Emmy The Great - "We Almost Had a Baby"

Esta es una preciosa canción folk pop que descubrí gracias a Brogues y su blog (http://blogs.myspace.com/brogues ). Es el single de debut de esta ¿chica? ¿grupo? que en Enero publicará su primer lp. Este es el texto de Brogues:

"Turns out I missed Emmy The Great at Nice'n'Sleazy when she played in support of Diane Cluck in June. It was the night Holland whupped France in Euro 2008 and I just couldn't tear myself from the couch for fear of missing even a minute of their insanely pretty football. After hearing her upcoming single "We Almost Had A Baby" on Mark Radcliffe's show this week I realise now that I might've made a bum decision. Melodically irresistible, it ripples along just beautifully. Backing vocals swoop and swoon until the sparkles come in at which point it becomes altogether more magical. As of a few minutes ago her myspace page suggested that it had been listened to 1,547 times. I'm pretty sure at least 1,000 of them were by me."

Y esto es lo que dice la web de Rough Trade sobre su single de debut:

limited edition (750) 7" with pull out poster. just how close can a floundering relationship come to unplanned permanence, and what is the last dice role in its interminable power struggle? 'we almost had a baby' is the delicately beguiling new single from emmy the great, on close harbour. "our guitarist euan says our songs are passive aggressive - people think we're harmless unless they're really listening". with its unassuming introduction, an amber swell of 60s girl group melancholia, and a startling denouement; emmy's new single fits her guitarist's synopsis entirely. it also proves indicative of the savage observations and stark admissions that comprise their forthcoming debut album. cloaked in arrangements of disarming simplicity, emmy the great's 'first love' is set for release in january. it arrives self-funded and self-produced, emmy's answer to the pigeonholers and industry insiders who would have her painted differently; resisting the overtures of label bosses and managers, proposed collaborations with hit factory songwriters, and insightful appeals to 'put a few more choruses in'. produced in collaboration with guitarist euan hinshelwood, and pianist tom rogerson, it was recorded at the earlies' lovably dilapidated studios in rural lancashire. "it seemed the right place to go" explains emmy, "this little room in the middle of nowhere, with borrowed equipment and no lightbulbs, was the perfect antithesis to all my previous bad experiences with producers. the earlies were really patient and let us mess around as much as we wanted with arrangements." the album that emerged is a deft and determined debut. its title may evoke the first, exquisite pangs of youthful mutual desire but in a typically emmy-esque subversion, the name is actually taken from samuel beckett's depressing novella about a violently misogynistic lover. 'first love' is a hard-won innocence-to-experience saga about a destructive but ultimately character-forming real-life relationship, in which the songwriting process was her final act of catharsis.