Emily Alone

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Emily Alone
Emily Alone.album.jpg
Studio album by
Florist
Released26 July 2019
RecordedWinter 2018
Length39:42
Label Double Double Whammy
Florist chronology
If Blue Could Be Happiness
(2017)		Emily Alone
(2019)		Florist
(2022)

Emily Alone is the third record by folk band Florist, released through Double Double Whammy on 26 July 2019. Although Florist is a collaborative project, the record was written and recorded solely by Florist member Emily A. Sprague, who also has ambient solo music released under her own name. [1]

Contents

Background

Sprague grew up in New York, and Florist were originally based in Brooklyn, where they released their first two albums in 2016 and 2017 on Double Double Whammy. [2] [3] In 2017 Sprague moved across the country to Los Angeles, in response to what she described as a need "to go somewhere drastically different to discover new parts of myself." [4] In California she started recording ambient music, and releasing it as a solo artist. [5]

Sprague recorded Emily Alone at her home in LA in the winter of 2018. [2] [4] She told Stereogum that she was "incredibly depressed for the first six months to a year that I lived [in LA]. Writing the album was the thing that finally was the culmination of all those feelings, the thing that finally released it all." [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.9/10 [6]
Metacritic 87/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
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No Ripcord7/10 [9]
Paste 9.2/10 [10]
Pitchfork 8.4/10 [1]

Emily Alone was released to critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 87 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim", based on five reviews. [7] Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork called the album "dark, acoustic, and bracingly metaphysical...the most striking Florist release yet." [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."As Alone"04:02
2."Moon Begins"03:05
3."Celebration"04:27
4."I Also Have Eyes"04:16
5."Ocean Arms"03:34
6."Time Is A Dark Feeling"02:36
7."M"02:46
8."Now"03:01
9."Rain Song"03:35
10."Still"01:17
11."Shadow Bloom"03:40
12."Today I'll Have You Around"03:22
Total length:39:42

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Sam Sodomsky (July 29, 2019). "Florist: Emily Alone Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Jenn Pelly (July 25, 2019), "Florist's Emily Sprague Is on a Never-Ending Search for Life's Biggest Mysteries", pitchfork.com, Pitchfork , retrieved April 27, 2024
  3. ↑ Mia Hughes (July 20, 2022), "Florist is here to make friends", npr.org, NPR , retrieved April 27, 2024
  4. 1 2 3 James Rettig (June 25, 2019), "Finding Balance With Florist", stereogum.com, Stereogum , retrieved April 27, 2024
  5. ↑ Mark Richardson (June 1, 2019), "Emily A. Sprague Water Memory (review)", pitchfork.com, Pitchfork , retrieved April 27, 2024
  6. ↑ "Florist Emily Alone", anydecentmusic.com, AnyDecentMusic?, retrieved April 27, 2024
  7. 1 2 "Emily Alone by Florist Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic . Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  8. ↑ Emily Alone at AllMusic
  9. ↑ Juan Edgardo Rodriguez (July 20, 2019), "Emily Alone (review)", noripcord.com, retrieved April 27, 2024
  10. ↑ Ben Salmon (July 25, 2019). "Florist: Emily Alone Review". Paste . Retrieved August 14, 2021.
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