EMA has shared a brand new video for ‘Down and Out’.
The track is taken from her forthcoming album ‘Exile in the Outer Ring’, which is set to arrive on 25th August via City Slang.
Speaking about the video, which is directed by Alicia Rose, she explains: “I came across Taj’s [Bourgeois – Portland artist] work at a small house-gallery in PDX called Surplus Space. It was mostly sculptures including a crucified banana and some leather-bound S&M carrots. I loved it immediately. He is constantly creating work on pretty much zero budget, and it’s brilliant. I thought that combination of broke-ness, innovation, desperation and hilarity would be a perfect match for ‘Down And Out.’”
“Our relationship isn’t super defined in the video but overall he’s kind of like my alter-ego. One theme that emerged was kind of male/female modes of destruction and frustration. Inward vs. outward desperation, vanity and lack thereof. Definitely our work in general shares the theme of transformation in a prosaic place. The little girl that comes in at the end is his daughter. They often make work together and how lucky for a kid to have a dad like that? To me the image of her cutting his hair at the end is kind of like the lamb taming the lion, a bit of tenderness in a cruel world.”
Check out the video for ‘Down and Out’ below.
EMA is set to return to the UK this autumn to support the record, as part of a European tour. She’ll kick off the six date run in Brighton, calling off in London, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow before finishing up in Leicester.
The dates read:
October
2 Brighton Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
3 London Oslo
4 Manchester Soup Kitchen
5 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
6 Glasgow Broadcast
7 Leicester Cookie