Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton is an indie rock solo project of Emily Hai… Read Full Bio ↴Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton is an indie rock solo project of Emily Haines (born January 1974 in New Delhi, India). She is the vocalist, keyboardist and co-songwriter of the Canadian band Metric and a member of the group Broken Social Scene. The music released as Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton could be described as intimate and mellow, featuring piano-driven tracks with string and horn arrangements.
On 26 September 2006, Haines released the album Knives Don't Have Your Back on Last Gang Records. The album was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over the previous four years, and features contributors including Sparklehorse's Scott Minor, Broken Social Scene's Justin Peroff, Stars' Evan Cranley, and Metric's Jimmy Shaw.
Though it took Haines four years to complete the album, the singer says she'd been plotting this for years. "When I was a little kid," she said in a statement, "I would creep downstairs to the piano and write rudimentary songs about imaginary places. I'm told the first song I ever wrote was a love song to a cranberry tree. I always used the mute pedal. I hated the idea of anybody hearing me.
"Everywhere I've lived while working with Metric, I've written songs on the piano and played them for no one," she continued. "On the advice of a friend, I decided I'd better start recording them before they were forgotten."
Among those songs are a track that was written while Haines was studying electroacoustics in Montreal while some were recorded in Toronto, Canada in the winter of 2002, shortly after the death of Haines' father.
Official site: http://www.emilyhaines.com
On 26 September 2006, Haines released the album Knives Don't Have Your Back on Last Gang Records. The album was written and recorded in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, and New York over the previous four years, and features contributors including Sparklehorse's Scott Minor, Broken Social Scene's Justin Peroff, Stars' Evan Cranley, and Metric's Jimmy Shaw.
Though it took Haines four years to complete the album, the singer says she'd been plotting this for years. "When I was a little kid," she said in a statement, "I would creep downstairs to the piano and write rudimentary songs about imaginary places. I'm told the first song I ever wrote was a love song to a cranberry tree. I always used the mute pedal. I hated the idea of anybody hearing me.
"Everywhere I've lived while working with Metric, I've written songs on the piano and played them for no one," she continued. "On the advice of a friend, I decided I'd better start recording them before they were forgotten."
Among those songs are a track that was written while Haines was studying electroacoustics in Montreal while some were recorded in Toronto, Canada in the winter of 2002, shortly after the death of Haines' father.
Official site: http://www.emilyhaines.com
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Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton Lyrics
Crowd Surf Off a Cliff Cursed with a love that you can't express It's not for…
Detective Daughter She was calling around to find half an hour. She walked…
Doctor Blind The Lack of Light Hollow Sea Poison Beaches Limousines Tooth…
Mostly Waving Young, Thought as I was Thought as I was Thought as I was Do…
Nothing & Nowhere Sketch of your faces I still don't know you, you…
Our Hell First went wrong is hard to find We're paralyzed, we apologi…
Reading in Bed Who's in a bad mood, who's in a taxi? Turning the…
The Last Page Hover through the foggy vapours, Until I see you in a…
The Lottery I only wanted what everyone wanted Since bras started burnin…
The Maid Needs A Maid Bros before hos Disagree on the sidelines. Fight for a fee, …
Winning To never open a book, always reading a magazine Outspend, be…
We also have lyrics for these tracks by Emily Haines:
Crowd Surf Off A Cliff Cursed with a love that you can't express It's not for…
Detective Daughter She was calling around to find half an hour. She walked…
Doctor Blind The Lack of Light Hollow Sea Poison Beaches Limousines Tooth…
Mostly Waving Young, Thought as I was Thought as I was Thought as I was Do…
Nothing & Nowhere Sketch of your faces I still don't know you, you…
Our Hell First went wrong is hard to find We're paralyzed, we apologi…
Reading in Bed Who's in a bad mood, who's in a taxi? Turning the…
The Last Page Hover through the foggy vapours, Until I see you in a…
The Lottery I only wanted what everyone wanted Since bras started burnin…
The Maid Needs a Maid Bros before hos Disagree on the sidelines. Fight for a fee, …
Winning To never open a book, always reading a magazine Outspend, be…
We also have lyrics for these tracks by The Soft Skeleton:
Crowd Surf Off A Cliff Cursed with a love that you can't express It's not for…
Detective Daughter She was calling around to find half an hour. She walked…
Doctor Blind The Lack of Light Hollow Sea Poison Beaches Limousines Tooth…
Mostly Waving Young, Thought as I was Thought as I was Thought as I was Do…
Nothing & Nowhere Sketch of your faces I still don't know you, you…
Our Hell First went wrong is hard to find We're paralyzed, we apologi…
Reading In Bed Who's in a bad mood, who's in a taxi? Turning the…
The Last Page Hover through the foggy vapours, Until I see you in a…
The Lottery I only wanted what everyone wanted Since bras started burnin…
The Maid Needs A Maid Bros before hos Disagree on the sidelines. Fight for a fee, …
Winning To never open a book, always reading a magazine Outspend, be…