HELLO EMERSON - To Keep Him Here LP no wave one of the great double

one of the great double albums of the past 25 years

too—he has won FME’s Coup De Coeur

with Schrock’s earnest contributions balancing out Miller’s more sardonic approach

especially when he goes off like a car alarm on "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" which constitutes six of the most gleeful minutes of music in the past decade

the music QUITS strangle out of their instruments feels very 'now'

HELLO EMERSON - To Keep Him Here LP no wave one of the great doubleConsisting of singer guitarist Bodary, percussionist and musical director arranger Dan Seibert, and keyboardist Jack Doran, Hello Emerson has been crafting subtle, earnest, and expansive songs since its formation in 2015. Drawing on the midwestern songwriting tradition of acclaimed acts like Bright Eyes and The Mountain Goats, Bodarys erudite yet homespun lyrics are bolstered by the groups increasingly baroque arrangements. Their latest effort further