CaliforniaEMA · 2011

pitchfork

“"Fuck California, you made me boring." That's how you start a song. Erika M. Anderson used to wail out bruised, desperate koans like this as the leader of Gowns, and now she wails them out as herself. As a South Dakota transplant on the West Coast, Anderson knows more than most about displacement. And "California" is the shattered cry of someone living unmoored, trying to make sense of what's goin”