Earlier on this month, Speedy Ortiz announced a new EP, ‘Foiled Again’, alongside a track from the release ‘Death Note’. Now, they’ve revealed a second.
The latest cut, ‘Emma O’, debuted via Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show, and is named after “the Japanese Buddhist overlord of hell who judges souls.”
Not just someone called Emma, then.
“I wrote it at a farmhouse in update New York years ago,” Sadie Dupuis reveals in a statement. Can we really sure it’s not about a friendly cow or an especially inquisitive chicken, then? No. No we can’t.
Stop reading our padding of a story, and check out the typically excellent ‘Emma O’ ‘below’.
We’re poets and we didn’t… (sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip – Ed)