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Vinyl LP pressing. After the success of 2011's Past Life Martyred Saints and 2014's prophetic The Future's Void, Ema retreated to a basement in Portland, OR - a generic apartment complex in a non-trendy neighborhood, with beige carpeting and cheap slat blinds. Now, she returns, with a portrait of The Outer Ring A pitch-black world of dark night highways, American flags hung over basement windows, jails and revival meetings and casinos and rage. In a year dominated by white working-class alienation and anger, Ema - a Midwesterner who never lost her thousand-yard stare - has delivered an album that renders Middle American poverty and resentment with frightening realism and deep empathy. Album Tracks 1. 7 Years 4 07 2. Breathalyzer 6 21 3. I Wanna Destroy 3 07 4. Blood & Chalk 3 17 5. Down & Out 3 37 1. Fire Water Air LSD 3 48 2. Aryan Nation 2 53 3. 33 Nihilistic & Female 3 26 4. Receive 3 19 5. Always Bleeds 5 20 6. Where the Darkness Began 1 53
