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“My story begins with the moon. In September 2017, I travelled to Hong Kong from New York, where I’d lived for three years, for the Mid-Autumn festival. I was planning to visit my parents and take some time off to write my fourth album. I arrived in time for the full moon - Chang-E’s moon - at a time of year when the heat breaks and the city seems alive with possibility. “… that Mid-Autumn, everything felt simple. Under the guidance of the moon, I walked the city - its neon-lit alleyways, its escalators and mountain paths. For a brief, precious moment, I fell into synch with Hong Kong. I felt its complex legacy and its tangled future. I felt the sorrow, alive in the buzz of neon and the drips of air-conditioner units, of a city caught between two destinies. It was twenty years since the Handover and the beginning of ‘One Country, Two Systems’. Everywhere I went, I saw people seeking to define their shared identity before it was too late. I hope some of that spirit has found its way into the songs, which were mostly written during that time.”

Tracks

1~1~Mid-Autumn
1~2~
1~3~Writer
1~4~Dandelions
1~5~Inal
1~6~Chang-E
1~7~A Window
1~8~Eeffe
1~9~Okinawa
1~10~D
1~11~Your Hallucinations
1~12~Mary
1~13~Hollywood Road
1~14~Il
1~15~Heart Sutra

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Emmy The Great
Release Date: 09 October 2020
Genre: Pop
Label: Bella Union
Distributor: Inertia Music