Emperor X
Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. … Read Full Bio ↴Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. R. Matheny. The project often performs and records with little more than Matheny on an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone, but sometimes also employs large groups of musicians on percussion instruments, various electronic noisemakers, brass/woodwind/string ensembles, and traditional rock instruments.
The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise," and discuss subjects ranging from plate tectonics ("A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp"), paramilitary religious fanatics ("Allahu Akbar"), the nature of time as it relates to car accident casualties and the 2009 Port-au-Prince earthquake ("Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse)"), failed attempts to fix broken air conditioners (“Compressor Repair”), and mass transit ("Everyone in Jacksonville", "Right to the Rails" and "Edgeless").
Emperor X tours the United States very frequently, and has completed several small tours internationally including trips to Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise," and discuss subjects ranging from plate tectonics ("A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp"), paramilitary religious fanatics ("Allahu Akbar"), the nature of time as it relates to car accident casualties and the 2009 Port-au-Prince earthquake ("Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse)"), failed attempts to fix broken air conditioners (“Compressor Repair”), and mass transit ("Everyone in Jacksonville", "Right to the Rails" and "Edgeless").
Emperor X tours the United States very frequently, and has completed several small tours internationally including trips to Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
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Emperor X Lyrics
A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp A large headscarp slammed Concordia last night A wave of slu…
Ainseley I know I'm too old, and the youth group is…
Allahu Akbar Chalk in the riverbed was deposited by the ocean as it boi…
Bashling I wanted to falter you on the sunset. I wanted to…
Brown Recluse We're holding together well We're weathering the crisis of i…
Canada Day we met on the bus and it was canada day we crossed…
Edgeless You sleep dreamless on the watchtowerbaby, In the heart o…
Erica Western Geiger Counter With shaking hands She held the coinage Of a long-dead natio…
Erica Western Teleport i found a used organizer with a picture of a…
Exterminata Beat A termite burrows through a particle board. It's not the …
F-R-E-S-N-E-L Licenseur Let's hit the interstate. With a call sign like that, gir…
Fierce Resource Allocation Hey, look out! They found an active sect at the bridge. Th…
Filene's Basement I took the rain and made a shelter out of…
Go Captain and Pinlighter Pull out your pass and drive. Unmarried spieltiers don't hav…
Laminate Factory Every now and then I see the both of them Sprinting…
Low Orbit Ion Cannon Anonymous game to catch us pinning our next town We up…
Raytracer Did you ever get help? By far and away she's more…
Right to the Rails Adventist Christian planetarium sanctuary. Cut. Tremen…
Schopenhauer in Berlin Schopenhauer in Berlin Watched the metropolis collapse to th…
Sfearion Strange breed, rangefinder. I'm comatose. Trust, doubt…
Shut Shut Up Shut up. You're not dying inside. Shut closet, shut in. …
Sincerely H. C. Pregerson No ending (Hey!) I′m encased in your numb arms In the clutc…
Tanline Debris She's got house plants to keep her company Bought her a…
Use Your Hands I never saw another building like yours. It calls into qu…
Wasted on the Senate Floor We ran aground in the Philippines Interpreting what Henri Be…
€30,000 I owe €30, 000 to the German corporation That just cured…