Emilie Autumn
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Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn Liddell was born in Santa Monica, California, and started playing music at age four. Her debut album "Enchant" came out in 2000. She's known for...

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Emilie Autumn's gothic chamber pop and literary hauntings

A classically trained violinist who builds dark, theatrical worlds from Tennyson poems and personal isolation.

If you want to hear her whole thing in one shot, put on "Opheliac." For something quieter but just as haunted, try "Asleep."

She takes Victorian literature and turns it into something immediate and unsettling. The song "Shalott" adapts Tennyson's poem about a woman trapped in a tower, but Autumn makes it feel like a current diary entry. Her 2006 album "Opheliac" gives a name to that specific kind of unraveling, and tracks like "Chambermaid" show how she builds entire gothic scenes with just voice and strings.

Her debut album "Enchant" arrived in 2000, establishing her classical-folk foundation. By 2006's "Opheliac," she had fully embraced the darker, theatrical sound that defines her, which continued through albums like 2009's "Fight Like a Girl."

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Emilie Autumn Liddell was born in Santa Monica, California, and started playing music at age four. Her debut album "Enchant" came out in 2000. She's known for songs like "Shalott," which adapts Tennyson's poem about a woman trapped in a tower, and "Opheliac," which appeared on her 2006 album of the same name.

Her music draws from classical, folk, and rock, with influences ranging from Chopin to Björk. The 2009 album "Fight Like a Girl" includes the track of that name. Autumn's work often deals with themes of isolation, mental states, and female experience, delivered with a theatrical, sometimes gothic sensibility.

She has faced criticism for her approach to difficult subjects, but maintains a dedicated following. Other songs in her catalog include "Photographic Memory" and "Chambermaid."

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