Empara Mi’s Suitcase Full Of Sins plays out like an epic, choose your own adventure film

Although philharmonic orchestras are currently ceasing live shows around the country, you still have the opportunity to experience a soundtrack to one of the greatest films never made. Empara Mi's new project Suitcase Full Of Sins opens with a minimal prologue ("Wanderlust") about starting a new adventure on her own. This quickly reveals itself to be a dark path ("Ditch") that continues into a chaotic spiral ("WYGD") and ends with a love story. The lush production makes full use typically found in a cinematic score with Empara Mi's dense voice neatly layered on top.

In an email, she explained the inspiration for the project: “Suitcase Full Of Sins is a compilation of all of my demons over the past five years. I wanted to pour all the fractured states of my mind into the music, hence the journey between chaos and complete solitude but always with a side of EXTRA. I was lucky enough to work with some incredible producers, Andrew Dawson (Kanye West, Childish Gambino) and Owen Cutts, to create a world around the songs with no fear of genre, which is why each song feels more like a scene from a movie as they each play their own role in the album.”

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