Former anti-folker Emma-Lee Moss dropped a stunner at the end of 2014 with Swimming Pool, a spare synth-hymn to lust and wanderlust. She described that song as “a raised bar that I spent three years chasing”; Second Love is a benchmark smashed and an affecting portrait of a millennial lost soul. Songs such as Algorithm (“I hope it leads me to you”) and Hyperlink (“Walk me through the screens/ Tell me all your broken dreams”), with its sparse, hazy guitar, evoke the loneliness of digital life in the city beautifully. Gradually, alienation resolves into the hope of Dance W Me, where her flatmates’ sampled happily laughing voices supply the chorus and, finally, Lost in You’s loved-up declaration: “Once I was a flight risk… but soon I will be safe.”
