189: Emily Yacina – Talk Me Down

The music of Emily Yacina has been bubbling away in the background of my life for well over a decade now – although it's been six years since her last new album, and three years since the release of career-spanning collection 'All The Things'.

Debut album Heart Sky (2017) followed a few years worth of songs and EPs, and was followed somewhat swiftly with the release of Remember The Silver in 2019, a fascinating collection of skewed pop songs. Though those albums were self-released, Emily always felt a part of the wider Orchid Tapes family – led by Warren Hildebrand of Foxes In Fiction, who mastered Heart Sky – and collaborated with a number of the label's alumni over the years.

New song 'Talk Me Down' – the first taste of a brand new album, due out at the end of September – opens with a warped run of keys that feels pulled straight from that fertile snapshot of time for the NYC label, before opening up into a gem of a song, Emily's voice gently folding into oddly-weighted shapes as the music sparkles away behind her.

The little productions tricks – time slows and then runs on again, the voice is stretched and then left to return – adds a real depth, a true sense of playful mysticism as Emily sings of love and lust, in all of its weird complexities and rough edges.

All of which is to say: it's so so good to have her back. Watch the excellent accompanying video below right now.

Veilfall, is released September 26th and available to pre-order via Bandcamp