"[a] gorgeously arcane album of shape-shifting pop songs and fractured, Syd Barrett-esque folk meanderings...moves effortlessly from eerie ambience to chugging guitar-rock to artfully delicate folk...sweetly captivating stuff." Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer

EMMA garden city 44 1999 (CD) Schwa-Disk EM-9 12 songs, 50 minutes Autumn / Devil in the Marketplace / Drowning in Awe / The Whistling Dog / Lopsided / Your Submarine Gown Devil is the Marketplace / Starday Material / Slip & Fall / Pure Hollywood / Chemical Town / Nevada ordering info

A brief synopsis of your workday. It starts in a half-remembered dream of drones and worker bees and ends with you dropping off to sleep with wishful thoughts of winning the lottery. In between you get chewed out by your boss, read your horoscope in the daily paper during a hasty lunch, get stuck in a traffic jam, watch some television, and have an existential crises of doubt at 1:30 in the morning on the back porch. Sound familiar? It's all here, rendered in sweeping choruses and eerie sounds. Occasional bursts of rock enthusiasm tempered by long periods of intense reflection. The best extended portrait of everyday life since Days of Future Past. Just kidding.