Weaving the aching torment of grief, loss and trauma with exquisite arrangements and beautiful lyricism, Emi Night delivers her stunning new self-titled album. A new visionary adventure that stands on the shoulders of her Hatcher Creek and In the Garden, In the Night works. Night bequeaths to the world, a deeply personal yet highly relatable record. Sharing her insights to several tracks, Night reveals the inner sanctum behind five tracks off the album.

I wrote and recorded this song at home. I originally shared the first demo with a songwriting group I was hosting at my place in Philly when I first moved there. I loved that group - it was the best kind of pressure to finish songs. We'd meet up once a month and have some food together and each share a song, then after hearing everyone's feedback and their amazing new songs, I'd be inspired to go work more on my music. The version that made it onto the album is the second demo that I made, plus a few extra layers. I actually tried recording it in the studio with the band a couple times and realized that the intimacy of the early solo demo captured the song better than the energy of the full-band did. So when we went into Big Nice to finish up the album I brought the original demo with me, Benedict Kupstas added some mellotron parts, Erika Nininger added Rhodes, Michael Cormier-O'Leary threw in a little extra acoustic guitar for texture, we messed with the choruses a bit, and voila! The song had been there all along.

This song came to me one sleepless night, a few hours after I found out my partner at the time had been cheating throughout our relationship. I was mourning everything I'd believed about that relationship while I was writing it. I recorded it at my friend/bandmate Heather Jones home studio, (So Big Auditory) along with my friend Galen Passen who plays sitar on the track. I think sitar is such a beautiful, melancholic instrument, with sympathetic strings echoing every note like ripples in a pool of tears. As with most of my songs, I recorded the vocals in my home studio. I like to be alone when I record vocals - it's an intimate process.

This is actually a re-worked song from the original, original Strawberry Runners setlist back in 2013. I changed the lyrics a bit, added another verse/bridge thing at the end. In the outro, you can hear a little ghost vocal "oh" coming through the drum mics, which comes from the original "choruses" where we'd sing a lot of triumphant "ohs" lol I took the 2013 recording down, but the original Strawberry Runners listeners know the true roots of this track

These are a couple of post-breakup songs and they're siblings. They were almost part of the same song, but I split them up to tell the story in two different ways. I think it's interesting to hear them back-to-back - you can hear they come from the same place, but one moved to a college town and the other moved to Nashville.