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”The music of country balladeers in the Elysian Fields in the afterglow of a mildly apocalyptic future, the dogged hum of space cowgirls long after the range went galactic, (way past folk gone electric), the music dreams the dream of all the places I want to end up in the end of the long day’s journey into night and never really do.” – Review of the Ecce show from Andrew Berardini / Art Slant 8/2010 (Ecce is a new collaboration I have with Ezra Buchla)
Interview with Daiana Feuer for the New Los Angeles Folk Festival, 8/7/2010
“Emily Lacy: Step Away from the Robe” LA Record, 1/14/10
“Mysterious Moaning Hermit’s Cabin at LACMA: Emily Lacy’s Temples of the Mind” Gendy Alimurung, LA WEEKLY 1/21/10
“Inside the Temple of the Mind” Scott Tennent for UNFRAMED, the LACMA blog 1/18/10
“Two New LACMA Structures are Definitely Not Starchitecture” 1/18/10
“LACMA Has the Best Art Thing in LA Right Now”, Marshall Astor 1/6/10
“Last Night: Emily Lacy’s LACMA Performance” 12/7/09
“Emily Lacy Debuts ‘Temples of the Mind’ at LACMA, Machine Project Celebrates Book Release” 12/4/09
“Listen to It if You Want to Listen to It”, Marianne Williams for Citizen LA, August 2009
“If Nashville Skyline Bob Dylan and Lion and the Cobra Sinead O Connor had a music baby, it would sound a lot like Emily Lacy.”
- Nikki Darling
“…intergalactic cowgirl in mourning.”
- Jessica Hopper
“Her voice is very pure soprano and bell-like–very unrock, very virginal–but there is a quiet darkness to her. The album is 60s folk notched up into a really ethereal level. Plus she uses ‘baby’ in every song.”
- Jessica Hopper
“The museum is electric tonight.”
- Ghendy Alimurung