The song is taken from the Portland-based artist's forthcoming LP, 'Exile in the Outer Ring', which is due out on August 25 via City Slang. Speaking about the video, which was directed by Alicia Rose and premiered by NPR, she said:
“I came across Taj’s [Bourgeois - Portland artist] work at a small house-gallery in PDX called Surplus Space. It was mostly sculptures including a crucified banana and some leather-bound S&M carrots. I loved it immediately. He is constantly creating work on pretty much zero budget, and it’s brilliant. I thought that combination of broke-ness, innovation, desperation and hilarity would be a perfect match for ‘Down And Out.’”
“Our relationship isn’t super defined in the video but overall he’s kind of like my alter-ego. One theme that emerged was kind of male/female modes of destruction and frustration. Inward vs. outward desperation, vanity and lack thereof. Definitely our work in general shares the theme of transformation in a prosaic place. The little girl that comes in at the end is his daughter. They often make work together and how lucky for a kid to have a dad like that? To me the image of her cutting his hair at the end is kind of like the lamb taming the lion, a bit of tenderness in a cruel world.”
EMA will support the new record with UK shows this autumn as part of wider European tour. Following that she will head out on a co-headline North American tour with the Blow.
EMA Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:
Mon October 02 2017 - BRIGHTON Sticky Mike's Frog Bar
Tue October 03 2017 - LONDON Oslo
Wed October 04 2017 - MANCHESTER Soup Kitchen
Thu October 05 2017 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Fri October 06 2017 - GLASGOW Broadcast
Sat October 07 2017 - LEICESTER Cookie
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