Over the past year Terry Emm has been recording his highly anticipated third album in Birmingham with producer Michael Clarke (Dan Whitehouse, Oh! Stockholm, Arbour Lights) and acclaimed string arranger Calina De La Mare (Tindersticks, Sophia).  The title track can now be revealed as ‘Starlight’.

“I met Michael (Clarke) when I was younger” says Emm who’s last collaboration with Clarke and De Mare “Loved And Never Lost”, also to be on the forthcoming album, gained critical acclaim and airplay on BBC 6 Music.  “I was a fan of Michael’s band ‘Clarkesville’ and their album inspired me a lot with its mix of uplifting pop rock tracks and singer-songwriter style tracks” adds Emm. “After finishing my last album “Petals Fallen Off The Sun”, I was trying to get out of quite a dark place which that album reflects and kept running into coincidences involving Michael Clarke. I found out that he was now producing and so eventually started laying down some experiments with him and the rest is history”, he finishes.

‘Starlight’ with its intricate almost jazzy rhythmic folk finger picking and effortless soaring strings and English sensibilities refines a style that it seems Emm has been working towards on his critically acclaimed predecessor releases.  Talking of the song’s origin Emm says: “I came up with the guitar riff whilst sitting on a park bench in Amsterdam on a friend’s down tuned guitar.  Then it came back to me when I wrote some words about the passing of my nan as I thought it had a nice otherworldly, reminiscent feel much like looking back on the life of someone”. 

‘Starlight’ single out digitally 3rd March 2014.

See Terry Emm at one of his upcoming UK dates:

2013       01st Dec                 Dalston                   Christmas Market

2014       02nd Jan                  Manchester          The Unicorn

08th Jan                  London                  Dublin Castle

12th Jan                  Brighton                 Chequers

15th Jan                  Brighton                 The Font

14th Feb                 Dundee                  Café Borsa

09th Mar                 Brighton                 Chequers

Links:           Soundcloud:                   ‘Starlight’ (for embedding): https://soundcloud.com/terryemm/starlight-1

Download: https://soundcloud.com/terryemm/terry-emm-starlight/s-kviRC

YouTube:                           http://www.youtube.com/user/terryemmofficial

‘Loved And Never Lost’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsSSAWbSq7s

Web:                                   http://www.terryemm.co.uk

Facebook:                                                 http://www.facebook.com/terryemmmusic

Twitter:                             http://www.twitter.com/terryemmmusic

Press quotes:                       ‘Excellent, excellent music’ -BOB HARRIS, BBC RADIO 2

“Such finely crafted songs”- R2 MAGAZINE

“Absolutely Delightful”- CHRIS HAWKINS, BBC 6 MUSIC

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