Phenomenal singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle will release a new EP Orpheus Looking Back, a collection of three unreleased songs from the Engine Of Hell (review here) sessions, her highly lauded 2021 album, out now via Sargent House. She will kick off a massive tour of Europe, New Zeland, and Australia, with an appearance at Roadburn Festival in The Netherlands. Pre-order the album now. Listen to the first single “Pump Organ Song” now! 

https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/orpheus-looking-back   

The EP opens with “Gilded Cage” a song Rundle wrote in Berlin a number of years ago and loves to play live because of its energy, “it was also an outlier and couldn’t make the cut but deserved to live beyond the live show somehow”.

“Pump Organ Song” was written spontaneously in the studio in response to Rundle’s failing marriage and the availability of an old pump organ in the tracking room. Rundle Notes: “In the year that has come since recording the song, I feel more and more connected to this love song. It is still speaking to me about the process of parting ways and how romantic arrangements change and relationships close.” 

Finally, “St Non” was written in Wales after visiting the eponymous well, chapel and spring at Saint David in Pembrokeshire.

Engine of Hell, released in November of 2021, is a stark, intimate and unflinching look at trauma and grief. The album focused on a return to the piano, an instrument she left behind in her early twenties. 

The Engine of Hell recording sessions took place in Stinson Beach in December 2020, with Sonny DePerri co-producing/engineering.