Emma Lee Moss, aka Emmy The Great, is a 23-year-old singer-songwriter from London via Japan who played her first gig three years ago this Halloween and has since built a passionate following via tours with Bright Eyes, Martha Wainwright and Jamie T.

Here are five things you should know about the girl with the sweet voice and devilish lyrics.

SHE IS NOT THE NEW KATE NASH
"I had a manager who was trying to force me into following in the footsteps of Kate Nash or Laura Marling.

It was such a dark time. He was like, 'Right, we need choruses' and I was like, 'Ha! Choruses! Have you heard my music?' "I'm not 100 per cent sure he had actually. When he got me a singles deal and I said, 'Wicked, how did you manage that?' he said, 'Oh, I just sent them your picture'.

"That's why I ended up making my last record, the My Bad EP, on my own."

HER BEST SONGS ARE 'FILTHY OR PRE-MENSTRUAL'
"My baby cousin's favourite song is Edward Is Dead Wood. It's about having sex with someone at a funeral.

"She's, like, three. I really don't see the point in writing happy songs.

It's because I'm hyper-aware of the possibilities of bad things happening, and I'm thinking about that all the time, so I might as well put them to music and get over it.

"I've got one happy song, Hold On To What You Own, but it's really about the apocalypse. It's upbeat in a global warming sort of way."

HER NEW SINGLE, GABRIELLE, IS ABOUT A CUTE FAN
"This boy called Gabrielle, who goes to my old boarding school, looked me up on MySpace. He wrote me a letter from school on the school stationery.

"I wrote back and when we met in real life I thought, 'He's kind of hot!' "I said I'd write him a song but I haven't played it to him 'cos it just happened to turn into a cross between a love song and a period drama and now I'm embarrassed. He's 17, it's immoral!

"He hangs out in much cooler circles than me anyway so he would probably be, like, 'Yawn!'"

SHE BAKES A MEAN CAKE
"We used to sell cakes at our gigs. I'm best at banana bread with orange rind. But when we weren't rehearsing we were baking and when we weren't baking we were rehearsing, it became too much.

"Now I make bacon sandwiches for my keyboard player. Maybe I'm just going through a phase but I'm obsessed with those women's annuals from olden days that teach you how to cook and sew and make your own blusher. Me and my friends have started our own branch of WI and I'm the secretary."

SHE USED TO BE RUBBISH
"I totally have not always been able to sing. Three years ago I had the worst voice ever. But I didn't realise, I had blind faith. My first band was truly awful. We sang about Ann Robinson and The Weakest Link. "My dad came up to us after a gig and said, 'Are you sure you don't want to do something else?' "It was only two years after I started singing in public that I became good enough at music to realise I used to be rubbish."

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