EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘MARKED FOR DEATH’

Singer/songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle has announced her sophomore solo album, Marked For Death, which will be released on September 30th on Sargent House.  The album mines feelings of loss, defeat, heartache and self-destructiveness and emerges as Emma Ruth Rundle's most honest and compelling accomplishment to date.  Marked For Death’s title track - which is streaming now on The FADER (or directly on soundcloud) - is a past-tense treatise on doomed love and blooms into a cascading murmuration of guitar and strings, its towering, epic presence characteristic of much of Rundle’s work.

Marked for Death finds Emma Ruth Rundle emerging as a performer of naked intensity. She shapes vast, evocative landscapes of sound, combining them with lyrics of devastating candor. Self-determination and resiliency, disguised in this case as coming to terms with overwhelming defeat, are key aspects of her personality. Transforming pain into works of great beauty makes her the compelling artist she is.  A more adventurous production than her solo debut Some Heavy Ocean (2014, Sargent House), the eight compositions on Marked for Death, helmed by engineer/co-producer Sonny DiPerri, emphasize dynamics and vocal melodies, variable tuning, and a dense layering and texturing of guitars. Nevertheless, fear and self-doubt linger in the shadows of Rundle’s mind, providing an incessant counterpoint to her ambitious talent and sultry, albeit de-emphasized, allure.

EMMA RUTH RUNDLE RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO

Emma Ruth Rundle released her debut solo album Some Heavy Ocean earlier this summer on Sargent House to great critical acclaim.  Today, she has premiered the first music video from the album.  Titled "Arms I Know So Well", this video was directed by Tom McMahan and is a conceptual study of isolation and searching for familiarity, shooting in situations highlighting the solitude that is living alone with oneself.  Watch Emma Ruth Rundle's video for "Arms I Know So Well" now below.