Exile in the outer ring

"South Dakota's Erika M Anderson continues to mine the fraught terrain between the topical and personal on her third album ... Exile is the sound of an unflinching, old-school, outsider-punk voice rising to modern challenges".

"Here, that displacement lurches into the real world: in parking lots, outside casinos, inside bedrooms, under the harsh rays of the sun, among trash-talking dudes. And while EMA still swirls blasted riffs around her and slams us back with aftershock drums, this time she stands visibly before us, blueprints and implements of destruction in clear sight".

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"Erika M. Anderson's third solo album is a surreal and powerful story about political alienation. Her character-driven songs of noise, folk, and pop music thrum with rage and fear".

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