Standing well on her own two feet, Emma Ruth Rundle has released the first single from her forthcoming solo album, due out May 20 on Sargent House. She is best known for her work in Red Sparowes and Marriages, but this first listen feels like a necessary endeavor. The opening is wistful and ghostly, as her voice and guitar stand solitarily in reverberant space. The sparse arrangement pierces straight to the heart and leaves no room for doubt that her melancholy cries for comfort and redemption are an exorcism of sorts. Gently in the background, the strings moan like a tortured soul calling from the grave for deliverance. Her beautifully tortured cry of “please deliver me from all the evil I’ve done to myself and deliver me to arms I know so well” acts as a prologue to the story that is to unfold through the rest of her album. If these goosebumps are telling, it is sure to be amongst the top in those year end lists. - Jacqueline Caruso

This is debut music from the ethereal performer Emma Ruth Rundle. The video for “Arms I Know So Well” is a beautiful portrayal of solitude and living with one’s self, directed by Thomas McMahan. “Arms I Know So Well” is from her first album, called Some Heavy Ocean. Currently, she is on tour with Boris in her other project, a rock band called Marriages.

See All Marriages Tour dates
Aug 16 - Seattle, Wash. @ The Crocodile
Aug 17 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Rickshaw Theatre
Aug 18 - Portland, Ore. @ Doug Fir Lounge
Aug 20 - San Francisco, Calif. @ The Independent
Aug 21 - Santa Cruz, Calif. @ The Catalyst Atrium
Aug 22 - San Luis Obispo, Calif. @ SLO Brew

The music of Emma Ruth Rundle is nearly swallowed by darkness, but Rundle does not seem oppressed by it. Having toured with acts like Deafheaven and Earth, Rundle made her name performing mournful, minor key compositions, swelling with gothic drama. But to classify her music as macabre is to deny its cathartic, even uplifting qualities. On Marked for Death, the follow-up to 2014’s Some Heavy Ocean, Rundle upgrades that album’s gothic folk with a more colorful palette. Here, she strengthens the atmospheric guitar work that comprised her instrumental solo debut, Electric Guitar One, and enlivens her songs with anthemic, weightless choruses. And while her two previous solo releases, as well as her work in the noisy LA trio Marriages, set a precedent for Marked for Death’s more ambitious material, it doesn’t make the record feel any less thrilling. Each of its eight tracks showcase a songwriter testing the limits of her sound and redefining herself in the process.

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Sargent House is delighted to announce that Emma Ruth Rundle will be recording her debut solo album this year for release on Sargent House. Above is a video of her performing a new track “Oh Sarah"  live from the Glassroom. (Shot & Edited by Spencer Rollins)

Earlier this year we had Emma in the Glassroom performing with her band Marriages another song that will now be on her solo album called "Shadows of My Name” below. (Shot & Edited by David Romo)
Both Videos audio was recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Common for The Farm.



Get to know Emma Ruth Rundle on the interwebs…
Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , Marriages , Red Sparowes , The Nocturnes

Check out Emma’s self Released Electric Guitar album HERE

Sargent House is delighted to announce our second annual Fall Tour lineup for 2014 featuring TTNG in the headline slot with direct support to be traded off each night between Mylets and Emma Ruth Rundle. So be sure to turn up  on time so you don’t miss any of these three great acts. The tour begins on October 20th in Santa Ana, CA and will travel across North America, with two Canadian stops in Montreal and Toronto, coming full circle and ending November 22nd back in California with the last show in Los Angeles. Beautiful poster art by Xavi at Error Design and we will have some available for purchase on the tour.

SARGENT HOUSE FALL 2014 TOUR
w/ TTNG, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & MYLETS
Oct 20 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Constellation Room
Oct 21 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock Live
Oct 22 - El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
Oct 23 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Oct 24 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
Oct 27 - Ybor City, FL @ Crowbar
Oct 29 - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Nov 02 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Nov 03 - Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
Nov 04 - New York City, NY @ The Studio at Webster Hall
Nov 05 - Hamden, CT @ The Space
Nov 06 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (Downstairs)
Nov 07 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz (formerly Il Motore)
Nov 08 - Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
Nov 10 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
Nov 11 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
Nov 12 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Nov 13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Demo
Nov 14 - Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
Nov 15 - Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater
Nov 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Shred Shed
Nov 18 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
Nov 19 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater
Nov 20 - San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
Nov 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (Early Show

See Full listing of TTNG Tour Dates & Details w/ Ticket links HERE
See Full listing of MYLETS Tour Dates
See Full listing of EMMA RUTH RUNDLE Tour Dates

TTNG (F.K.A. This Town Needs Guns) live set from AudioTree 2013

Check out Emma Ruth Rundle live set from AudioTree 2014

Mylets live from Vancouver October 2013

We are delighted to have these three artists above heading out on tour together for this Fall’s Sargent House tour. TTNG will be headlining all the shows with Emma Ruth Rundle & Mylets switching it up each night on who will play the first and second slots. Below are the dates and links to tickets. We hope that you will go see all the bands and enjoy the shows! 

SEE ALL TOUR SHOW DATES & DETAILS HERE 

SARGENT HOUSE FALL 2014 TOUR
w/ TTNG, EMMA RUTH RUNDLE & MYLETS
Oct 20 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Constellation Room
Oct 21 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock Live
Oct 22 - El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
Oct 23 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Oct 24 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
Oct 27 - Ybor City, FL @ Crowbar
Oct 29 - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
Oct 30 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Nov 01 - Private College Show (TTNG Only)
Nov 02 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Nov 03 - Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
Nov 04 - New York City, NY @ The Studio at Webster Hall
Nov 05 - Hamden, CT @ The Space
Nov 06 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (Downstairs)
Nov 07 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz (formerly Il Motore)
Nov 08 - Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
Nov 10 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
Nov 11 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
Nov 12 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Nov 13 - St. Louis, MO @ The Demo
Nov 14 - Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
Nov 15 - Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater
Nov 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Shred Shed
Nov 18 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
Nov 19 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater
Nov 20 - San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
Nov 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo (Early Show)

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Emma Ruth Rundle is taking a moment to catch her breath. The singer/songwriter and member of Los Angeles shoegaze trio Marriages is laying low in Montana after several weeks of touring in Europe in support of Sargent House labelmates Wovenhand. She’s also nursing a head cold, but all things considered, she’s in a good place—spending time friends and family, surrounded by nature while she waits for her Portland apartment, currently being subleased, to be vacated.

Just one year ago, she found herself in a scenario almost the direct opposite of where she is right now. While finishing up the songs on her new album Marked For Death, she was living alone in the desert, in a bitter cold. She was playing and writing music every day, which when completed resulted in the heaviest album of her career—both sonically and emotionally. It’s a richly layered, often beautiful, sometimes harrowing document of a particularly dark year in Rundle’s life. Loosely speaking, the record finds her tackling love, loss, mental health, loneliness, death, self-destruction and a pervasive sense of doom in tones both elegant and immense. She’s hesitant to go into detail about the circumstances that informed Marked For Death, but in a phone conversation during her brief stay in Montana, she confirms that it’s all based in real-life events.

“The record is autobiographical,” she says. “We’ll just leave it at that.”

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This Friday, February 24, the WORLD AS WE KNOW IT will be IRREVOCABLY ALTERED. I know: that sounds a little dramatic… but hell, so do both this news story’s formidable, Sargent House-affiliated protagonists, Emma Ruth Rundle and Jaye Jayle.

Given that you’re such a cool person, general fan of mold-shattering independent music, and fanatical follower of TMT, you probably remember near the end of last year when we told you that Jayle and Rundle would soon be teaming up for a new six-song split EP, titled The Time Between Us, featuring three brand new tracks from each artist.

And, well, guest what? Yup, this coming Friday totally marks the release date for that very special EP. Think of it, readers: all of Rundle’s “lonely tones,” “dusty landscapes,” “swells of reverb,” and “sparkles of lyrical intensity” finally united with Jayle’s bizarre cross-mutations of outerspace-oriented Krautrock and grave-digger country-blues.

Gee, sounds utterly amazing, no? Toooooo baaaaad that Friday is still an excruciating three days wait from now, isn’t it? Oh well, though. Nothing can be done about that… OH WAIT, FUCK THAT: Pre-order your own highly durable and/or extremely portable copy of The Time Between Us now on your choice of gritty vinyl, shiny CD, or iTunes-y digital. And, just for being such a cool person, general fan of mold-shattering independent music, and fanatical follower of TMT, I’m happy to announce that, as of right now, you can stream the entire EP till your heart’s content via the player down below while you wait for it to show up at your door/download queue! (Also, to help you get even more of your Jayle/Rundle fix, keep a-scrollin’ on down after the tracklisting to peep the plethora of tour dates that one or both of these spooky songsmiths has coming up on his/her spring agenda.) See, what’d I tell you? Consider all your shit: IRREVOCABLY ALTERED.

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The Time Between Us is the title of a new 6-song split EP between Sargent House alum Emma Ruth Rundle (Red Sparowes, Marriages) and the label’s newest addition, Louisville’s Jaye Jayle (featuring Evan Patterson of Young Widows). The EP boasts three previously unreleased tracks from each artist.

Due for release on 24^th February, the EP acts as an excellent introduction to Jaye Jayle and a timely reminder of how hauntingly majestic Emma Ruth Rundle’s work is. ‘The Distance’ is trademark ERR, minimalist yet haunting backdrop allows her vocal to excel. As with much of her work it’s the vocal that suckers you in with the atmospheric laidback musical accompaniment making it all a little more chilling. ‘To Fold In England (Hours)’ does the admirable job of sounding like ERR most tortured and fragile piece of work. It aches and pulses in waves of emotion. Finishing off the ERR track is an acoustic version of ‘Hand Of God’, one of the standout tracks from the superb Marked for Death it’s another gem.

In all honesty this was our first exposure to Jaye Jayle, and its impressive stuff.  Perhaps the press release sums it up best… Though possessing a distinct Southern filter, Jaye Jayle’s stripped-back noir in fact owes more to Krautrock than the blues, while Evan Patterson’s baritone croon brings to mind Angels of Light-era Michael Gira. Jaye Jayle unsurprisingly count Spacemen 3, Neu!, and Lungfish among their varied influences, while arriving at a sound wholly unusual in the American underground. To make that a more accessible, how about Seasick Steve with a smattering of Kraftwerk? ‘About Time You Came To Me’ throbs and burns with a latent aggression, feeling like it should explode, yet it self-restrains and bubbles against the groove. ‘Unnecessarily’ finds Patterson channelling his inner Iggy Pop over a rhythm made menacing by its sheer unwillingness to break form. Closer ‘Hope Faith County’ is hypnotic and assured. Accomplished and captivating.

Get reacquainted with Emma Ruth Rundle and introduced to Jaye Jayle.

(via Alt Dialogue)

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