Photo by George Clarke.
Earlier this month, Emma Ruth Rundle released "Pump Organ Song," a stripped-down, somber single that traded the piano and acoustic guitar from her 2021 album Engine Of Hell for the track's titular instrument. She's now brought back her six-string for two quiet, folky cuts to round off her Orpheus Looking Back EP.
Out today via Sargent House, the new tape comprises leftovers from the Engine Of Hell sessions. "Pump Organ Song" is sandwiched between the new tracks, "Gilded Cage" and "St. Non." The former, written in Berlin, is a live favorite of Rundle's that she says was "an outlier and couldn't make the cut but deserved to live beyond the live show somehow.” The latter, written in Wales "after visiting the eponymous well, chapel and spring at Saint David in Pembrokeshire," she explains, was originally EOH's closer but was omitted in favor of the devastating "In My Afterlife," where the published version of the album found its final resting place.
Listen below.
