New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Girlie Action) Emilie Simon moved to Brooklyn in 2008 to record her new album The Big Machine. She collaborated with talented guests including Kelly Pratt and Jeremy Gara (Arcade Fire) as well as Jon Natchez (Beirut), Mark Plati (David Bowie, The Cure, Brazilian Girls) and acclaimed British fiction writer Graham Joyce. The Big Machine, her first album recorded entirely in English, is out today on Le Plan. Check out album track "Ballad Of The Big Machine" where it premiered on NYLON today or HERE. You can also check out the song " Rainbow" streaming on Windows Media Guide and full record streaming on AOL Spinner. "Ballad Of The Big Machine" MP3 Premiered On NYLON Today! "inventive"
- The New Yorker
"A riveting album by a truly magnificent eccentric, her live show... is also strongly recommended for a full dose of her brilliant outlandishness."
- Blackbook
"... songwriter with a demure crackly voice whose music is rooted in Bjork-esque notions of how technology and nature stream together."
- SPIN
"... an electro-pop singer with a thump, purr, and sizzle."
- Interview
"Upbeat stomping epics that build and build"
- The Independent
The Big Machine is full of emilie's powerful and seductive voice, inventively playful arrangements, driving synths and rhythms, and prodigious melodies. "The Ballad of the Big Machine" driving piano and horns punctuate emilie's plea to let her in. The percolating rhythm of "The Cycle" commands you to dance as emilie's voice wraps itself around the beats and soars until the song explodes. "Rocket to the Moon" takes us back to an era that didn't quite exist, it's big band sound is reminiscent of the 1920s is also decorated with futuristic flourishes. "This is Your World" ends the adventure with a command to reclaim the world.
emilie Simon is equal parts breathtaking grandeur and bewitching intimacy.. She blazes her own trail aesthetically, incorporating vintage clothing or up and coming designers to more established names, toying with fashion as she does with sounds.
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