EMILY KRAEMER

(Record of the week - Cat Fish Bird) "Emily Kraemer deserves to be record of the week for her delicate grey handmade album cover alone. The songwriter who hails from Camden, brings a sense of clarity and peace to her songs. Cat Fish Bird is a gentle 10-track acoustic album that makes clever use of beautiful strings layered over piano and calls for a second listen."

Roisin Gadelrab - Camden New Journal Summer 2011

"Delicate Delight"

"Delicate confessional material from singer/writer/pianist Emily who draws you in with her sweet and engaging vocals, yet remains unafraid of relating her experiences with humour and a rare honesty. Grandma features an intriguing lyric atop its quietly anthemic arrangement: "we thought that she looked like Hitler, we were quite glad when she died, although I know that isn't nice". This precedes a gorgeous and fetching track, Strange Things, a blend which encapsulates Emily's disarming range and skill. One to watch.

Keith Ames - Musician Magazine Autumn 2009

"Good vocabulary is an understated virtue in pop. Bravo, then for singer-songwriter Emily Kraemer, who knows some big fancy words, and a lot of little crude ones too - never have the words "twat", "bum" and "boobs" been so silkily delivered as on this collection of mild-mannered anti-folk confessionals. Downy soft piano and chiorgirl vocals are enhanced by the nice deployment of strings and horns, handclaps and maracas. There's also a polite, climate-controlled atmosphere containing nothing likely to needlessly awaken any sleeping invalids you my have staying with you. Inspiration-wise, it's all very Isobel Campbell, which is fine, but for more carnivorous palates there's also the occasional tabasco dash of New York kook Regina Spektor, nowhere more so than in the jocular "Dog". We await the breakthrough album with interest."

Anna Britten - Venue Magazine

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