Having been lauded as the next big thing of 2007 one has to wonder where Emmy the Great has gone, three years on? The Japanese Born, British based singer song writer, known for her quirky anti- folk tunes, is as she insouciantly responds holed away “penning her second album”.

Emmy aka, Emma Lee Moss self released her debut album ‘First Love’ to much fanfare, but it was as she admits the bands greatest challenge having to release it off their own backs. Not least, because she resolved to only use bad equipment so it wouldn’t sound too ‘hi-fi’. 

When asked as to what motivates her to keep on truckin in the light of such despondent days she responds in an ever deprecating demeanor “The absolute conviction that nothing I’ve done before is any good!”

One gets the impression that unlike what was suggested in the press, Emmy was not left behind by all her fellow new wave anti-folk singer contemporaries, such as Laura Marling, but rather she moved at her own pace, thus making for a more comfortable move into the mainstream “It doesn’t feel very different. Because it’s not been a case of one ‘big break’ moment, getting from the first demo to here feels very natural. It’s like how nobody notices themselves getting fat because it happens bit by bit , then one day you look in the mirror and think ‘woops’”.

For a girl who only started a band to hang out with other bands, what does she makes of where she is now “I didn’t imagine any of this. The things that I picture or wish for in the future are abstract. I don’t see myself as a whole or what my job is or how successful I will be at it, but I do see my hands at some kind of computer keyboard, in a house that’s my own. Sometimes I can hear children in the other room. I guess that means I will be a negligent mother’.

If bad mommies make for good musicians, who is on her musical reproduction wish list?  “I’ve just gotten over the lifetime’s achievement of singing with Ash. I think I’m done!”

And her fears for the future? “The same as everyone – making the wrong decisions, letting the bad guys win; hope I don’t make bad decisions, hope it doesn’t turn out that I’m the bad guy – that kind of thing”.

If as she said, she wanted her first album to sound like it was “recorded in a refrigerator”, can fans expect something of a cool insidious hum off her next one? Either tactfully not wishing to reveal anything or stumped by the pressures of second album syndrome she replies ‘At this point – halfway through writing the album – I would say, ‘I don’t know”.  So while fans of Emmy can rest assured that she will be returning, we are reduced to waiting, indefinitely.