“I never planned for this to go on the album, but we had a spare half an hour at the end of a recording session at Lightship so we decided to just try out a live take. Luckily we got it in one and it felt right to finish the album with it.”
Debut LP out 13th of October on One Little Indian
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Album launch Kamio on the 15th of November
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The red-blooded ode ripples with post-punk furore and dank, murky rhythms… the chorus in to the stratosphere” – The Line of Best Fit
“TUSKS has made more than a few waves with her atmospheric, emotion-drenched first offerings” – DIY
“Like her One Little Indian labelmate Björk, Emily Underhill is fully in control of her craft, weaving together beautiful, glacial pop songs from guitar, voice and programming ” – Red Bull
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With her debut album Dissolve released 13th October, TUSKS (aka Emily Underhill) builds on her towering musical vision. Created alongside longtime co-producer Brett Cox, her rich visual imagination with its cinematic enormity and resplendent detail is the work of a young artist mastering the nuances of her craft, a journey which began in her early teens.
With the album release less than a week away, Tusks shares the final track on it, a cover of Foals’ ‘London Thunder’.
“I never planned for this to go on the album, but we had a spare half an hour at the end of a recording session at Lightship so we decided to just try out a live take. Luckily we got it in one and it felt right to finish the album with it.”
From a young age, her voracious appetite for music has taken in artists as disparate as Bonobo, Explosions in the Sky, and Foals, and the result is a sound that resists pigeon-holing. It’s the assemblage of all her experiences as an artist and as a person that get distilled in her powerful, glacial sound, which has been praised across the spectrum by tastemakers including Wonderla
Debut album Dissolve is heady and ambitious, not so much the sum of its influences as an outward projection of its creator. It’s the purest distillation of Emily as a person, and it strikes a uniquely human chord through its melodies, which are at once comfortingly familiar and refreshing.
1 NOV – Reykjavik, IS – Iceland Airwaves
15 NOV – London, UK – Kamio
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TUSKS – Dissolve
(October 13th – One Little Indian)
For You
False
Last
Dissolve
1807
Paris
Ivy
Toronto
My Love
London Thunder
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