London Music Award Nomination Emmy the Great: 'On the one hand sweeping and allusive, on the other breathtakingly intimate and personal, Emmy the Great’s album Virtue is a dense accomplished set of songs brought on by the disintegration of the singer’s engagement. Amid the swirling Paper Forest she sings the words ‘I’m blessed’ with heartbreaking clarity; a kind of awestruck self-belief. Her delivery anchors the whole affair, assuming an emotional weight only glimpsed at previously . . . an extraordinarily confident work, shaped by confusion and turmoil.'

BBC Music: “One the one hand sweeping and allusive, on the other breathtakingly intimate and personal, Emmy the Great’s album Virtue is a dense accomplished set of songs brought on by the disintegration of the singer’s engagement. Amid the swirling Paper Forest she sings the words ‘I’m blessed’ with heartbreaking clarity; a kind of awestruck self-belief. Her delivery anchors the whole affair, assuming an emotional weight only glimpsed at previously . . . an extraordinarily confident work, shaped by confusion and turmoil.”

Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, London-raised Emma Lee-Moss released her first solo work, Secret Circus in 2006. The following year, she was a backing singer for Lightspeed Champion, before returning to her solo efforts in 2009, when she released her debut album, First Love, which made The New York Times’ top ten albums of the year.

In May 2011, Lee-Moss collaborated with Tim Wheeler of Ash on a single to raise money for the MS Society. They also produced a Christmas album together.

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