Emily Alone
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| Emily Alone | ||||
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| Released | 26 July 2019 | |||
| Recorded | Winter 2018 | |||
| Length | 39:42 | |||
| Label | Double Double Whammy | |||
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Emily Alone is the third record by folk band Florist, released through Double Double Whammy on 26 July 2019. Although Florist is a collaborative project, the record was written and recorded solely by Florist member Emily A. Sprague, who also has ambient solo music released under her own name.[1]
Sprague grew up in New York, and Florist were originally based in Brooklyn, where they released their first two albums in 2016 and 2017 on Double Double Whammy.[2][3] In 2017 Sprague moved across the country to Los Angeles, in response to what she described as a need "to go somewhere drastically different to discover new parts of myself."[4] In California she started recording ambient music, and releasing it as a solo artist.[5]
Sprague recorded Emily Alone at her home in LA in the winter of 2018.[2][4] She told Stereogum that she was "incredibly depressed for the first six months to a year that I lived [in LA]. Writing the album was the thing that finally was the culmination of all those feelings, the thing that finally released it all."[4]
Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.9/10[6] |
| Metacritic | 87/100[7] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| No Ripcord | 7/10[9] |
| Paste | 9.2/10[10] |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10[1] |
Emily Alone was released to critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 87 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim", based on five reviews.[7] Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork called the album "dark, acoustic, and bracingly metaphysical...the most striking Florist release yet."[2]
