Stuck In Our Head: "Paper Forest (In the Afterglow of Rapture)" - Emmy The Great

We saw Emmy The Great live before we heard her music and we weren't overly impressed. She was so shy and unassuming that we felt we might as well turn around and stare at the back of the tent we were in, and just listen. The music was beyond lovely but we weren't sold. Fortunately we are massive fans of her on record and her second album, Virtue (out now, do buy it), is truly swoony and brilliant. A mixture of mythology, religious iconography and palaeontology (it opens with a song called "Dinosaur Sex"), the album is a folky, restless, charming thing. It's funny and self-aware but also deceptively deep. Not 'deep' in the cringe-inducing 'meaningful' sense of the word, but the more literal one. It literally feels, despite its sparse and simple arrangements, quite spacey and dark, like a big, still, musty forest.

The song above is one of its many highlights and has a gorgeous chorus that appears out of nowhere. Enjoy.