EMA is Erika M. Anderson, a 28-year-old South Dakota native whose solo debut, Past Life Martyred Saints, mixes up slow-boil acoustic intensity, blasts of fuzz, and stick-in-your-head alt-rock melodies. Anderson used to front dead-eyed drone-folk group Gowns, which she founded with then-boyfriend Ezra Buchla. When the band splintered in 2010 after Anderson and Buchla's breakup, she returned to South Dakota and began writing Saints (out now), which maintains all the severity of her former band, but balances the desperation with glimpses of hope.
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