Dynamic Show Review | EMA | 5.14.14

It’s EMA, not MIA

Rough Trade. The very definition of the music game. It’s also the namesake of Williamsburg’s latest musical outpost featuring a record store in da front, venue in the back, and a set up that is just enough to be tight space comfortable. A space serving as a big ass garage, which happens to be the perfect surrounding for some care free grunge action. Insert EMA. “That Blonde” chick front woman with an unmistakable down home swag, her group invaded the B.K. Friday with a tasty grime not often seen.

Their sound is a throwback to raw live music. It’s fucking noise. Glorious, bang on that trashcan, oops I fucked up the car, but I’m sorry about it, noise. Not the shit you hear when you’re dancing your ass off for hours on end to repetitive bass drops and super sonic uptempo dubstep or electro house; rather the residue of Nirvana, Hole and Garbage. EMA’s subtle twist on the aesthetic with violin play and electro beats (cut me some slack it’s 2014), is refreshing, but the bi-polar feelings of love, hope, despair and hopelessness remain. Like in “Anteroom,” “If this time through, we don’t get it right, I’ll come back to you in another life.” Shit, I love this women. That’s at least until she’s done with me. But you know that’s ok,cause at least I’ll know it was real. Yeah, that;s it, real.

Click Here to listen to their latest album, The Future’s Void.

Writer + Photographer | Rene Ramirez

The Set List

Violin Intro and Speech

Satellites

Solace

Marked

Cthulu

Neuromancer

3Jane

Cherylee (Gowns cover)

California

When She Comes

So Blonde

Dead Celebrity

Encore:

Feels Blind (Bikini Kill cover)

Anteroom

White Like Heaven