Emoh is the first solo album from Lou Barlow

Lou Barlow

Louis Knox Barlow is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion. Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

, the Sebadoh

Sebadoh

Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording...

 and Folk Implosion frontman. The album was released in 2005 and recorded at The Beech House Recording Megaplex (2004) in Wedgewood Sound, Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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, United States

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Rolling Stone

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(No. 967, p. 84) gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and noted: "[F]ull of quiet lyricism and Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

 beauty..." Uncut

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(p. 108) gave 4 stars out of 5 and said: "Using acoustic guitar, piano and vocals, he delivers 14 sweetly somber neo-folk tunes that reveal just how subtly persuasive the man's influence really is."

Track listing

1. "Holding Back the Year" – 3:30
2. "Home" – 3:23
3. "Caterpillar Girl" – 3:35
4. "Legendary" – 4:11
5. "Royalty" – 3:45
6. "Puzzle" – 3:36
7. "If I Could" – 3:42
8. "Monkey Begun" – 3:02
9. "Mornings After Me" – 3:44
10. "Round-N-Round" – 2:34
11. "Mary" – 3:10
12. "Confused" – 3:45
13. "Imagined Life" – 4:14
14. "The Ballad of Daykitty" – 4:03

Personnel

• Lou Barlow
  Lou Barlow
  Louis Knox Barlow is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion. Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
  
   – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, baritone guitar, bass, piano, vocals, percussion, synthesizer, xylophone, glockenspiel, backing vocals, harp
• Erin Hugely – cello
• Wally Gagel
  Wally Gagel
  Walton Steven “Wally” Gagel is an American record producer, songwriter, engineer and musician. He came into prominence in 1996 for his work on the Billboard Top 40 hit Natural One by the band Folk Implosion....
  
   – synthesizer, rhythm programming
• Russell Pollard
  Russell Pollard
  Russell "Russ" Pollard is an American rock musician, who has been a member of Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion, Alaska!, and Everest.-Biography:...
  
   – drums
• Imaad Wasif
  Imaad Wasif
  Imaad Wasif is a Canadian singer, guitarist and songwriter whose music combines elements of both folk and rock music. Wasif’s music has been described as “unbelievably intense with sparkling, raga-influenced guitar and a mystic bent.”...
  
  – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, drums, backing vocals
• Mark Scwaber – bass, electric Guitar
• Abby Barlow – cello
• Jason Loewenstein – knee slapping, drums
• Carey Kotsionis – vocal harmonies
• Adam Harding – vocal harmonies

Trivia

• The word "emoh" means "unwilling" in Indonesian.
• "Emoh" is "home" backwards, which is the title of the second song on the album.
• The song "Legendary" appeared on the FOX show, "The O.C." in its second season.
• The song Morning after me appeared in the last episode of season three of tv series 90210