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Emma Ruth Rundle 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.
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Emma Ruth Rundle 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, On Dark Horses, 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.
Read moreEmma Ruth Rundle – “Light Song” (featuring Jaye Jayle) from the album “On Dark Horses"– Available Sept 14th on Sargent House. CD/LP Pre-order HERE All Pre-order: HERE
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An in depth interview with Emma Ruth Rundle about her new album "On Dark Horses" coming out on Friday, Sept 14th everywhere - Pre-order here. She will also be on tour starting Sept 15th.
Interview by Paige Mathis via Astral Noize
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Origins is a recurring new music feature that tasks an artist with dissecting the influences behind their latest track.
On September 14th, Emma Ruth Rundle, 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 “Fever Dreams”, and today she shares its follow-up, the thunderingly ominous “Darkhorse”.
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"...there's an emotional spark here that never goes out" – Q Magazine (print) 4/5
"Great artists often tell you their life story through their art, and On Dark Horses will be looked back on as a truly great ‘tale of redemption’ album. " – Metal Hammer
"Against ominously pounding drums, the music rises around Rundle’s vocals as if she’s summoning the elements into a dance. The resulting sound is something like somber Americana rendered in rich gothic splendor. She’s too good at this." – Stereogum, Darkhorse coverage
"On Dark Horses is another incredibly emotional journey of an album. Her best yet." – Metal Injection
"some of the dreamiest and most beautiful melancholia you’ll hear all year" – Music & Riots 9/10
"This is another confident step forward by an artist who continues to dazzle us with new sides of herself.” – Exclaim! 8/10
"It’s heavy music, and it’s beautiful music, not by any conventional measure of either but devastating either way." – Treble “Album of the Week”
"Rundle's singular blend of swirling post-rock and doomy gothic metal feels remarkably intimate, even when the decibels are being pushed into the stratosphere.” – AllMusic 4/5
"On Dark Horses isn’t just a good record; it’s not even a great one. It is, quite simply, a masterpiece." – Distorted Sound 10/10
"Rundle has built titanic soundscapes that allow her emotions to take all of the space they deserve -- and then some.” – No Depression
"'On Dark Horses' is some dark, brooding folk that puts Rundle’s distinctive, evocative, and frankly incredible voice in centre stage." – Everything is Noise
"This is another confident step forward by an artist who continues to dazzle us with new sides of herself." – Chorus.fm
"another heavenly collection of heartfelt songs that embellish an already stellar back catalogue of greatness" – Echoes & Dust
"Emma Ruth Rundle is fast becoming one of her generation’s finest purveyors of outsider art” – Punktastic
"Drenched in reverb, distortion, and other effects, her guitar sound teeters between beautifully malleable and dense, constantly pierced by her otherworldly voice.” – Chicago Reader
"Quite simply, this woman is beyond superlative, a creative entity able to spark and crush every synapse in the human body, who has once again produced an album that truly touches the soul." – Ghost Cult 9/10
"…the album soars when she’s at her most aggressive, but its lighter tones help elevate those moments even more" – Soundblab 8/10
"...matches MfD‘s fervor and intensity on the equally foreboding yet devastatingly beautiful On Dark Horses.” – The Revue
"...Emma Ruth Rundle refines her craft further by creating an album as melancholic as her peers without cherry-picking from neighboring genres and expertly sewing subtle intricacies into her minimalistic music to create something that sounds genuinely redemptive.” – SputnikMusic 4/5
"…some of her most intricate, dense, and powerful material to date” – Svbterranean 9/10
"It's almost a cliché these days to say that a record defies genre conventions, but in the case of On Dark Horses, there isn't a better way to describe it. It combines elements of folk, country, and post metal without belonging to any of them. It vacillates between solemnity and celebration, always maintaining the same emotional heft. So while I might not know what section to put it under in my record collection, I do know it will be getting plenty of time on the turntable.” – Punk Rock Theory 9/10
“This is Emma Ruth Rundle’s best album, and it further proves the continued mastering of her approach to darker music.” – Tanda Media 9/10