Emily Reo Shares GHOSTING New Album Out 4/12 via Carpark Records

Emily Reo has shared "Ghosting," the latest from her anticipated upcoming album, Only You Can See It, available for pre-order now, is due April 12th via Carpark Records. "Ghosting" is Reo's most personal song to date - as she sings about tracing her anxiety and sobriety, her words are clearer than usual, like a voice that has been yearning to escape.

Of the song, she says: "'Ghosting' was written during a time when I felt completely incapacitated by my own mind -- my struggles with mental illness had reached an all time high, which resulted in me being too afraid to do anything. I more or less trapped myself inside the fabricated safety of my bedroom and stopped living my life. To me, 'Ghosting' represents the purgatorial space between being alive and living. If you're not deriving pleasure from anything, participating in experiences or able to break out of the cycle of going through the motions it can feel like there's a disconnection between your mind and body. 'Ghosting' explores what beyond a beating heart is necessary for living."

The FADER, who premiered the track today, is saying it's "like standing at an old-school pinball machine and watching it light up in front of you - an entrancing and wonderful sensation."

Additionally, Emily Reo has announced some tour dates including 2 record release shows. All dates below.

LISTEN TO PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SINGLE "STRAWBERRY"

TOUR DATES:

3/7 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade ^

4/3 - Gainesville, FL @ The Atlantic

4/4 - Orlando, FL @ The Social

4/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

4/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Junior High * +

4/14 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord *

4/16 - Portland, OR @ TBA *

4/18 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Theater *

4/24 - Washington, D.C. @ Comet Ping Pong *

4/26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right * +

4/27 - Philadelphia, PA @ Philamoca *

4/29 - Cleveland, OH @ Mahall's Locker Room *

4/30 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout *

5/2 - Toronto, ON @ Burdock *

5/3 - Montreal, QC @ La Sotterenea *

5/4 - Boston, MA @ Lilypad *

^ w/ Bellows

* w/ Foxes In Fiction

+ Only You Can See It Record Release show

EARLY PRAISE FOR ONLY YOU CAN SEE IT:

"A vibrant and immersive anthem... 'Strawberry' finds Reo at her catchiest, she uses that glossy sheen to drive home a bigger statement." -NPR

"Brooklyn's Emily Reo wrote a song about toxic masculinity, and it is a bright, and cheerful f you that anybody can relate to." -The FADER

"Emily Reo lights up on her newest single... When Reo shouts 'I don't owe you anything!,' it sounds like a cause for celebration." -Jezebel

"'Strawberry' is the most confident and open song Reo's put out yet... Shows off the outward bounds that Reo has been pushing against over the last few years." -Stereogum

"A delicious pop track... Listening carefully to the lyrics, though, you can tell this is an artist who knows how to package very visceral human experiences-in this case, misogyny-into a song that'll be stuck in your head for days." -Paste

"Her penchant for homespun, adventurous recording reaches its natural peak on her latest offering... A delightfully assured song that showcases an artist stretching her legs out and owning her own space." -UPROXX

ABOUT EMILY REO:

Emily Reo has been recording and touring independently for over a decade. Starting with 2009's Minha Gatinha, a self-released collection of home-recorded droning noise-pop, she's continuously released a slow drip of pop experiments via artist-operated imprints. Her second full-length, 2013's critically acclaimed Olive Juice, was a progression towards bright, kaleidoscopic synthesizer layers and loops, with prismacolor melodies upon melodies; her songs depicting the beauty of nature through vocoder processing.

In 2016, she returned, transforming her vocoder-harmonies into something even more meticulous and mesmerizing with her "Spell" single. Reo had always gestured towards the tension between organic and robotic sounds in her work, but with "Spell" that duality underscored an inherent solemness and depth of emotion in her voice-a dynamic that comes to a head on her forthcoming 2019 full-length.

Over the past few years, Reo's live shows have notably evolved from solo sets where she would play electronics alongside soft visual collages, to explosive three-piece endeavors full of expressive drumming and keytar soloing-a shift that speaks to the evolution of the project since Olive Juice. With each new body of work, Reo has increasingly pulled back the haze, sharpening her pop vision; Only You Can See It is her most fully-realized collection to date, with her most intricate lyricism and dynamic songwriting. Reo's background as a visual artist continues to play out over her sprawling pop songs: her ear for negative space, for shading and saturating, for shifting between the bright and the subdued.

Recorded at various studios, apartments and homes around New York-notably, it was partially recorded with Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez at Gravesend Recordings-Only You Can See It is Reo's Carpark debut, following releases with Orchid Tapes and Elestial Sound. Over the years, Reo's self-booked tours have brought her to community spaces and all-ages venues around the U.S. and internationally. Reo has been inspired by the many places she's called home: Orlando, Boston, Los Angeles, Montreal. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

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