Ema - Exile In The Outer Ring [Red Vinyl] (New Vinyl LP)

Limited edition red colored vinyl LP pressing. After the success of 2011's Past Life Martyred Saints and 2014's prophetic The Future's Void, Ema retreated to a basement in Portland, OR - a generic apartment complex in a non-trendy neighborhood, with beige carpeting and cheap slat blinds. Now, she returns, with a portrait of The Outer Ring: A pitch-black world of dark night highways, American flags hung over basement windows, jails and revival meetings and casinos and rage. In a year dominated by white working-class alienation and anger, Ema - a Midwesterner who never lost her thousand-yard stare - has delivered an album that renders Middle American poverty and resentment with frightening realism and deep empathy.

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A1        7 Years
A2        Breathalyzer
A3        I Wanna Destroy
A4        Blood And Chalk
A5        Down And Out
B1        Fire Water Air LSD
B2        Aryan Nation
B3        33 Nihilistic And Female
B4        Receive Love
B5        Always Bleeds
B6        Where The Darkness Began