“I won’t settle nope not a little bit.”
If it sounds like a proclamation it should, and it comes beautifully by way of Emma-Lee, Canadian singer-songwriter on “Where You Want To Be.” Since last time we heard from her she has managed to get exactly where she wants to be. Her debut album, Never Just A Dream, which was given 4/4 stars from the Toronto Star—and also fared quite nicely with Oxyfication—is a brilliant beginning-to-end coming-of-age listening experience that defies genre classification. For the better part of the two years leading …

A clever songwriter with a classically divine voice Toronto, Canada’s Emma-Lee spins songs of mass seduction on her debut album, Never Just A Dream. Built from ambivalent tales of heartbreak and redemption that everyone who has loved has gone through, the songs are like sonic submersibles, delving their way into the parts of you that make you tick. The catchy lyrics and osmotic melodies follow you and before you know it you’re bopping right along.
The luscious landscape of “That Sinking Feeling” sets the proper mood for what you’re going to …

In a radio world of shrill and shit, finding something of substance is like finding the needle in a Goliath-sized haystack. It seems it’s easier to win the lottery than to find something real to listen to; something with emotion, and substance, that tells a story of that place you’ve been to and couldn’t quite put your finger on, or forget. But that place you’ve been looking for the road map to for as long as you can remember.
For me, I was sitting in a hotel room in Portland, Maine, …