I was just talking about how badly I missed getting new music from EMA. Past Life Martyred Saints , the solo debut from former Gowns leader Erika M. Anderson, is still one of my favorite albums of this century, and the two that followed were great, too. Right now, we're coming up on a decade since the release of Exile In The Outer Ring , the most recent EMA album. So it's extremely cool to see her randomly showing up again with a Motels cover that she recorded for an art piece.

I'm pretty sure the last thing that Erika M. Anderson released under the EMA name was a Modest Mouse cover from a 2021 Under The Radar compilation. In 2023, she started a supergroup called Thrash Palace with Talk Normal's Sarah Register and XBXRX's Vice Cooler, and they released a very cool two-song single on Sub Pop but then nothing else.…