Calling to mind the work of Adrianne Lenker, Laura Marling or even a folkier Norah Jones, Emily Hines' music fuses lo-fi acoustic arrangements with tender, intimate lyrics. After a small batch of self-released material under an alias in the late 2010s, the singer-songwriter penetrated the critical consciousness with her full-length These Days in 2025, featuring the songs "Cowgirl Suit" and "My Own Way."
Hines grew up on a farm in rural Oxford, Ohio in the early 21st century and once recalled a formative childhood moment of writing songs as a gift to her mother, who'd just ret...