EINDHOVEN, NL – Effenaar<br>Oct 05 - AMSTERDAM, NL – Melkweg<br>Oct 06 - LEUVEN, BE – Het Depot<br>Oct 07 - GENT, BE – Handelsbeurs<br>Oct 08 - CHARLEROI, BE – L’Eden<br>Oct 10 - LILLE, FR – L’Aéronef<br>Oct 11 - PARIS, FR – La Maroquinerie<br>Oct 13 - ORLEANS, FR – L’Astrolabe<br>Oct 14 - GRENOBLE, FR – La Belle Electrique<br>Oct 15 - FEYZIN, FR – L’Epicerie Moderne<br>Oct 16 - TOULOUSE, FR – La Rex<br>Oct 18 - LONDON, UK – The Dome</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/43215552016-08-11T15:56:34-07:002017-01-10T06:30:28-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle featured on Bitch Magazine<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="155" data-orig-width="556"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/2cc99316bcd4d6996ed529b3c23f4059/tumblr_inline_obroqryM4j1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="109" data-orig-width="706"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/ca408a035e1f8bceef4165eaab0a431b/tumblr_inline_obroqm1ZuZ1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="451" data-orig-width="681"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/3a316cecc7282ede24ebf27076d5da2f/tumblr_inline_obrokf0hMG1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Prolific guitarist and songwriter <a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> finds a variety of ways to weave gothic elements into her music. Rundle caught audiences’ attentions with her expressive work in Red Sparowes, which has toured with goth godfather Nick Cave. More recently, Los Angeles–based Rundle formed <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> with Greg Burns and Andrew Clinco. While Red Sparowes’s sound leans in a moody, shoegazey direction, Marriages sounds more like what you’d get if you locked the Sundays and early-years Dead Can Dance in a dark room together. Meanwhile, Rundle’s solo work is dark, acoustic, and often ethereal—a kind of unplugged sister to her <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> labelmate Chelsea Wolfe, one of the best-known musicians in present-day goth.</p><p>Rundle, whose new solo album, <a href="https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death" target="_blank">Marked for Death</a>, drops in September, says she sees goth’s influence all over her music, particularly in her fondness for reverb and minor chords and her love of darkness.</p><p>Although she is often compared to goth artists of yore such as the Cocteau Twins, Rundle says such comparisons are flattering but inaccurate, and that the complex distinctions between women musicians are often ignored: “All us women wearing anything black or flowing, or perhaps even in well cut-button downs, will all be put into the same space ship of sadness and sailed into the nothing.”</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/42994022016-07-28T08:59:10-07:002017-01-10T06:30:26-08:00NEW TRACK PREMIERE: Emma Ruth Rundle ‘Marked For Death’ via The FADER<figure data-orig-width="1036" data-orig-height="309" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//67.media.tumblr.com/88210779a2d9593f0f8c307e0c954eb2/tumblr_inline_ob17xdTu4k1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="591" data-orig-height="391" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//65.media.tumblr.com/25d173ece45adf0f70a021efc4f73dfc/tumblr_inline_ob17zjMKEE1qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><i>photo by Gus Black</i><br><br><a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who performs with various local L.A. bands in addition to penning her own solo work. Marked For Death is Rundle’s next solo release, a sophomore effort of Cat Power-like tenderness and PJ Harvey-level intensity, out September 30 on Sargent House (preorder it here).<br></p><p>Today Rundle shares the album’s eponymous, opening track, a moody, romantically apocalyptic song that sets the stage for the rest of the record. Who else is gonna love someone like you who’s marked for death? goes Rundle’s rumbling, ominous refrain. Who else is gonna be with you when you breathe your last breath?<br><br>“‘Marked For Death’ was the first song I had written for this record,” Rundle wrote to The FADER. “It’s a defeated love song of sorts: from the self loathing alcoholic in flames to her one time truly broken, lost and mentally ill friend.”</p><p>Listen <a href="http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/28/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="428" data-orig-width="594"><img src="//65.media.tumblr.com/87a78146de2582dd056249044c1165c3/tumblr_inline_ob18trF94g1rlbw04_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>via <a href="http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/28/emma-ruth-rundle-marked-for-death" target="_blank">The FADER</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/38896802015-10-08T18:11:15-07:002017-01-10T06:29:58-08:00Metal Assault Live Review / Los Angeles Oct. 7<figure data-orig-width="774" data-orig-height="144" class="tmblr-full"><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/aae75ecf1590a1aa5fede8f42b9b5525/tumblr_inline_nvxgzmLpZ21qbzv4w_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="667" data-orig-width="1000"><img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/39108288d34eb36230e74468127c16c5/tumblr_inline_nvxhgpMsX91qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>…<a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, clad in an elegant black dress, took the stage and through a simple and minimal setup of a microphone, guitar and pedalboard, she successfully held the entire room captive with a tender singing voice and melancholic guitar play. While she tuned her guitar between songs, she filled silences with ambient loops and samples. ‘Shadows Of My Name’ off of her 2014 full-length <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House Records</a> release ‘<i>Some Heavy Ocean</i>’ is one of the simplest yet most captivating musical compositions I have come across in recent years, and it was also the highlight of this set as <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle </a>strummed on the guitar with added intensity and vocally broke out of the tenderness to hit soaring highs. Another notable segment of her set was when she was joined by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alcest.official" target="_blank">Alcest</a> frontman Neige, as he walked onto the stage with no prior announcement or introduction by her, and garnered a huge cheer from a pleasantly surprised audience as a result. </p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="532" data-orig-width="828"><img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/cf6ed7179d5de1cfc44dba40f9b71f47/tumblr_inline_nvxhl9s1PF1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p>Emma Ruth Rundle’s music is not hard rock or heavy metal, and many, including the artist, might wonder why she is being written about on this site, but there is no denying that her dark, melancholic musical expression is akin to that of some variants of heavy metal, and is more engaging and powerful than a lot of things that do get categorized as metal. Fans of latter-years Alcest, and the post/atmospheric/ambient/progressive rock realm in general, would find Emma Ruth Rundle’s artistry worthwhile, and ticket holders of the remaining shows on this tour are strongly encouraged to turn up early enough to watch her set.</p><p><b>Video footage of Emma Ruth Rundle performing with Neige of Alcest at this show:</b></p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HnVamQJUsCg" width="500" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe><p></p><p><a href="http://metalassault.com/gig_reviews/2015/10/08/alcest-hypnotizes-the-regent/" target="_blank">To read full review on Metal Assault click HERE</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/38467942015-09-08T13:47:23-07:002015-09-08T13:47:23-07:00On Tour with Marriages & Creepoid // THE FARM FAMILY<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="224" data-orig-width="903"><div style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.thefarmfamily.com/mrgs-crpd-tour" target="_blank"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/90022c85894fe926c9cb72c2c25fa13f/tumblr_inline_nudkrc5P7Q1r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></div></figure>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><i>all photos and words by Danielle Leonard</i></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Two weeks after I started interning at Sargent House, I was sent on a full US tour with Marriages. For someone who is not a musician and has never been on the road in this capacity, this was a totally new experience. On tour you'd expect to make a million new friends in every city but the ones I got the closest to were those I was trapped in a van with for a month straight. Before leaving, I had never even met anyone in either band, so it was a really nice surprise to discover that they were some of the most genuine and nicest people I’d ever met. They each have their own strong personalities (which tended at times to clash), but the passion and dedication put into their music creates an undeniable and necessary bond between them. We had our fair share of mechanical and van problems along the way, but even popping a tire fifteen minutes from the venue proves that while most things were out of our control, at least everyone stuffed in the van was going through it all together.</p>
<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="451" data-orig-width="920"><div style="text-align: center;"><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.thefarmfamily.com/mrgs-crpd-tour"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/9ec6107e3b2398d972137cf6b93535ee/tumblr_inline_nudkxfsYJn1r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></div></figure>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://www.thefarmfamily.com/mrgs-crpd-tour">See full photoset at THE FARM FAMILY site</a></strong></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/37967882015-07-30T15:33:47-07:002017-01-10T06:29:49-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Cover Story Interview<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/159790/6078d78bc3de127ba044d490d386dd7bdf356674/original/gwenstefanicover.jpg?1438295497" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>Emma Ruth Rundle is interviewed and is on the cover of this weeks (August 1, 2015) ABQ Free Press - where she talks about the new Marriages album and the life of being on tour.<br> Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/37794742015-07-15T15:23:54-07:002015-07-15T18:32:05-07:00Emma Ruth Rundle to join Alcest on North American Tour<figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1000" data-orig-width="647"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/9b4bcc6bee4e14dfa1511b3308038709/tumblr_inline_nrjuiyw2uT1rlbw04_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></figure><p><a href="http://www.emmaruthrundle.com" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be joining <a href="http://alcest-music.com" target="_blank">Alcest</a> on their newly announced North American Tour this Fall (via <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/07/alcest_announce_1.html" target="_blank">Brooklyn Vegan</a>).</p><p>For all ERR show/ticket details click <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p><b>Alcest / Emma Ruth Rundle – 2015 Tour Dates</b><br>September 21 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall<br>September 22 New York, NY Highline Ballroom <br>September 23 Montreal, QC L'Alize<br>September 24 Ottawa, ON Mavericks<br>September 25 Toronto, ON Hard Luck Bar<br>September 26 Chicago, IL Subterranean<br>September 28 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater<br>September 30 Boise, ID Neurolux<br>October 1 Vancouver, BC Venue<br>October 2 Seattle, WA Crocodile<br>October 3 Portland, OR Dante’s <br>October 6 San Francisco, CA Slim’s<br>October 7 Los Angeles, CA The Regent<br>October 8 Mesa, AZ Club Red<br>October 9 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad<br>October 10 Dallas, TX Sons Of Hermann Hall <br>October 11 Austin, TX Red 7<br>October 13 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade<br>October 14 Tampa, FL The Orpheum<br>October 15 Raleigh, NC King’s Baracde<br>October 16 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery<br>October 17 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s</p><p>Note: ERR will not be on the Mexico date</p><p>//</p><p>Emma is also currently on tour with <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> on their Headlining US Summer 2015 tour w/<a href="http://www.facebook.com/creepoid" target="_blank">creepoid</a> joining them on most of the dates.</p><p>For all Marriages show//ticket details click <a href="http://www.marriagesband.com/shows" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/37292032015-06-04T11:35:37-07:002023-12-10T08:59:02-08:00WXPN Folkadelphia: Emma Ruth Rundle Solo Acoustic Session<a href="http://folkadelphia.com/2015/06/04/folkadelphia-session-emma-ruth-rundle/"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/95ed80275e4115e8699f4dd9d262f83e/tumblr_inline_npflm2Muaq1r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a>
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<p>On <a href="www.marriagesband.com/emma-ruth-rundle">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>‘s latest solo outing <i>Some Heavy Ocean</i>, she reconciles in a bold and beautiful manner her diverse musical styles and interests honed over the years while performing in groups like <a href="www.marriagesband.com">Marriages</a>, <a href="http://www.redsparowes.com/News.aspx">Red Sparowes</a>, and <a href="https://thenocturnes.bandcamp.com">the Nocturnes</a>. Her voice is truly the centerpiece of the album – strong, defiant, and upfront. Rundle is cast as the beacon of light in a soundscape that exists as dense fog-like endlessness. It’s a sound as attractive and with the destructive potential of a black hole. Space, outer, inner, or otherwise, plays an important role here too. The songwriter has a deep understanding of dynamics. There’s drama, there’s build, there’s tension and release. On this heavy ocean, the waves ebb and flow to create emotional peaks and valleys. All the while, Rundle gives us her monochromatic all, an infinite variety of diversity in between the black of the void and the purest white light.</p>
<p>While she performs alone, adorned with just voice and electric guitar, for our Folkadelphia Session, she is no less subdued. <i><a href="https://folkadelphia.bandcamp.com/album/emma-ruth-rundle-folkadelphia-session-11-2-2014">Listen to Emma Ruth Rundle’s in-studio session now</a>.</i></p>
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<p>via <a href="http://folkadelphia.com/2015/06/04/folkadelphia-session-emma-ruth-rundle/">FOLKADELPHIA</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/36352422015-03-31T11:23:56-07:002015-03-31T18:31:44-07:00Antidote Mag Interviews Marriages’ Emma Ruth Rundle<figure data-orig-width="474" data-orig-height="163" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/01a04cb79b6539ad5c69be150c67d00e/tumblr_inline_nm3923nMw71r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="551" data-orig-height="521" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/5e488d43abd3faca720ae936b20f56a1/tumblr_inline_nm392fOKDG1r4656p_540.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> are a three-piece band from Los Angeles, CA who have made a splash in the daunting regime of music. Their shoegaze-esque sounds mixed with a heavy mindset flows gorgeously in each slow-building song they create, making them a band to keep an eye on.</p><p>Their new album, <a href="http://marriagesband.com/salome" target="_blank">Salome</a>, is scheduled for release on April 7th and it is a stunning assortment of psychedelia, brutality, forlornness, and confidence. Each track clearly depicts the band’s strengths, from front woman <a href="http://marriagesband.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle’s </a>soaring vocals to <a href="http://marriagesband.com/greg-burns" target="_blank">Greg Burns’</a> sultry bass riffs and <a href="http://marriagesband.com/andrew-clinco" target="_blank">Andrew Clinco</a>’s entrancing drum rhythms. I had the opportunity to interview Emma about the group’s new album, some superstitions in association to Salome, and her opinions on the aesthetics of being a band. Check out what we discussed below:</p><!-- more --><p><b>JC: How did the band come into existence and is there a back story to the band’s name?</b></p><p>ERR: While there isn’t much back story to the name Marriages, I could spend some time trying to illustrate the strange events and people that have brought Greg and I into a musical relationship and to eventually forming the band.</p><p>The short story is this: Greg Burns and I played in another band together before Marriages. That band was Los Angeles-based, instrumental-post-rock outfit, Red Sparowes.</p><p>Just to clarify: Greg and I are not married and never were – ha – people ask sometimes.</p><p><b>JC: Salome marks your first official studio album. How was the process in creating this album in comparison to previous projects?</b></p><p>ERR: Salome was hard – it was a hard record to complete. Everything from the writing process to recording and mixing, it was hard, and seemed to take a lot of time. The space between releases makes this clear. I have felt, in some way, that there exists some force in opposition to this project. I’m superstitious. I’m curious to see what happens now that it’s survived and escaped.</p><p><b>JC: Where did the concept of Salome’s album cover come from?</b></p><p>ERR: It’s a collaboration between us all and is loosely based on the story of Salome and her famed dance. She’s quite the figure and has inspired a great many other works. A quick Google search will inform [those] who may not know of her as to her prolific incarnations and connotations. It is said that her dance in [front] of King Herod resulted in the beheading of John the Baptist. Making the album art was one of the more enjoyable activities related to this record. All of us had a hand in the production of the images but the execution fell onto our own Greg Burns who is also a gifted photographer.</p><p><b>JC: Is there a specific feeling or emotion you are trying to portray in making your music?</b></p><p>ERR: It’s different for each of us, I’m sure. Most of the emotion is communicated via the vocals and lyrics (for me) and each song works through things in my personal life and mind. It’s hard to answer questions like this because the other two members are not privy to my experience and I am not to theirs. We don’t talk about the personal aspect of the music. I am glad you asked this… it may be time to find out what the others think.</p><p>Salome is an angry record. In the songs that were written over the span of Salome’s coagulation, I felt defeated by addiction; whorish, betrayed and furious. I felt so much frustration with the relationships I was having with the men in my life and with myself for not being able to better control my erratic behaviors or the actions of others.</p><p><b>JC: How do you respond to any negative feedback? Does it affect you at all or do you shrug it off?</b></p><p>ERR: I don’t wish to be affected by any kind of feedback and I try not to look at it too much. It’s not hard to avoid, really, as long as it stays safely caged within the internet. When it happens in person, say at show, I try to be cordial and focus on the task at hand. It would be most impactful if it came from a peer or someone close.</p><p><b>JC: What have been the best concert experiences for you? Where are your favorite places to play?</b></p><p>ERR: I have a memory like a goldfish and find it hard to remember specific shows but after doing several tours, you start to remember venues and cities. For Marriages – I love Red 7 in Austin and The Earl in Atlanta – the energy in these places is good for the music we play.</p><p>One show stands out. Marriages was opening for Bosnian Rainbows in Atlanta in 2013 in front of a pretty packed house and a fight broke out mid-song. I stopped the show and was able to help break and a knife was handed up to me on the stage. We spread the word of love, people united in the moment and the show went on and was awesome.</p><p><b>JC: Where do you hope to see Marriages in a few years?</b></p><p>ERR: I am curious to see what becomes of Marriages in the wake of Salome. There are things bands “should do” like tour Europe (which we are doing this April in support of Wovenhand) and the U.S., start work on another release, etc.</p><p>I would really like to find a way for Marriages to be more productive in a way that doesn’t incur so much resistance from the ether. Find focus and finish the art book we have been working on for some time. I would like for us to have collaborated with some other bands. I would like to see us getting tighter as a group of musicians (playing-wise). I would like to see us headline our own tours. I want to see us happy – but not to the detriment of writing angsty music – ha.</p><p>By <a href="http://antidotemag.com/author/jacob-crepeault/" target="_blank">Jacob Crepeault of AntidoteMag</a></p><p><i>Don’t miss Marriages on tour in Europe starting April 9th at Roadburn Festival then as direct support to <a href="http://wovenhandband.com/" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a> as well as a few headline shows of their own including Budapest and in London, UK on May 1st. See ALL <a href="http://marriagesband.com/shows" target="_blank">Marriages dates</a> and pre-order info at their new site.<br><a href="http://marriagesband.com/" target="_blank">Marriagesband.com</a></i><br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/36333672015-03-30T16:19:38-07:002015-03-30T22:46:16-07:00MUSIC&RIOTS MAGAZINE FEATURES MARRIAGES // ISSUE #10<figure data-orig-width="679" data-orig-height="960" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/ce171908cd6e1769fc4409155ac953e6/tumblr_inline_nm1va3Cg9G1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><!-- more --><figure data-orig-width="593" data-orig-height="422" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/95b9b9b9ae7be8888bf598fd820d9459/tumblr_inline_nm1vapt3Kj1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="507" data-orig-height="358" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/d202b5b75606491c3ce8254883aba932/tumblr_inline_nm1vbkernZ1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="590" data-orig-height="418" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/700c95bf92bcf111f34f3f3d9fa05fc8/tumblr_inline_nm1vc2y6Xn1qbzv4w_540.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> are the cover story in the new issue #10 of <a href="http://issuu.com/music_and_riots_mag/docs/issue_10" target="_blank">Music & Riots Magazine</a> out today. You can read the whole issue online <a href="http://issuu.com/music_and_riots_mag/docs/issue_10" target="_blank">HERE</a> also has a great 8/10 Album review for Salome on page 84-85. Don’t miss Marriages on tour in Europe starting April 9th at Roadburn Festival then as direct support to <a href="http://wovenhandband.com" target="_blank">Wovenhand</a> as well as a few headline shows of their own including Budapest and in London, UK on May 1st. See ALL <a href="http://marriagesband.com/shows" target="_blank">Marriages dates</a> and pre-order info at their new site. <br><a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriagesband.com</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/36120192015-03-19T11:45:49-07:002023-12-10T10:08:30-08:00An Interview with Marriages own Emma Ruth Rundle<figure data-orig-width="206" data-orig-height="99"><img src="https://36.media.tumblr.com/82cdc380b909e8e593d4e4315392a169/tumblr_inline_nlh307d1pD1rlbw04_500.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><figure data-orig-width="500" data-orig-height="303"><img src="https://41.media.tumblr.com/a501a3731031d18fb568ee7c8fea40ef/tumblr_inline_nlh30kfbvz1rlbw04_500.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p><i>You released your first solo album, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>, last year. What made you want to do this record now? I mean, to put your electric guitar (and more heavy sounds) aside and go do something a little bit more acoustic, yet with a heavy vibe, let’s say?</i></p><p>ERR: To be meticulous – I will point out that I did release another solo album before <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a> called<a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/electric-guitar-one" target="_blank"> Electric Guitar: One</a> which is an ambient/experimental record that features almost no singing at all. Making a solo album of more “traditional” music is something I have wanted to do for a while. I had been writing and recording similar music under the moniker “<a href="http://thenocturnes.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">The Nocturnes</a>,” though that project did feature other musicians and some of their songs. Having had trouble with this group and with my involvement in <a href="http://redsparowes.bandcamp.com/album/the-fear-is-excruciating-but-therein-lies-the-answer" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> and <a href="http://MArriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, I wanted something that was just mine and a venue for this kind of music I write. If you have listened to Some Heavy Ocean you will understand that the material is simply not appropriate for a band or Marriages at all – it’s intimate and highly personal music.</p><!-- more --><p><i>And do you feel more exposed when you’re playing alone, just with your acoustic guitar, instead of having the amps and the band behind? Some artists that did that, like Mike Scheidt and Wino, told me they thought it was something scary, especially on the first concerts.</i></p><p>I absolutely feel exposed – I always feel naked when performing in any setting, but have found that doing it alone is very different. It’s complicated in that, by performing, I am making public the things that are deep in my heart and sharing my personal life and secrets with people in a way that is much more obvious and direct when I’m alone than it is when I’m playing with Marriages. Being alone is also freeing in a way; I don’t have the constraints of having to keep the songs the same at all – the music is unchained and in a sense unrehearsed. Not playing with other musicians (in a live setting) allows for this and the result can be very moving for me.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJ3_WpBfsuFY"><iframe frameborder="0" height="281" id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J3_WpBfsuFY?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="500"></iframe></figure><p><i>How was your writing process for this album? And how long did it take to reunite all these songs?</i></p><p>Writing for Some Heavy Ocean was just like everything – something I just do or did. I will always be writing this kind of music. The time during which these songs were written happened to be fraught with many kinds of personal struggles and drama that would suit any b-rated daytime soap. All of this resulting in a record of songs that I have a hard time with – they are right inside my ribs.</p><p><i>You recently toured with Steven Brodsky, from <a href="http://cavein.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Cave In</a>/<a href="http://mutoidman.com" target="_blank">Mutoid Man</a>, who even played with you in a special video (Living With the Black Dog). How did you decide to do the video – did you already know each other? And any chance of recording something together? </i></p><p>Stephen and I had never met before that tour – Sargent House set it up. I was so happy that we got to play together, as I am a big fan and it turns out he is awesome in every way. We don’t have any plans to record anything together yet, but I would love to do something with him.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhD4QEbXgBCI"><iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hD4QEbXgBCI?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="500"></iframe></figure><p><i>You guys are about to release your first proper full length, Salome. For the first song I’ve listened, “Skin,” I got the sense that maybe your sound is more “open” and crystalline, a little bit more in line with what we can hear on your solo record. Was this a conscious move or just a natural result of your solo record and what you’ve lived and listened to on these last few years?</i></p><p>Thanks for asking and for listening to “Skin.” I don’t think the evolution of Marriages has much to do with my solo work. It’s just been the natural progression of the band and the addition of permanent drummer, Andrew Clinco. The songs on Salome are more structured and vocally focused so I can see why you would ask.</p><p><i>It’s impossible not to note the drums are kind of everywhere on “Skin” (on the best way possible). Is this a new direction for the band (and the record)? Maybe the result of touring with bands/artists like Russian Circles and King Buzzo?</i></p><p>The new drum sound is solely the result of Andrew Clinco’s writing and playing style. He is a very special drummer. He really has his own presence and place in Marriages and has a lot to do with sound now.</p><p><i><b>Listen to the debut track “Skin”<a href="https://soundcloud.com/sargent-house/marriages-skin#t=0:00" target="_blank"> here</a>.</b></i></p><p><i>Speaking of this, how is your writing process with the band? Do you write the melodies and lyrics alone? If so, do you know right away when you’re going to use the song on Marriages or your solo career?</i></p><p>Marriages is a band. For the most part, we write the music together and I usually add the vocals and lyrics later. There are only two songs on the new record that were not written this way. One of which, “Contender,” was written by Andrew. Greg added his parts and I only contributed some small guitar lines and the lyrics. The other song being “Under Will,” which I had written some time ago for a friend. Greg and Andrew do add their own touch to the song.</p><p><i>A great friend of mine saw you in San Francisco (with <a href="http://www.borisheavyrocks.com/" target="_blank">Boris</a>) last year and was really impressed with Marriages, and especially you. What’s your state of mind after playing? And do you have some pre-concert rituals? </i></p><p>Thank you. That was a special tour for me personally – I really felt like the whole band was connected in a special way at that time and that I was able to enter a different space while performing. As a band, we don’t have any rituals, although we have occasionally discussed a group hug before playing. Ha! I can’t speak for Greg or Andrew and how they feel after a show. I always feel differently and it never seems to have much to do with anything specific, other than whether or not I am able to forget myself during the performance. I think I’m often hard on myself, but I’m learning to be better about that.</p><p><b><i>Listen to the title track “Salome” off their new album <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sargent-house/marriages-salome" target="_blank">here.</a></i></b></p><p><i>You were born and raised in LA. Do you think the city has influenced you in a direct way in the music you write? And what bands/artists would you consider to be “kindred spirits” over there?</i></p><p>I was born and raised in LA, but I have traveled and lived elsewhere. I spent a year in New Zealand, for example, but always find myself returning to the city from which I came. It would be nearly impossible to remove myself in a way that would allow me to see how I’ve been affected and shaped by the place I grew up. If anything – I can point to McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, a historically important folk music store; it’s been there for about 55 years now and I started hanging around it when I was 8 years old. I later got my first and only job working on instruments and selling guitars and banjos to all kinds of people. The store is also a school and I was surrounded by the best of the best players – never having real guitar lessons, I gleaned what I could from the greats around me and have cobbled together my own style of playing. The essence of traditional music comes from my time there and will always be at the root of things. That and lots of Smashing Pumpkins, haha. As far as kindred spirits in LA – there are the people I grew up around and played with…especially Troy Zeigler (Field) and Paris Patt (Woolen, The Nocturnes), and of course Greg Burns, who I ended up playing in two bands with. I’ve never been terribly social and met all the aforementioned through my presence at McCabe’s.</p><p><i>Although you’re not a metal singer or guitar player, your bands have a strong connection with this universe, one that’s considered sexist by many. How do you see this? And have you ever had any negative experience?</i></p><p>I love heavy music. The ways bands and scenes connect is something someone could write a paper about, or draw up a big family tree to illustrate the intricacies of connectivity between musicians. I can see how the association works in this case. I have NEVER once felt sexism present in the scene. The world of “heavy music” is one of the friendliest and most loyal I have experienced. The musicians and the listeners are (in my experience) the best people… and I often have the best times when we get paired up with a “heavy” band – Russian Circles for example. The only sexism I tend to experience in my musical life comes unexpectedly, and almost never from a fan or fellow musician. I once feared the “for a girl” mentality I know exists, but I never think of it anymore. I never feel it. There are many incredible women in and out of the heavy music world who can play technical and creative circles around some dudes – not to swoon too much (and I don’t want to play into any sex-based bullshit), but <a href="http://helmsalee.net/" target="_blank">Helms Alee </a>are one of the heaviest and most unique bands I’ve ever heard, two thirds of which are women. Good music is good. Who is playing it doesn’t seem to matter to me or to anyone else watching or listening.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="540" data-orig-height="304" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJnZhbMzG1bA"><iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JnZhbMzG1bA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="500"></iframe></figure><p><i>Please tell me three records that changed your life and why they did it.</i></p><p><i>Siamese Dream</i> – Smashing Pumpkins: why? guitars! Melodies and tones and puberty… It’s influenced my songwriting and guitar playing more than any other single thing. You either get it or you don’t with this band and this record. After that, it becomes hard to prioritize anything else – there is just so much and it’s colored by hormonal changes, heartbreak, discovering sounds– industrial, stoner rock and folk-noise. Is Godflesh or Neil Young more important? I just don’t know. Jeff Buckley or Sleepytime Gorilla Museum? Radiohead or John Cage – can’t make the call.</p><figure class="tmblr-embed" data-provider="youtube" data-orig-width="459" data-orig-height="344" data-url="https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D96I0y3pQlL4"><iframe frameborder="0" height="374" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/96I0y3pQlL4?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque" width="500"></iframe></figure><p><i>And when did you start to sing/play guitar? Do you remember who were your main influences back then? Your voice was already compared to a lot of artists, including since Alanis Morrisette until your labelmate <a href="http://www.chelseawolfe.net/" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>, among others.</i></p><p>I loved Mazzy Star and Nirvana. The first song I ever learned to play and sing was “Ride It On” by Mazzy Star. Here is a good place to interject a comment on sexism: people seem to know so few female singers, yet feel compelled to draw a comparison to someone, anyone. I’ve been compared to almost anyone white, female and active within alt-rock-shoegaze-goth-folk in the last 30 years. It’s ridiculous. My voice is my own and if anything I sound a lot like my sister and father.</p><p><i>What’s your opinion about file sharing? Do you think this is the main reason for the end of independent labels like Hydra Head?</i></p><p>I can’t really say whether or not it’s contributed to the demise of labels – I don’t know the details of Hydra Head’s situation. I’m not very savvy when it comes to file sharing and downloading shit. With Spotify and YouTube now, I don’t know how big this whole “illegally downloading content” problem really is anymore. I want <a href="http://www.sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> to do well and make enough money to stay open and keep taking care of its artists, but personally, if someone is going to rip my record from a friend or download my catalogue from the internet, I don’t really care. If it spreads the music and some of those people end up at a show or are turned on to new music, they end up supporting in the long run.</p><p><i>What are you most proud of in your career?</i></p><p>Not dying at age 27</p><p><i>This is the last one. How do you want to be remembered?</i></p><p>To be remembered at all is unusual enough for anyone. I hope I get a headstone somewhere… maybe in Lone Fir in Portland.</p><figure data-orig-width="600" data-orig-height="399"><img src="https://40.media.tumblr.com/9bd4fa5a54ca03fc5b3a23cf1dc81f4c/tumblr_inline_nlh2z4kzzY1rlbw04_500.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></figure><p> Photo by <a href="http://marriagesband.com/greg-burns" target="_blank">Gregory Burns</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964932015-01-16T12:06:28-08:002017-02-04T10:09:03-08:00Arms I Know So Well video wins MTVU Freshmen // Marriages start tour 1/21<p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/49dd104e5d2ad827b3b302604abb4694/tumblr_inline_niacru7arK1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/9597bbcfbb8bbfad4e79980b4bb0845a/tumblr_inline_niacu9px0v1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BlDCoCcCt1Q?rel=0" width="500"></iframe> “Impressive showing this week for <a href="http://www.mtv.com/artists/emma-ruth-rundle/" title="Emma Ruth Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> as she wins this round of <a href="http://www.mtvu.com/music/emma-ruth-rundle-wins-this-round-of-the-freshmen/" target="_blank">The Freshmen</a>. “Arms I Know So Well” directed by Thomas McMahan will be added into full rotation next week. Congrats to Emma Ruth Rundle and thanks to all the bands and fans that voted.”<br>Song is from the album <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>. <br><br>And don’t miss Emma Ruth Rundle’s band <a href="http://marriagesband.com" target="_blank">Marriages</a> on tour with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Helms_Alee" target="_blank">Helms Alee</a> starting January 21st - See All Marriages dates below</p>
<script src="https://widget.bandsintown.com/javascripts/bit_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p><a class="bit-widget-initializer" href="https://www.bandsintown.com/Marriages" data-artist="Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages Tour Dates</a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964942014-11-20T10:42:18-08:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00ROKLINE: Album Spotlight Emma Ruth Rundle "Some Heavy Ocean"<p><a href="http://www.rokline.com/emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/ece1c0f84e0f204d309b22c176ccf8fc/tumblr_inline_nfcp96ObFZ1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/af099db635bf708588b3ee844ac76b68/tumblr_inline_nfcp9sLJho1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
<p></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964952014-10-22T19:13:12-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00The Seventh Hex Interview: Emma Ruth Rundle <p><a href="http://theseventhhex.com/post/100666179215/emma-ruth-rundle-interview" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/9f1b49aea962a0a96ecda902790d2da2/tumblr_inline_ndvju96pOw1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/9b45173eb40cbc3b800642d45d6a08ad/tumblr_inline_ndvjuhqG4T1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle’s</a> first official solo album, ‘<a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>’, presents a collection of impassioned, cathartic songs, exorcising the ghosts of one of life’s dark detours. Melancholic, but equally hopeful and accessible, the album wears its emotions on its sleeve. We caught up with Emma to discuss her songwriting process, a penchant for visual art and the need to keep evolving…</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Firstly congratulations on such a profound album with ‘Some Heavy Ocean’… Though it was exhausting emotionally and marked by personal struggles, how cathartic and compelling was it to express your convictions and state of mind with this collection of enthralling songs?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Thank you very much. Writing and recording “Some Heavy Ocean” was a trying, yet cathartic experience. As the songs became more fleshed out and instruments other than guitar were added I certainly felt something like a sense of relief.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> It’s been mentioned that you literally moved into <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House’s</a> home studio in Echo Park, sequestering yourself for two months writing and recording, what was the level of focus like during this period?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> This is true - I stayed locked away down there for a bit and woke up each day to work. It was an intense time and the focus was there but that’s not to say there was no experimentation. Each song required its own approach and arrangement. Because there was no deadline and I was working out of the home studio, there was a lot of leeway in how and when we did things. For instance, if I felt that recording vocals for a certain song would be done best at night in an upstairs room, we could wait the day and prepare for that. Recording this record was unlike any other recording experience I’ve had.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold"><!-- more -->TSH:</span></strong> How key was it that this album allowed you to make a statement about a different facet of your musical character that you hope will serve as a platform to continue releasing music in a similar realm?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> It was an important album in that way - I had been releasing music under the guise of a band, “The Nocturnes,” and felt that by releasing ‘Some Heavy Ocean’ under my real name I was setting the stage to continue making similar music while establishing my own career as a solo artist. It was also important for me to be able to tour without a band after the record came out.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Does your crafting process involve ideas you’ve consciously looked to imply or is it a series of organic expressions realised by the simplicity of guitar and voice?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> The songwriting process is more organic. The songs all have meaning and a story to each which the guitar helps to pull out of my head and heart. I almost always start by just playing. The things I play often reflect my mood or the state of my emotional brain - so I guess the stories and music often mirror each other in real time as they manifest.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Was it uplifting to have violinist Andrea Calderon, of Corima on board for the record?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Without question, Andrea is one of the most talented musicians and uplifting people just to be around. Her intuitive playing and singing really made the record special for me. She brings true interest and thoughtfulness with her contributions to everything she does. I count myself very lucky for having had her on board. AND Cormia is MINDBLOWING ha! If you ever get the chance to see them - do not miss it.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Let’s talk about the album. Firstly, ‘Run Forever’… Talk us through structuring this song and at what point in the process did you realise what you were going to do vocally with such enchanting instrumentation?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> ‘Run Forever’ is one of the older songs on the record and actually has the simplest main guitar part- so when you strip away the slide guitars, drums etc. it’s a very basic song. Again, in writing this, the melody and subject matter was ready to come out too. Some of the lyrics and idea in the bridge and intro to the song (Your Card the Sun) were set down during recording.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Tell us about your admiration for the song <span> ‘Living with the Black Dog’</span> - the song holding a lot of emotion because your heart was heavy and this song is the best representation of this…</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> ‘Living with the Black Dog’ was another “no work” song. It just came. It’s a one live take recording of a performance - in other words, I just sat down, the tape machine got turned on and the song was captured then and there. I feel that it’s the most honest in that it is so direct and needed nothing other than the lyrics and guitar to carry the emotion across. I’d like for all songs to be so simple but I guess that’s just not the way it works.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> And of course the meaning behind ‘<span>Living with the Black Dog’</span> is in relation to Winston Churchill’s moods…</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Yes! You’re the first to make the connection. I think it’s a powerful thing to give the illness that troubles your being a name. It allows you to point directly to it and say “it’s you again.” I just happened to think he came up with the most appropriate name to describe the character of what is the Black Dog- It goes back into folklore too and makes for some interesting research. I love myth and legend as a key or guide for naming and identifying states of mind or experience. Marriages explore similar ideas by using the Kitsune for a model of psychological transformation.</p>
<p><span class="bold"><strong>TSH</strong>:</span> In what way is the title track in relation to a visual aspect, with the lyrics creating the visual representation of something very vast and unknown?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> It was a true conjuring in that the title track was actually the scrap of another song I hadn’t liked - I reversed the parts and “heard” the words “guide me to some heavy ocean.” It was with the least amount of purpose but with most subconscious movement that this song and title came to be. It all just manifested toward the close of the recording process.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> You’ve stated that you feel you’re a nervous type of person, do you feel at all vulnerable to know that you can’t hide behind a band and that you’re directly linked to your songs in many ways?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> At the start, yes I did. Stepping away from The Nocturnes was frightening. From now on there is no band name to hide behind so if I hate what I’ve done on ‘Some Heavy Ocean’, I’m forever tied to it. I took comfort in knowing that I had already released “Electric Guitar: One” under my real name and that it was not at all main stream or singer songwriter but instead a collection of improvised soundscapes that might fall more into the world of art or experimental music. This gave me the confidence to just work under my true name as it leaves the door to other genres open. I hope to never be stuck in any one world, as I feel often happens to bands and artists, but would like to create in an uninhibited fashion or act in whatever way is honest. I am just a person making noise - sometimes its folk sometimes it’s not.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span> </strong>With the airy ambiance and confessional poetry your songs take on, what aspects do you feel are most integral to manifest themselves?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Staying true to the heart. I hope to never sit down and study how a pop song’s success is structured.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Do you tend to at times focus more on harmony and controlling your voice when your material is taking shape?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> It’s not something I’ve thought about until recently and after touring more with the solo work. There are some very quiet and delicate moments, which I can only sing when remaining still and focused. This is sometimes hard to do live when you’re tired and travelling from one bar or venue to the next. I am not a trained singer. I’ve intentionally focused on writing louder, more robust vocal parts for the upcoming Marriages record knowing that I will have to sing powerfully in order to cut through the band and make an impact. With the solo stuff it’s still just whatever comes naturally.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> What kind of motivations and outlook do you take on for the live translation of your music?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Not playing with a band right now allows me to take great liberties with the songs and I find that I can meet them, like new people, every night. There is no one I have to keep in time with or worry about so I’m free to do as I please and this is what I like about playing this record live. I do love to play with other musicians and it’s not an experience that can be replaced but the freedom to explore is how I am approaching this material.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> How gratifying is to have someone like <a href="http://www.ravishly.com/ladies-we-love/cathy-pellow-founder/ceo-sargent-house-music-management/label" target="_blank">Cathy Pellow</a> on board – an individual who goes above and beyond to support you and push you to stand on your own…</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma: </span>I feel that she has pushed me especially to stop hiding behind things. She lives life and speaks her mind and won’t let anyone get away with less than they are capable of. She sees who and what artists are, what they can do and she demands them to live up to that. I would have long faded into the background of a band had she not come up behind me with all of her support. She really is like family to me and I owe her everything.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> How do you like to use the downtime whilst on tour?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma: </span>Each tour I’ve been on has been different - downtime depends on how many people there are, how long the drives are, who does what etc… In Red Sparowes I used van time to record EG1 - in an ideal world I would always have time like that. In more recent tours, there has not been so much real downtime or at least not enough to really focus on much, so I make the occasional drawing or painting and always bring art supplies.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Tell us about your penchant for painting, I understand you’re doing more oil paintings now, as well as working on a painting of Joan of Arc…</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Visual art is a compulsion for me. I would never claim to be good at it or to know what I’m doing, technically speaking. When I was little I really wanted to be a visual artist but never made it to any classes etc. So it’s just something I do. The series of oil paintings you’re referring to were an experiment in that I was trying to use diluted oil on raw canvas to create a watercolour effect. I’m not sure if it was a success but the expression of love between two people was captured in the three paintings and I’m happy and a bit attached to them ha. My Joan is mostly done but I want to learn about using metallic paints before finishing it. I hope to create something like those Greek orthodox icons - very two-dimensional figures surrounded by gold. I love religious art.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Also the violent Korean movie ‘I Saw the Devil’ was so good you watched it twice…</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> I’m big on serial killers and Asian horror… what can I say…</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> Outside of music, how do you like to unwind?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> Not proudly - a lot of beer and cigarettes.</p>
<p><strong><span class="bold">TSH:</span></strong> What sort of sustainability do you look to maintain and stay true to heading forward?</p>
<p class="answer"><span class="bold">Emma:</span> I hope to keep evolving and making things without being too worried about how or what. In the current climate there are no guarantees at all. The thing that has brought me to where I am now has been to never give up or stop. This is all I know and outside of making things, I’ve only ever worked with instruments. This is my life and I can only keep living.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964962014-09-10T11:12:00-07:002017-02-04T10:09:04-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle to join TTNG and Mylets on the Sargent House N. American Fall Tour 2014<p><span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank"><strong><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/82aac5d099aa88575289e4e89aaadf8f/tumblr_inline_nbp6cxUhfW1ry933h.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></strong></a></span><span class="userContent"><a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank"><strong><br></strong>Sargent House</a> is excited to announce the second annual Fall Tour lineup for 2014 featuring <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/TTNG" target="_blank">TTNG</a> in the headline slot with direct support to be traded off each night between <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mylets" target="_blank">Mylets</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle.</a> So be sure to turn up on time so you don’t miss any of these three great acts. The tour begins on October 20th in Santa Ana, CA and will canvas North America, with stops in Montreal and Toronto, going full circle and ending <span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br><br><a href="https://www.bandsintown.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">SEE ALL EMMA RUTH RUNDLES SHOW DATES & DETAILS HERE </a><br></span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><strong><!-- more -->EMMA RUTH RUNDLE LIVE 2014</strong><br>9/23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Los Globos w/ WIFE <strong> <br></strong></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><strong>SARGENT HOUSE FALL 2014 TOUR</strong><br><strong>w/ TTNG, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & MYLETS</strong> <br>Oct 20 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Constellation Room <br> Oct 21 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock Live <br>Oct 22 - El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls <br> Oct 23 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada <span class="text_exposed_show"><br> Oct 24 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 <br> Oct 27 - Ybor City, FL @ Crowbar <br> Oct 29 - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth <br> Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl <br> Nov 02 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church <br> Nov 03 - Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel <br> Nov 04 - New York City, NY @ The Studio at Webster Hall<br> Nov 05 - Hamden, CT @ The Space <br> Nov 06 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (Downstairs) <br> Nov 07 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz (formerly Il Motore) <br> Nov 08 - Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace <br> Nov 10 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks<br> Nov 11 - Grand Rapids, MI@ Pyramid Scheme <br> Nov 12 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean <br> Nov 13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Demo <br> Nov 14 - Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall<br> Nov 15 - Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater <br> Nov 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Music Garage<br> Nov 18 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project <br> Nov 19 - Portland, OR @ Slabtown <br> Nov 20 - San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside <br> Nov 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (Early Show)<br><br><br><br></span></span></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964972014-08-15T10:07:37-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00NPR Premiere: Emma Ruth Rundle Video for "Arms I Know So Well"<p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/487d6db9bda9cf54d4a526e23c79013b/tumblr_inline_nacxxe0UfY1ryyjn7.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/ded1ba7fdb4ba08a92622f30d62a30da/tumblr_inline_nacxyp8BAN1ryyjn7.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
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<p>This is debut music from the ethereal performer <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>. The video for “<a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Arms I Know So Well</a>" is a beautiful portrayal of solitude and living with one’s self, directed by <a href="http://thomasmcmahan.tv/" target="_blank">Thomas McMahan</a>. “Arms I Know So Well” is from her first album, called <em><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.hellomerch.com" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>.</em> Currently, she is on tour with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Boris" target="_blank">Boris</a> in her other project, a rock band called <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>.<br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/marriages/shows" target="_blank">See All Marriages Tour dates </a><br>Aug 16 - Seattle, Wash. @ The Crocodile<br>Aug 17 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Rickshaw Theatre<br>Aug 18 - Portland, Ore. @ Doug Fir Lounge<br>Aug 20 - San Francisco, Calif. @ The Independent<br>Aug 21 - Santa Cruz, Calif. @ The Catalyst Atrium<br>Aug 22 - San Luis Obispo, Calif. @ SLO Brew</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964982014-07-23T10:24:16-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Live Video session "Living With The Black Dog"<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ndKcrdTwJac?rel=0" width="500"></iframe> Thanks to the fine people at <a href="http://www.littleelephantlive.com/%20" target="_blank">Little Elephant</a> for filming this live session with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> on her tour stop in Ohio. This clip is the first of four of the songs she performed, so stay tuned for more. This track is called “Living With The Black Dog” and is on her new album “<a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>”. <br><br><a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows/" target="_blank">Don’t miss Emma Ruth Rundle on tour now with King Buzzo. - See All ERR Dates</a> <br><br>Then in August, don’t miss Emma in her band <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> on tour with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Boris" target="_blank">Boris </a>- <a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/marriages/shows" target="_blank">see all Marriages dates HERE</a>.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34964992014-07-11T11:38:00-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Washington City Paper Show Pick Feature: Emma Ruth Rundle at DC9 July 16th <p><a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46069/emma-ruth-rundle-at-dc9-wednesday-july-16/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/ff2abef7290c46601b832d88c1a1b259/tumblr_inline_n8k8zqrsbe1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/0c5d0baf7e1502db6983e9299473ff15/tumblr_inline_n8k8zxqoYX1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/83fa85a0115950aaabd9795c36eb666a/tumblr_inline_n8k90dp7Zq1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p>On her debut solo album, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"><em>Some Heavy Ocean</em></a>, Los Angeles-based <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> puts away her past life as a guitarist for post-rock band <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> while creating a sound that’s also different from her current band, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>. Noticeably gone are the hyper-thematic instrumentals of her two previous projects; in their place are lightly layered but powerful vocals that sound equally dramatic. It seems that band life might have hindered Rundle’s creativity: From the eerie vocal loops of the title track all the way to the grunge-ballad closer, “Living With The Black Dog,” Rundle’s solo debut reveals an expansive, previously unseen range. The gloomy sounds cast a shadow over the album—at her live show, expect some darkness. <em>Emma Ruth Rundle performs with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SteveBrodsky.official?fref=ts" target="_blank">Stephen Brodsky</a> at 9 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $10. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com</em>.<br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows" target="_blank">Don’t miss EMMA RUTH RUNDLE On tour now - see all dates HERE</a></p>
<p></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965002014-07-10T11:59:00-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00BOXX Magazine Live Show Review: Emma Ruth Rundle in Chicago<p><a href="http://boxxmagazine.com/2014/07/emma-ruth-rundle-june-29-2014-chicago/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/f267b2301f07fda25099c83174346237/tumblr_inline_n8k9rdTAWQ1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p>An <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> show tests the boundaries of silence. You stand motionless because you want to soak in every delicate splinter of guitar and, through the muddled grays of her echoey voice, miraculously piece together fragments of words. But that feeling of needing to remain still, keeping an unwavering focus on her black frame goes beyond a choice. It’s a magnetic force, and you can’t break hold.</p>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"><em>Some Heavy Ocean</em></a>, released May 20 on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>, is L.A.-based Rundle’s breakaway project. She’s gathered years of noisy playtime with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> and The Nocturnes, proving herself as a fearlessly talented guitarist. This year’s solo album captures this talent in a whole new vein but also sheds light on her ethereal vocal qualities that span from gentle ripples to thunderous cliff side waves in a matter of seconds. Each song, even more pronounced in a live setting, takes a surprising turn and Rundle delivered them poker faced on stage. Her gaze remained downwardly transfixed during almost the entire set at Wicker Park’s intimate upstairs venue Subterranean, making only the most sporadic eye contact with the audience before her. It began and ended without frills and devoid of banter. Rundle was all business, but it felt right.</p>
<p><!-- more -->“If we both get caught, we both run forever” she sang with a pained beauty on “Run Forever.” She opened with hit “Shadows of My Name,” and it somehow contained more magic when performed live than recorded. Partway through the performance, Rundle asked us if we could hear the guitar over the buzzing feedback, to which we responded with a resounding “yes.” A restless energy bound each song together,and they often flowed into one another without pause. Rundle didn’t need any fanfare or acknowledgement that we were all enamored. A visual artist as well, some of Rundle’s dark pieces were displayed at the merch table being manned by her sister.</p>
<p>“I’m way more afraid of you than you are of me, so you can come closer,” Rundle said in a breathy plea before closing out with “Arms I Know So Well” and “Living With a Black Dog.” It was one of the first and final times she spoke that night, preceded by only one smile: “Thank you for being quiet.”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://artistdata.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows" target="_blank">Catch Emma Ruth Rundle on tour now</a><br></strong></p>
<p></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965012014-06-17T18:37:00-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle Adds her own headline shows with some great friends joining her <p><span class="userContent"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/6149af15b0afcff5156b3c1557be06c3/tumblr_inline_n7cbuhaZTk1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=269148636562109" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle </a>will be heading out on a US tour soon as direct support to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/King-Buzzo/110720485615402" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=110720485615402" target="_blank">King Buzzo</a> of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=267942240938" target="_blank">(the) Melvins</a> both artists are<span class="text_exposed_show"> touring in support of their new solo acoustic albums. A few additional headline shows have been added along the way and on the off dates from the King Buzzo tour. Joining her on those shows are new label mates <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Dave_Davison" target="_blank">Dave Davison</a> (<a href="http://sargenthouse.com/maps_and_atlases" target="_blank">Maps & Atlases</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/castspells?fref=ts" target="_blank">Cast Spells</a>) in Chicago and then Stephen Brodsky (<a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Mutoid_Man" target="_blank">Mutoid Man</a>, Cave In) for the NY, Philadelphia and DC Shows. Also joining them on the NY and Philly shows will be Jason Bartell of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Fang_island" target="_blank">Fang Island</a> debuting his own solo stuff.<em> (Full list of all dates below)</em> <br><br>Immediately following her solo tour Emma will join her band <a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/marriages/shows" target="_blank">Marriages for tour dates</a> with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/borisheavyrocks?fref=ts" target="_blank">BORIS</a> in August. Following that Emma will head to Europe to make her live debut in Dublin, Ireland on August 27th at the <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House </a> show with label mates: <span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/russiancirclesmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=115326420491" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=25571011322" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/teramelosmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=125824375317" target="_blank">Tera Melos</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mylets" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=172214132822960" target="_blank">Mylets</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nospillblood" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=218303461588387" target="_blank">No Spill Blood</a>.</span></span><br><br><a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows/" target="_blank"><strong> SEE ALL EMMA RUTH RUNDLE TOUR DETAILS HERE:</strong> </a><br><br><strong> <!-- more -->EMMA RUTH RUNDLE LIVE 2014</strong> <br>Jun 25 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge <br> Jun 28 - Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall **<br>Jun 29 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean #<br> Jun 30 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme **<br> Jul 01 - Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar **<br> Jul 02 - Hamtramck, MI @ Small’s Bar **<br> Jul 03 - Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop **<br> Jul 05 - Syracuse, NY @ The Westcott Theater **<br> Jul 06 - South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground **<br> Jul 07 - Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall **<br> Jul 09 - Dover, NH @ Dover Brick House **<br>Jul 12 - Hamden, CT @ The Outer Space **<br>Jul 13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus +++<br>Jul 15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Bourbon & Branch +++<br>Jul 16 - Washington DC @ DC9 ++<br> Jul 18 - Charlottesville, VA (US) @ The Southern **<br> Jul 19 - Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theatre **<br> Jul 20 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle **<br> Jul 22 - Atlanta, GA @ The Basement **<br> Jul 23 - Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree **<br> Jul 26 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live **<br> Jul 27 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 **<br> Jul 28 - San Antonio, TX @ Limelight **<br> Jul 30 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress **<br> Jul 31 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s **<br><br>**w/ King Buzzo <br>+++ w/ Steve Brodsky <br><br><strong> MARRIAGES LIVE 2014<br></strong>Aug 16 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile # ^<br>Aug 17 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre # ^<br>Aug 18 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge # ^<br>Aug 20 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent #<br>Aug 21 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium # <br>Aug 22 San Luis Obispo @ SLO Brew #<br># w/ <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Boris" target="_blank">Boris</a> <br>^ w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-Musicians-of-Bukkake/134327659950686" target="_blank">Master Musicians of Bukkake </a><br></span></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><strong>Aug 27 </strong>- Dublin, (IE) @ Button Factory - <a href="http://sargenthouseeurope.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/sargent-house-digital-compilation-w-early-bird-guest-list-to-dublin-label-show" target="_blank">Sargent House Show</a><br> w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/russiancirclesmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=115326420491" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=25571011322" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/teramelosmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=125824375317" target="_blank">Tera Melos</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle?fref=ts" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mylets" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=172214132822960" target="_blank">Mylets</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nospillblood" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=218303461588387" target="_blank">No Spill Blood</a>.</span></span></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965022014-06-13T13:12:29-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Metal Assault: Live Review & Photos of Emma Ruth Rundle at Amoeba Hollywood<div>
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<p><strong>June 12th 2014, Amoeba Music, Hollywood CA: </strong>Primarily known as a member of rock groups <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> and <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> has started her own solo career, and released her debut album ‘<a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>’ via <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> on May 20th. While she prepares to embark on a <a href="http://artistdata.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows" target="_blank">run of US dates in support of King Buzzo</a>, who played a fantastic LA show himself the night before at the Echo (check out my coverage of that show <strong><a href="http://metalassault.com/gig_reviews/2014/06/12/king-buzzo-rocks-the-echo-with-solo-acoustic-set" target="_blank">here</a></strong>), Emma Ruth Rundle did a short 30-minute free in-store performance at Amoeba Music in the heart of Hollywood yesterday evening. Having witnessed her musical talents in Marriages a couple of times in the recent past, I was looking forward to seeing how she handles herself as a solo performer.<span id="more-3986"></span></p>
<p>She presented material from ‘Some Heavy Ocean’ along with a couple of other tunes. Despite the album being out and about for a good three weeks now, this was my very first listen of any and all of its tunes. She started the set here with ‘Shadows Of My Name’ off of this album, a song that’s still stuck in my head as a result of its eerie atmospheres and expressive vocals, and this is in spite of the fact that I attended a whole another concert last night immediately after this gig. As she progressed through the set, song by song she succeeded in drawing more and more people at the store nearer to the stage, including many that were here merely to shop and were completely unaware of the gig prior to its start.</p>
<p><!-- more -->To go along with greatly emotive vocals that captured this audience’s imagination, Emma produced exquisite sounds through her acoustic guitars and an array of effects on her pedal-board, specially from the third song onwards when the guitar volume was cranked up. The overall sound quality on this Amoeba stage was sufficient and apt to assist Emma bring her tunes to life.</p>
<p>For those familiar with the bands she’s played in, this gig presented her in avery different light, and it was a true exhibition of her as a singer, songwriter and performer. There is no greater test for a musician than as a solo act, for there is nothing to hide behind, and Emma Ruth Rundle certainly excels in this newfound aspect of her musicianship. ‘Some Heavy Ocean’ is, by all means, a fine slab of folky acoustic guitar-driven psychedelic rock, both in its studio-recorded form, and based on this performance, in the live setting as well.</p>
<strong><a href="http://metalassault.com/gig_reviews/2014/06/13/emma-ruth-rundle-plays-in-store-gig-at-amoeba-hollywood/" target="_blank">Review & photos by Andrew Bansal - to see all pictures go HERE<br></a></strong><a href="http://metalassault.com/gig_reviews/2014/06/13/emma-ruth-rundle-plays-in-store-gig-at-amoeba-hollywood/" target="_blank"><br></a><a href="http://artistdata.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows" target="_blank"><strong>See ALL Emma Ruth Rundle Tour Dates & Details HERE</strong></a>
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<p><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle 2014</strong><br> Jun 25 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge<br> Jun 28 - Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall *<br> June 29 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean ^<br> Jun 30 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme *<br> Jul 01 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar *<br> Jul 02 – Hamtramck, MI @ Small’s Bar *<br> Jul 03 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop *<br> Jul 05 – Syracuse, NY @ The Westcott Theater *<br> Jul 06 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground *<br> Jul 07 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall *<br> Jul 09 – Dover, NH @ Dover Brick House *<br> Jul 12 – Hamden, CT @ Ballroom at Outerspace *<br> Jul 13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus ^*<br> Jul 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Bourbon & Branch ^*<br> Jul 16 – Washington, DC @ DC9 ^*<br> Jul 18 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern *<br> Jul 19 – Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theatre *<br> Jul 20 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *<br> Jul 22 – Atlanta, GA @ The Basement *<br> Jul 23 – Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree *<br> Jul 26 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live *<br> Jul 27 – Austin, TX @ Red 7 *<br> Jul 28 – San Antonio, TX @ Limelight *<br> Jul 30 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress *<br> Jul 31 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace<br> Aug 27 – Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory – Sargent House Label show w/ Russian Circles, And So I Watch You From Afar, Tera Melos, Mylets & No Spill Blood.<br><br>* Supporting King Buzzo<br> ^ w/ Dave Davison (Maps & Atlases)<br> ^* w/ Stephen Brodsky (Mutoid Man)</p>
<p><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle In Marriages on tour:</strong><br> Aug 16 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile # ^<br> Aug 17 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre # ^<br> Aug 18 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge # ^<br> Aug 20 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent #<br> Aug 21 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium #<br> Aug 22 - San Luis Obispo @ SLO Brew #<br> # w/ Boris<br> ^ w/ Master Musicians of Bukkake</p>
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</div>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965032014-06-03T11:41:24-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Amazing Radio Audio Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle<p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/1a12c4d43558f32aeab39f70a9a0e47b/tumblr_inline_n6ltmwv28i1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><a href="http://amazingradio.com/home/interview-emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/365e31e923e22bd2e6016d5286421f50/tumblr_inline_n6ltnrssom1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://amazingradio.com/home/interview-emma-ruth-rundle" target="_blank">Click above to Hear the Interview with Emma Ruth Rundle and Dani Charlton on Amazing Radio </a></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965042014-05-30T16:07:04-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Echoes And Dust Interview: Emma Ruth Rundle<p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/d9dac99dd627d055a5350807f9786e3e/tumblr_inline_n6esg7CEYN1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/5407f13de838511bc909ddcee7f35fda/tumblr_inline_n6esgt4wMs1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/0ee7ecad95280b0309a06a2137c4438d/tumblr_inline_n6esh3AYMz1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
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<p><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank"><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle</strong></a> is an exceptional musician and singer; already having releases as <strong>The Nocturnes</strong> and as a member of Instrumental giants <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank"><strong>Red Sparowes</strong></a>, not to mention the sublime <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank"><strong>Marriages</strong></a>.</p>
<p>2014 sees her name take a more prominent billing, with her first official solo album released on perennial E&D favourite label <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank"><strong>Sargent House</strong></a>. I caught up with her to discuss.<br><br><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141252469&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe><br>Listen/purchase: <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/some-heavy-ocean" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean by Emma Ruth Rundle</a></p>
<p>(((O))): Emma, many thanks for taking time out to speak with us. To gain some background, can you tell us when you first began writing and playing music and who or what influenced you to do so?</p>
<p><!-- more -->ERR: Thanks for taking interest in my music and story. Both my parents play music, not with any mainstream success but nonetheless I grew up around a lot of it and quite a variety at that. I always banged away in my father’s studio and on his piano, like most kids did. At 8 years old, I was gifted my first instrument, a Celtic harp which came from the legendary folk epicentre that is McCabe’s guitar shop in Santa Monica … I spent a lot of time hanging out there and was eventually hired. I was immersed in folk and old music for a large part of my life as a result. Not to say I didn’t get into everything else- just that folk is close to the heart and my musical beginnings.</p>
<p>(((O))): You previously released music with The Nocturnes, Red Sparowes and also Marriages. What influenced the decision to release music under your own name now?</p>
<p>ERR: I wanted to step away from behind a band or the name ‘the nocturnes’ for my own compositions. It was just time to do so. I’ve spent a lot of time hiding or giving myself to other projects and this was a good thing as it afforded me an incubatory period to grow a little more comfortable releasing and playing music in front of others. I had released an ambient guitar record (Electric Guitar One) as Emma Ruth Rundle but it took more time for me to feel comfortable sharing these more structured and traditional efforts, like what is <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em>, as such.</p>
<p>(((O))): <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em> seems to have been written / recorded after you encountered some personal turmoil in the last few years. Is there an element of the album being cathartic?</p>
<p>ERR: This is true. The album is cathartic I suppose. Writing the songs was; although this is no detour from the norm for me. The music gives this aspect of my life and self a place to exist.</p>
<p>(((O))): A lot of people find listening to music almost therapeutic or as a release (<a href="http://echoesanddust.com/musical-therapy/" target="_blank">this site recently had a series of articles dedicated to this</a>). Is there an artist or any music in particular that you turn to in this way?</p>
<p>ERR: I was going to say in my response to your last question that I find more catharsis in listening to the music of others. There are so many artists I’ve turned to for this over the years. Some artists I listen to for cathartic therapy: Jesu, Sun Kil Moon, Stars of the Lid.</p>
<p>(((O))): When I listen to <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em>, and being Irish, I keep getting a sense of a Celtic influence. Not in direct musical terms but maybe a brooding Sinead O’Connor feel. Have you any influences or ancestry that can explain it.</p>
<p>ERR: Thank you. I take that as a huge compliment. I’ve had people ask that before. I can only attribute it to my exposure to Celtic and folk music as a kid. The Celtic harp is a dead giveaway. I’m a redhead and always wanted to believe I came from Ireland but my blood is English and relatives are deeply American and go back to the first Brits who made it over to the states. Maybe all the music is passed in the blood. I’d like to think so.</p>
<p>(((O))): I have loved your voice since the first time I heard it (on Marriages’ debut). I find it very distinctive but also incorporating different styles. Has this helped you shift between heavier guitar based music and the folk tinged solo stuff?</p>
<p>ERR: Thanks again. I feel that I have to sing in a way that makes sense for the song in Marriages. The solo stuff is a bit more unhinged and just coming out of me - where Marriages is a tempered effort to serve the song; more as an instrument than a focal point.</p>
<p>(((O))): The themes on the album can be described as dark but there’s a sense of hope there also. Is this a reflection of yourself; are you a ‘glass half full’ person generally?</p>
<p>ERR: I’m a bi-polar bear. Extremes in all directions and constant shift in view and feeling. The record is hopeful at times and some of the songs are absolutely about forgiveness and overcoming. The references to lying in salt, a purifying element that protects from demons, this is a theme that does run through the record. But many of the songs do describe moments or relationships that are simply doomed or times without resolve. So.. Yes? And no? That’s all underneath. On a surface level I hope I’m not too serious and I try not to take myself too seriously.</p>
<p>(((O))): The song ‘Oh Sarah’ is not only one of the most beautiful things I’ve heard but touching that it is written for your sister. How did the song come about?</p>
<p>ERR: Thank you. That song was the first one that I knew was for this record. The record started out being for her from start to finish but it ended up being about both of us. I wrote it in an empty house on a visit to see her up in Portland, my second home. I want to keep her personal stuff safe but Sarah and I have a bond that no one can understand. We’ve been through so much together on the verge of pure horror. Holding hands and looking into the void we share. She’s the only one who understands and I think she feels the same about me.</p>
<p>(((O))): <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/" target="_blank">Sargent Hous</a>e seems to be a hugely supportive label, not just musically but on a personal level. How important has this been to you?</p>
<p>ERR: THE most important thing. I’ve said this in another interview but Cathy has gone above and beyond to support me in my darkest hour as well as push me to stand on my own.</p>
<p>She puts her artists first and works incredibly hard for them. She’s a whirlwind of a powerful and unique woman. She’s treated me like family. I owe her big time.</p>
<p>(((O))): I think of Cathy Pellow (Sargent House CEO) sometimes of being like a film director in the vein of a Scorsese. All the artists being part of a film’s cast, often recurring or in a cameo role, and everyone has to be on the same page. If this was the case who from cinema would you’re character be most like?</p>
<p>ERR: Wow. I’m not sure if I understand this question! Well if could be anyone I’d be like Bruce Willis, in any role as he’s a badass, but I’m probably more like the scary homeless person behind the Denny’s in Mulholland Drive.</p>
<p>(((O))): The first track that was released from <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em> - ‘Arms I know So Well’, rendered me speechless. It’s an incredibly emotional song. The lyric “Deliver me from all the evil, I’ve done to myself” is extremely powerful. It sounds very personal but is there more you can tell us about it?</p>
<p>ERR: I’m glad it translated. It is personal and there is no hidden meaning behind that lyric. It’s been a long road and I’ve helped myself into some bad shit. It’s hard to stop one’s self from becoming what your formative life has directed you to become. I’m hoping I can find my way.</p>
<p>(((O))): As well as music you paint and have a number of art prints available to buy online. Is art something you derive as much pleasure from as music, and who or what influences you?</p>
<p>ERR: Thanks for noticing. Yes I paint and draw and doodle or make objects; just whatever I’m compelled to do. I wanted to be an artist ‘when I grow up’ more than a musician. I never took classes or pursued it in a formal way though.</p>
<p>I go between music and my art. It’s like having two lovers which can keep things stimulating but can also mean twice the fighting. If I should ever find the money and time, I would like to study it in a traditional way.</p>
<p>(((O))): It looks to be very busy time for yourself, as well as <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em> the second Marriages album is scheduled this year. How far into recording is it and can you tell us anything about it?</p>
<p>ERR: It’s been very busy, at least for what I can tolerate which is good. The second Marriages release is coming along. We are finishing it up right now and all the artwork and songs are in order. I can tell you that it’s different than Kitsune in that we approached the music with the intent to write ‘songs’ as in music with a focus on lyrics and singing vs our older approach which was a Red Sparowes hangover imploring us to write long, unbroken music all flowing together with vocals as an afterthought. The addition of Andrew Clinco on drums has changed the game as well. Being a songwriter himself and multi-instrumentalist he has been able to speed the writing process and shape the sound with Greg and I.</p>
<p>(((O))): With Marriages is the writing and direction shared equally and do you approach it with a different mindset?</p>
<p>ERR: Some of my previous answer applies here… We share things equally or at least are very democratic about how we work and we all have vastly different influences as well as approaches to writing. That’s why I like Marriages. We set out to be a band but were so different from one another that the music we needed up making was hard to place in any one genre.</p>
<p>(((O))): Sargent House recently announced a huge showcase gig in Dublin featuring you, Russian Circles and ASIWYFA and many more. Is there a possibility of you touring extensively through Europe and the UK; either with Marriages or solo (or both!)?</p>
<p>ERR: I can only hope so! Can’t wait to do a whole EU tour with either project but I’m very excited to return to Ireland. I’ve been several times, stayed in Galway for a while, ventured around a bit and made my pilgrimage to the statue of Phil Lynott- I hope he will remember me. I look forward to seeing my SH brothers over there above all!</p>
<p>(((O))): Thanks for talking to us, is there anything you would like to add?</p>
<p>ERR: No I think that’s all. Thanks for your time and thoughtful collection of questions.</p>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank"><em>Some Heavy Ocean</em></a> is available now through Sargent House. Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/emmaruthrundle" target="_blank">Emma</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/sargenthouse" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> online to keep updated with touring, and further releases.<br><br><a href="http://echoesanddust.com/2014/05/interview-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">Interview by Phil Johnston for Echoes And Dust</a></p>
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<p></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965052014-05-30T12:15:00-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Emma Ruth Rundle announces US Tour with King Buzzo and Ireland Live Debut <p><span class="userContent"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/e931f27c3b0f7fc3b703d67324064f9a/tumblr_inline_n5xuaxlNuF1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=269148636562109" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle’s</a> “<a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>" debut solo album is now available everywhere on <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.hellomerch.com" target="_blank">Vinyl, CD</a> and <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Digital</a>, Spotify etc. <br><br>What better way to celebrate than to also announce her upcoming tour with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/King-Buzzo/110720485615402" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=110720485615402" target="_blank">King Buzzo</a> of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/melvinsarmy" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=267942240938" target="_blank">(the) Melvins</a> who will be<span class="text_exposed_show"> touring in support of his new solo acoustic album. After her tour with Buzz ends she will join her other band <a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/marriages/shows" target="_blank">Marriages for tour dates</a> with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/borisheavyrocks?fref=ts" target="_blank">BORIS</a> in August. Then Emma will head to Europe to make her live debut in Dublin, Ireland on August 27th at the <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House </a> show with label mates: <span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/russiancirclesmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=115326420491" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=25571011322" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/teramelosmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=125824375317" target="_blank">Tera Melos</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mylets" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=172214132822960" target="_blank">Mylets</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nospillblood" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=218303461588387" target="_blank">No Spill Blood</a>.</span></span><br><br><a href="http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows/" target="_blank"> SEE ALL EMMA RUTH RUNDLE TOUR DETAILS HERE: </a><br><br><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/072b166a0d645e2d0e2ce024f29ee38b/tumblr_inline_n5xue3sktc1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><br><strong>King Buzzo & Emma Ruth Rundle Tour 2014</strong><br> Jun 28 - Milwaukee, WI (US) Shank Hall<br> Jun 30 - Grand Rapids, MI (US) @ The Pyramid Scheme <br> Jul 01 - Columbus, OH (US) @ A&R Music Bar <br> Jul 02 - Hamtramck, MI (US) @ Small’s Bar<br> Jul 03 - Cleveland Heights, OH (US) @ Grog Shop <br> Jul 05 - Syracuse, NY (US) @ The Westcott Theater <br> Jul 06 - South Burlington, VT (US) @ Higher Ground <br> Jul 07 - Portland, ME (US) @ Port City Music Hall <br> Jul 09 - Dover, NH (US) @ Dover Brick House <br>Jul 12 - Hamden, CT (US) @ The Outer Space <br> Jul 18 - Charlottesville, VA (US) @ The Southern <br> Jul 19 - Charlotte, NC (US) @ Visulite Theatre <br> Jul 20 - Carrboro, NC (US) @ Cat’s Cradle <br> Jul 22 - Atlanta, GA (US) @ The Basement <br> Jul 23 - Birmingham, AL (US) @ The Bottletree <br> Jul 26 - Houston, TX (US) @ Warehouse Live <br> Jul 27 - Austin, TX (US) @ Red 7 <br> Jul 28 - San Antonio, TX (US) @ Limelight<br> Jul 30 - Tucson, AZ (US) @ Club Congress <br> Jul 31 - Pioneertown, CA (US) @ Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace <br><br><br><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/0db2ed53c1eab5c7a2e8719a2f7f5d74/tumblr_inline_n5xuky5rI31qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></span></span></p>
<p><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Aug 27, 2014 - Dublin, (IE) @ Button Factory - Sargent House Show<br> w/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/russiancirclesmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=115326420491" target="_blank">Russian Circles</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=25571011322" target="_blank">And So I Watch You From Afar</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/teramelosmusic" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=125824375317" target="_blank">Tera Melos</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/emmaruthrundle?fref=ts" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mylets" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=172214132822960" target="_blank">Mylets</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nospillblood" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=218303461588387" target="_blank">No Spill Blood</a>.</span></span></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965062014-05-27T18:15:21-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Free In-Store performance on June 12th at Amoeba Records Hollywood <p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/cfec8b6bac20f8b20b728bda6444f3fa/tumblr_inline_n69f2igrAW1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/d6f8436f6ea3a6771a9198e5663cc692/tumblr_inline_n69f38MvcO1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/15aba2f880dbe17e356ac9bb0868d6a6/tumblr_inline_n69f41Zqrz1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p>Los Angeles save the date: <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> will be performing at a FREE / all ages & open to the public in store at the <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/upcoming/detail-2980/" target="_blank">Amoeba Music Store</a> located at 6400 Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, CA on June 12th starting promptly at 6:00pm. Then starting June 28th Emma Ruth Rundle will be on tour with King Buzzo of the Melvins!! <br><br><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/upcoming/detail-2980/" target="_blank">SEE AMOEBA IN STORE DETAILS HERE </a><br><br><a href="http://artistdata.com/emma-ruth-rundle/shows" target="_blank">SEE ALL EMMA RUTH RUNDLE TOUR DATES HERE. </a><br><br></p>
<p></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965072014-05-27T14:01:00-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00Vents Magazine Feature Interview: Emma Ruth Rundle <p><a href="http://ventsmagazine.com/magazine/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/d5e4cd10d85ef72a29d790d10c90f2c5/tumblr_inline_n693qhuTZF1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p>Interview with <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle </a>and Vents Magazine Issue #35 is now out to see the <a href="http://ventsmagazine.com/magazine/" target="_blank">full issue click HERE</a>. Interview is on Page 17.</p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965082014-05-23T13:51:15-07:002015-01-30T16:56:47-08:00
You learn something new every day, so they say. Today I learned that Emma Ruth Rundle is a member...<p><a href="http://echoesanddust.com/2014/05/emma-ruth-rundle-some-heavy-ocean/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/61379191b5c4ce543cd5f5d1921eb317/tumblr_inline_n61oe6txrt1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/1c51ba6d0bf5a1d443b4509d2aa13b77/tumblr_inline_n61oef5UoX1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p>You learn something new every day, so they say. Today I learned that <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank"><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle</strong></a> is a member of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a>, a band who I’ve been listening to for some years, originally oblivious to any connection to <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>, the label bringing us this continuous lineage of outstanding music.</p>
<p><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"><em>Some Heavy Ocean</em></a> is Emma’s debut solo album and it must surely rate as one of the most assured and remarkable debut albums to be released in years. Clearly a very prolific and capable musician, Emma is also a member of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, one of the few acts on the Sargent House roster I have yet to engage and I must correct that forthwith.</p>
<p><!-- more -->Beginning with a brief intro/title track ‘Some Heavy Ocean’ heaves with the weight of an ocean, it’s amazing how a physical entity is conveyed so brilliantly through music. The swirling backtracking and early introduction to Emma’s stunning voice is a wonderful start.</p>
<p>‘Shadows of my Name’ is mainly acoustic led with a haunting backing of additional slide guitar. Emma’s voice is rich with emotion and depth, the track beginning quietly before swelling with resonant depth. Drums assist with increasing the volume but are never intrusive. When Emma’s voice turns to a more aggressive style, she recalls Sinead O’Connor at her finest. This album gives me the same feeling of something special that I experienced when I first heard O’Connor’s<em> I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got</em>. The songs, playing and striking twists and turns of the vocals showcasing a true talent.</p>
<p>The album’s pace and structure is perfectly positioned, another brief interlude ‘Your Card the Sun’ is barely there acoustic guitar flicks and ethereal vocals reverbed out of the room. Apt that the album was recorded at Sargent House’s home studio, Echo Park. A straight from the off rocking number, ‘Run Forever’ features untreated acoustic guitars and slide guitars duelling over an intense hum of a bass groove. Emma’s voice breathily sighing the verse before the chorus offers solidarity with <em>“If we both go down, we go down together”</em>. Perhaps a lazy comparison, but this track, along with a few others, does remind me of Chelsea Wolfe, however Rundle always manages to retain her own unique identity.</p>
<p>The album’s standout track, ‘Haunted Houses’ is full of melody and hooks, though that’s probably not the intention of the song, it really does emphasise Rundle’s way with a tune. Emma’s voice is overflowing with emotion and twists and turns through the winding melody with consummate ease at the end. It is quite simply put, a beautiful song.</p>
<p>This is followed with another track with an astonishing and beguiling melody, ‘Arms I Know So Well’, which begins with just voice, acoustic guitar and a light splash of cymbals. The fingering of the strings almost acting as a percussive device, every scrape and squeak kept in the mix.</p>
<p>There’s a contrast in detail between ‘Oh Sarah’ and ‘Savage Saint’, the former is one of the sparsest tracks, gothic in (Wolfe) tone, while the latter resonates with fuller strings over simplistic acoustic strums. Emma’s voice ably filling in any pockets of emptiness, no doubt exemplified by the family problems and personal struggles that influenced the songs and sound of the album. Beautiful reverb washes over the deep repetitive ‘riff’ of ‘We Are All Ghosts’, percussive cracks and thunderous toms assist with the chorus. Final track ‘Living with the Black Dog’ is the most intense and sonically violent song on the album. The guitars are given a rougher tone with some additional broken amplification, it’s a chilling end to an album that although bleak at times, offers hope and a brighter future.</p>
<p>Whilst this may be a debut album from an apparent new name (to me anyway), Emma Ruth Rundle has been making music and playing guitar with some serious ability for some years. It would appear the writing and recording of these songs took an immense amount of effort on her part, but sometimes, the catharsis is a cleansing process and the good will out. On <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em>, the good is most definitely out.</p>
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To date, Emma Ruth Rundle’s stabs at crafting a musical identity have been tentative ones. As the...<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19241-emma-ruth-rundle-some-heavy-ocean/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/071a6a10d917c9874c700e49e300e92a/tumblr_inline_n5w98yyML71rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/73f9442d135cb0662fe7adf7961d4930/tumblr_inline_n5w99iDamb1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></a></p>
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<p>To date, <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>’s stabs at crafting a musical identity have been tentative ones. As the frontwoman of the L.A.-based projects <a href="http://thenocturnes.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Nocturnes</a> and <a href="http://marriagesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kitsune" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marriages</a>, her eerie voice has been all but smothered by male accompanists, prog denseness, cyclonic distortion, or her own hushed delivery. The fact that she’s a stunningly supple and versatile guitarist—her skills are a vital component of the post-rock ensemble <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA7ibJkeNfU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a>—hasn’t given her that much reason to step up her vocal game. Even her previous <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/electric-guitar-one" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">solo material</a> has been guitar-centric and mostly instrumental. But Rundle’s new solo album, <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank"><em>Some Heavy Ocean</em></a>, is different. She not only sings, she does so a <em>lot</em>—and when she does, she soars.</p>
<p><!-- more -->That’s not to say the album sounds triumphant. <em>Some Heavy Ocean </em>is a black hole of anti-happiness, a heart-shaped growth of dark matter. Veins of inky folk run through “Shadows of My Name” and “Oh Sarah”, songs that encompass the scope of Rundle’s acoustic prowess: On the former, she attacks her strings as if they’re barbed wire that must be breached with her bare hands; on the latter, she fingerpicks with fluid delicacy. As sharp and vivid as her playing is, though, the clouds are always near. Swathes of strings and overdriven twang cast long shadows, and the intermittent drums rattle like bones in a box. Even the two brief, ethereal interludes, “Some Heavy Ocean” and “Your Card the Sun”, seem more like frozen chunks of time than mere placeholders. Far more than anything she’s done prior, the album is a dynamic, breath-snatching statement of intent that’s part lullaby, part night terror.</p>
<p>The biggest leap found on <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em> is Rundle’s voice. On “Shadows of My Name,” her reverb-shrouded vocals dart in and out of the mix, flashing fragments of language rather than distinct lines; in the chorus, she works herself up into nerve-pinching growl that’s recalls <a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/363-bjork/" target="_blank">Björk</a> at her most unhinged. Throughout the rest of tracks—particularly the mournful yet urgent “Run Forever”—Rundle’s comes across like a student of both <a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/29711-chelsea-wolfe/" target="_blank">Chelsea Wolfe</a>’s frigid intonation and <a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/3108-marissa-nadler/" target="_blank">Marissa Nadler</a>’s gloomy coo. As a singer, Rundle now sounds whole, and better yet, she’s gravitated toward a timeless resonance. The post-metal and shoegaze sounds she’s employed before have been left for something broader. When, on “Haunted Houses”, she warns of a distance that must be kept between her and the unnamed target of her simmering wrath, she evokes Stevie Nicks; having another song titled “Oh Sarah” only reinforces that impression, although that track’s candlelit, folk-rock balladry bears just a vague kinship to Fleetwood Mac’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJb87nNsGY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Sara”</a>.</p>
<p>Rundle’s lyrics, where they can be fully pieced together, are the weakest element of <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em>. There are only so many mentions of ghosts and graveyards that a record can take before it starts to feel cartoonishly goth, even when those motifs are woven into the music with such conviction and subtle shades of mood. That atmosphere works best when it strips away any hint of pale cliché and plunges under the ice; “Living with the Black Dog” is a droning, distorted, shadow-draped leviathan of a song, one in which Rundle breaks away from spooky folk and edges closer toward <a href="http://pitchfork.com/artists/1420-earth/" target="_blank">Earth</a>’s recent forays into chthonic Americana. Not only does it conclude the album on an ominous, ambitious note, it reconciles every medium she’s worked in so far: melody, noise, softness, severity, and a sense of quiet drama and melancholy. <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em> stands as Rundle’s first fully realized release as a singer-songwriter—and while its monochrome scale is narrow, she makes harrowing grays out of it. </p>
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</div>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965102014-05-19T15:40:00-07:002015-01-30T16:56:48-08:00NOISEY Interview: Emma Ruth Rundle <p><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/d98b79d0ae1023c382dacd43deb13350/tumblr_inline_n5ueasvMSy1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/c4282214f36a7149f22f0c4d2a09b7d7/tumblr_inline_n5ueb3SL4O1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/0418a3bfb09d9a34715926c83117b8c0/tumblr_inline_n5ueciVjnq1qbzv4w.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
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<p>If you came early to 2013’s North American <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Deafheaven" target="_blank">Deafheaven</a></strong> shows, you probably saw <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a></strong>. If you weren’t too moved in advance by the notion of <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes </a></strong>alums in a new band, bearing witness to <strong><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a></strong> leading that trio on guitar and voice like a blackened <strong>PJ Harvey</strong> likely swayed you. If you were indeed so moved, you probably sought out Marriages and Ms. Rundle on the interwebs, anxious for your next fix of bleak, metal-spiked, atmospheric rock.</p>
<p>Well, it turns out that next fix is Emma Ruth Rundle’s debut solo outing, <em><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>,</em> and it doesn’t sound like any of her former heavy selves. It is “heavy,” however, in the “as a death in the family” sense, but this record is resolutely “for the moms,” albeit the ones who were into clove cigarettes and light cutting as teens. Like some chance meeting on the dissecting table between <strong>Kate Bush</strong>, <strong>the Cure</strong>, and <strong>the Cocteau Twins</strong>, <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em> is a 4AD-tastic song cycle in which darkness is barely overcome, all bummer guitars and swimmy synths tucked into the lush production wrought by engineer Chris Common. You don’t have to be bummed to enjoy this record—when we speak, Rundle takes pains to point out that she is not. In fact, she lit up when we talked last week about silly kids’ cartoons, her awesome manager/landlord and the not-so-fucked-up David Lynch film she’s overlooked.</p>
<p><strong>Noisey: I hear a lilt in your voice, like English or Irish, when you sing. Are you from outside the US?</strong><br><strong>Emma Ruth Rundle:</strong> No, I’m LA-born and raised. I get that a lot actually and I’m not sure why—even in conversation! It might have something to do with my grandfather; he was an old-school Shakespearean actor and maybe his [archaic] style of speaking rubbed off on my sister and me.</p>
<p><strong><!-- more -->Did he go into voices or anything like that?</strong><br> Well, he wouldn’t do accents of different characters but it was just an old-fashioned way of speaking.</p>
<p><strong>What it makes me think of is Kate Bush or Cocteau Twins. Were they an influence?</strong><br> In general, yes. Kate Bush is an all-time favorite, as well as Cocteau Twins, though I couldn’t imagine attempting to be as good as them.</p>
<p><strong>But there’s no obvious connections to your past in heavy music. It seems like you went from a sideperson to being a frontwoman to being solo. How did that evolution come about?</strong><br> Well, I grew up with folk music and it’s been around me my whole life. I had a project called the Nocturnes that focused more on song-based music. But I’ve always been a fan of heavy music and was a fan of Red Sparowes when I joined. I got caught up in that and contributing to that, making guitar-based music.</p>
<p>That’s where I met the pedal-steel play Greg Burns and then we started Marriages, which is closer to where I came from but still in the heavy realm. Meanwhile, I’d always been working on my own stuff and finally decided it was time to release it not as the Nocturnes but under my own name. It was just a series of events that led me to having the opportunity to release that record through <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What were those events?</strong><br> Just working with <a href="http://instagram.com/sargenthouse" target="_blank">Cathy [Pellow</a>] with the aforementioned projects; she was aware of the other stuff I was doing. I proposed a solo record a few times. When we came back from the Marriages tour with Deafheaven, I was living at Sargent House at the time and the producer of some heavier stuff [drummer/engineer Chris Common] was also there and we just said, let’s do it, let’s make this happen. And that ended up being the collection of songs that made this record.</p>
<p><strong>The record sounds like someone coming out of a dark period and into a cautiously optimistic space—it sounds like someone who has worked their way out of something. Were there personal experiences that triggered this material?</strong><br> Yeah, they were definitely very specific events as well as an accumulation of a lifetime of being a crazy person. [<em>Laughs</em>] There were things I dealt with in that year: trying to be sober and getting out of a really self-destructive time. It’s hard to talk about. It’s less like, “This is what’s happening, and this is what I’m trying to get over.” It’s much more amorphous.</p>
<p><strong>Sure but this kind of music is less convincing without personal experience.</strong><br> I can see that. I’m not trying to do anything expect be honest. You can’t come at something from an analytical standpoint; it just kind of comes from the heart, not to sound cheesy.</p>
<p><strong>That doesn’t sound cheesy at all. Do you feel like you’ve tamed some of the beasts that come from being a “crazy person” by releasing this music or this an “in the blood” kind of thing that just takes another form?</strong><br> I think it’s an ongoing thing. I don’t think that darkness can ever be dissolved or overcome; it just kind of comes in waves. When you’re making this music your sort of reside in that space.</p>
<p><strong>No Weird Al-type material coming any time soon?</strong><br> No, but you never know. [<em>Laughs</em>] I am a fan. But you don’t want to take yourself too seriously. One of the reasons I do this is so that part of myself can sort of live here and have its space to be its own world. This is the area where you’re allowed to explore and be in touch with this part of things. I’m definitely not sitting there all the time. [<em>Laughs</em>]</p>
<p><strong>You give those feelings somewhere to live so you can have a life. David Lynch pointed out that when he removed darkness from his own life, it didn’t leave his art, he just understood its place better.</strong><br> I think that’s a good way to think about it. [Making art] makes that darkness a little more tangible in a sense, and you can observe it from an outside perspective. I don’t know that he’ll ever make a straightforward, happy movie.</p>
<p><strong>Well, that was sort of the point of <em>The Straight Story</em>. Did you see that?</strong><br> I didn’t. That was the Disney movie, right? I can’t believe there’s a David Lynch movie I haven’t seen. I’m always looking for something to watch.</p>
<p><strong>Especially now that there’s too much to watch! What something good you’ve seen recently?</strong><br> I just rewatched <em>I Saw The Devil</em>, this super-violent Korean revenge movie [it’s on Netflix Instant, btw], similar to <em>Oldboy</em>. I also really like cartoons. [<em>Laughs</em>] I love <em>Adventure Time</em>. I feel like since <em>Ren & Stimpy,</em> there hasn’t been something for kids that’s also really weird and captivating for adults.</p>
<p><strong>If you’re really into crime dramas, you should watch this BBC show called <em>Top of the Lake</em>. It stars Peggy from <em>Mad Men</em> as a cop investigating a murder in a small town that has all these weird characters like Holly Hunter as leader of an all-woman cult.</strong><br> You sold me on cult. [<em>Laughs</em>]</p>
<p><strong>So getting back to <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em>, I wanted to ask you about sequencing. The first track, the title track, is by far the weirdest. Was there anyone nudging you not to make that the first track?</strong><br> That started as a whole other song that wasn’t working and I rearranged it into what you hear for a textural intro thing to the record. I know in some schools of thought that that’s not how you start a record, but it’s not a mainstream pop record and doesn’t need to adhere to those guidelines.</p>
<p><strong>Who was involved in the record?</strong><br> Chris Common and I were living at Sargent House and we recorded it there. He has a home studio there and he recorded the whole thing, as well as playing drums, bass, and singing some back-up vocals.</p>
<p><strong>Tell me about living at Sargent House. People can live with Cathy Pellow on an as-needed basis?</strong><br> Yeah, it’s kind of a rotating cast of characters. Some people will be on tour and between places. There’s always an “artist-in-residence” there. Cathy helped me when my place was completely burglarized—literally all my stuff was stolen by some scary gangsters—I had nothing and she took me in.</p>
<p><strong>It seems like Cathy invests a lot into the artists she takes on.</strong><br> Cathy is a mad genius. I can get really choked up talking about her. She does everything with honesty and integrity and she works so hard for her artists. I owe her a lot on a personal and career level. She’s family to me; I’m very grateful.</p>
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<p></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965112014-05-12T10:31:01-07:002015-01-30T16:56:48-08:00Stream the full Emma Ruth Rundle album "Some Heavy Ocean" on Pitchfork Advance<p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/advance/430-some-heavy-ocean/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/dbbee37eabb916ee8f342acd90910e37/tumblr_inline_n5h1pnSReR1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
<p>The full album stream of <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a>'s “Some Heavy Ocean” is now online at <a href="http://pitchfork.com/advance/430-some-heavy-ocean/" target="_blank">Pitchfork Advance</a> all this week of May 12 -19th. All photos for the album were done by <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> & <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a> band mate and incredible photographer <a href="http://iamgregburns.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/" target="_blank">Greg Burns</a>. The Album will be officially released worldwide on May 20th on <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a> and is available for <a href="http://emmaruthrundle.hellomerch.com" target="_blank">pre-order on cd, vinyl HERE</a> (orders are shipping now a week before release). <br><br><br></p>Sargent Housetag:sargenthouse.com,2005:Post/34965122014-05-08T15:30:02-07:002015-01-30T16:56:48-08:00AltDialogue Album Review: Emma Ruth Rundle "Some Heavy Ocean"<p><a href="http://altdialogue.com/2014/05/08/album-review-some-heavy-ocean-by-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank"><img src="https://31.media.tumblr.com/64860424464bb313d640c1a712ae8cdf/tumblr_inline_n5a155XJdF1rlbw04.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>Rating 9/10</strong><br><br><a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Emma_Ruth_Rundle" target="_blank">Emma Ruth Rundle</a> releases her new solo album, <em><a href="http://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Some Heavy Ocean</a>,</em> on the 20<sup>th</sup> May via <a href="http://sargenthouse.com" target="_blank">Sargent House</a>. For the ease of knowing where this will sit on your radar you could pigeon hole the sound on <em>Some Heavy Ocean </em>as being alt or post folk. In reality however that doesn’t do the album any justice. What you have is a collection of 10 beautifully crafted songs. They are passionate and chilling, each song seems to be exercising some kind of demon.</p>
<p>If you’re not familiar with Emma Ruth Rundle, then you won’t know of her pedigree. In 2007 she formed the folkgaze collective The Nocturnes before joining seminal post rock legends Red Sparrows. This was the time that her guitar playing really came to the fore (you’ll hear plenty of her excellent playing on <em>Some Heavy Ocean</em>), when <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Red_Sparowes" target="_blank">Red Sparowes</a> went on hiatus in 2011 she formed the brilliant <a href="http://sargenthouse.com/Marriages" target="_blank">Marriages</a>. Not content with this pedigree she also reformed the Nocturnes and released an album of experimental guitar compositions.<!-- more --></p>
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<p>Fast forward a couple years, through which Rundle went experienced a “dark, difficult time”; marked by family problems and personal struggles, and 2013 sees her settle in Sargent House’s home studio to record <em>Some Heavy Ocean.</em> The result is those dark times laid down on record, with each vocal the pain and anguish resonates through your bones. It’s an alarming experience listening to <em>Some Heavy Ocean,</em> sit down and really listen and you’ll find yourself moved.</p>
<p>That’s not to say this is a depressing record, for every moment of despair you’ll be suckered in by an equally optimistic moment. ‘Shadows Of My Name’ is a beautiful and delicate, its bleakness only strengthening the track. ‘Run Forever’ is the album’s highlight, Rundle’s vocal is enchanting and guitar work is superb. It’s one of the more hopeful tracks and as such it’s compelling. Parts of the track are reminiscent of the Smashing Pumpkins at their most delicate. ‘Haunted Houses’ has more of that intricate guitar work and as becomes a common factor throughout <em>Some Heavy Ocean </em>Rundle’s voice tugs at your emotions.</p>
<p>‘Oh Sarah’ takes the pace down a notch, slow moving and serene the song will send a shiver down the back of the most hardened listener. Unsurprisingly the guitar work is captivating making you feel every note as it reverberates through your body. ‘Savage Saint’ and ‘We Are All Ghosts’ are both exquisite tracks, before you have album closer ‘Living With The Black Dog’ which is something truly special. The guitar goes electric for the first time adding a dark and brooding mood. Epic and haunting <em>Some Heavy Ocean </em>signs off making you feel like you’ve just listened to something deeply personal and my word does it leave its mark.</p>
<p>If you don’t find yourself emotionally attached come the end then you need to ask yourself some serious questions. A remarkable piece of work.</p>
<p><a href="http://altdialogue.com/2014/05/08/album-review-some-heavy-ocean-by-emma-ruth-rundle/" target="_blank">- by AltDialogue </a></p>Sargent House