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# NEW ALBUM: Emika - Drei
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/2015513new-album-emika-drei/
- Published: 2015-05-14T01:41:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-05-14T01:41:49.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, #oliver-2, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

![](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/4fa3199ee4b068df94b4cbaf/52a7ae2ae4b077af2713ad5e/5553f7e5e4b09be6e539408e/1431566317278//img.jpg)

Once you start counting your albums, it is probably difficult to stop – although [Emika](https://www.facebook.com/emikamusic) may run out of languages for her next release: *Drei* is German for three and consistent with her chosen home of Berlin, Germany. Consistent is also the music on it, in a good way. She keeps her more experimental projects to a separate line of records, like the purely acoustic [*Klavirni*](http://www.glamglare.com/music/2015/1/27/new-music-emika-klavirni?rq=klavirni) earlier this year and returns with *Drei* to her main line of -electronic- sound.

The cover of *Drei* depicts Emika, the ice queen, well fitting to the predominant sentiment of her songs: cold passion. We get a lot of that right in the first two songs, *Battles* and *My Heart Bleeds Melody*: her signature, deadpan vocal delivery, synthetic, popping beats and wailing synth pads. I like *Battles* in particular because of it’s 80s, almost Kraftwerk-y vibe. But she also takes some left turns: *Miracles* is split in two parts and the first one includes a male voice (a real one as far as I can tell), which Emika duets with. Then there is *Without Expression*, which strays away farthest from her musical comfort zone: for once it has a real guitar in it, but it also drifts close to some sort of twisted lounge jazz.

After *Klavirni*, *Drei* is the second album she released on her own label Emika Records (the first two records were on Ninja Tunes) and it feels somewhat liberated from consensus over its predecessor *Dva*. At 34 minutes it is a short, intense listen that wants to be repeated. I’m curious where Emika goes from here.

*Drei* is out now on [Emika Records](http://emikarecords.com/?ref=glamglare.com) and will be hopefully be available on vinyl next weekend in New York. Find it on [Bandcamp](https://emika-official.bandcamp.com/?ref=glamglare.com), [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/drei/id979238684?ref=glamglare.com) or [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/55dc9GhgG3WytgARSnXmZe?ref=glamglare.com).

Here’s her self-recorded video for *My Heart Bleeds Melody*: