Emily Wells Trio

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Hotel Cafe

Hollywood, CA

Monday, March 17 9 pm

St. Patty’s

album cover hand made by emily 15” x 15” collage: magazine and Chinese burning paper on poster board

Emily Wells has a quavering, angelic voice that has a little aura of strangeness. On Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks, she uses that voice to great effect as her band helps her create shuffling, creaking portraits of idiosyncratic characters. Have a listen.

-iTunes - July 2oo7

iTunes indie spotlight artist

“Multi-instrumentalist Emily Wells says she's ‘most influenced by the songs and voices of Nina Simone and Bob Dylan.’ You can hear it in Emily's music. She's a singer-songwriter with unconventional and often chilling vocals.”

- NPR - June 2oo7

“Like a mix of Nina Simone and Bjork, Wells bled emotion with every word.”

-Performer Magazine

Live Show Review-Sept 2oo7

“...songwriter Emily Wells wrote, produced, and mixed her most recent album, Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks. The result is an accomplished record that combines the curious vocal delivery and lyrical quirkiness of Joanna Newsom with the world-weary wisdom of Billie Holiday...”

-Flavorpill August 2oo7

"BEAUTIFUL SLEEPYHEAD AND THE LAUGHING YAKS has some of the best, most well written music and

gorgeous female vocals ever."

-Robert Shamlin, Reviewer Magazine

The album’s instrumental complexity sets it apart from more traditional folk... her vocals are playful, fluctuating between fragile and precious, mischievous and seductive... Wells’ Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks overflows with creativity and expressiveness, serving as the perfect reminder to never lose your creative control.

- Performer Magazine - May 2oo7

“EMILY WELLS, Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks: Multi-instrumental singer-songwriter Wells’ resolutely indie music (written, produced, & recorded by Wells in her own studio with bassist Joey Reina and drummer Sam Halterman) should appeal to fans of freak-folk and poetic lyrics that wind outside usual verse-chorus-bridge constructs amidst quirky arrangements of keyboards, xylophone, guitar and violin. Warbling over solo piano, Wells flirts with preciousness on the Joanna Newsom-esque “Supermarket,” but the unvarnished vulnerability of “My Tin Car” is genuinely affecting, as is “View From a Blind Eye”

-Pasadena Weekly-

Emily Wells is an artist to watch out for, and Beautiful Sleepyhead and The Laughing Yaks is a very impressive album... Fans of Leonard Cohen, Elliot Smith, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Joanna Newsom and others in similar veins will find Wells a pleasurable listen... Her music is a brand of folk that lies somewhere between country and pop. Production touches include sounds of marimba, xylophone, acoustic bass, piano, brush-hit drums and beautiful harmonies... Highly recommended listening for fans of the new folk.

Left Hip Magazine

This scarily beautiful CD caught my attention by being low-key, unobtrusive and quietly brilliant... ethereal deconstructed tunes with no fluff, no gimmicks, no cliches; how refreshing. There is not a lot of “big” sound to the songs within, but the ... [songs] tower over many studio-tweaked albums that are big on sound but small on esthetics... The closest thing I could think of to describe Ms. Wells is like a stripped-down Portishead mixed with a Neil Young/Nick Cave/Nick Drake sensibility.

-Reviewer Magazine-

To purchase albums and see lyrics visit the discography page.

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