Emperor X

Emperor X
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About the artist

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

Top songs

  1. Erica Western Teleport
  2. Allahu Akbar
  3. Canada Day
  4. Wasted on the Senate Floor
  5. Sig Alert
  6. A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp
  7. Compressor Repair
  8. Defiance (for Elise Sunderhuse)
  9. 10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Resettlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don't Change Color, Kitty)
  10. €30,000
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  1. The Magnetic Media Storage Practices of Rural Pakistan
  2. Schopenhauer In Berlin
  3. Anti-Rage
  4. Sincerely, H. C. Pregerson
  5. Sad React
  6. Erica Western Geiger Counter
  7. Oversleepers International
  8. Tanline Debris
  9. Freeway in Heaven
  10. Low Orbit Ion Cannon
  11. False Metal
  12. Raytracer
  13. Laminate Factory
  14. Brown Recluse
  15. Communists in Luxury
  16. Sfearion
  17. Shut Shut Up
  18. Right to the Rails
  19. The Citizens of Wichita
  20. Exterminata Beat
  21. God Save Coastal Dorset
  22. Riot for Descendant Command
  23. Rojava Punks
  24. Use Your Hands
  25. Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan!
  26. Warmth Perimeter (feat. Stephen Steinbrink)
  27. Superbus
  28. The Crows of Emmerich
  29. Go-Captain and Pinlighter
  30. Stars
  31. Bashling
  32. Filene's Basement
  33. 5-Hour Energy, Poland, 2017
  34. Edgeless
  35. At a Rave with Nicolas Sarkozy
  36. Pissing With the Flashlight On
  37. Unified Field
  38. The Anthem of the Greater McMurdo Station Chamber of Commerce
  39. Fierce Resource Allocation
  40. A Mouthful of Increasingly-Dangerous Substances
  41. H.M.S. Blank Mediterranean
  42. Florencia Tropicana
  43. Ainseley
  44. coast to Coast
  45. Hummingbird
  46. Erica Western Teleport Geiger Counter
  47. Feeling Nothing
  48. A Hole in the Earth's Spin Tone
  49. Unworthiness Drones
  50. Do Not Claim You Honor Them, You Do Not Know How to Honor Them
  51. Spieltier
  52. Constantly Constantly Radio's On
  53. Line Go Up Line Go Down
  54. Daytrader Stadium
  55. F-R-E-S-N-E-L Licenseur
  56. Hey, Where Did You Put My Stimulus Check?
  57. Intracellular
  58. Ostrich Toss
  59. Cybertruck
  60. Swim Laws
  61. RING 1A: The Orlando Sentinel Press Operator Union Rally Song
  62. RING 1B: Subsumed Class War
  63. I Am a Beached Whale
  64. garbage Shaft Floor-By-Floor
  65. Hallelujah
  66. Also Unified Field
  67. Gamma Globulin
  68. Simulated Geological Aeolian Warning System
  69. RING 2A: Proving the Politburo Right
  70. RING 2B: A.I.
  71. Addison Aceh
  72. Raytrancer
  73. AloalocularL.A.
  74. RING 3A: Repo Browser vs. Schengen Overstay
  75. Everyone in Jacksonville
  76. Please Do Not Punch The Horse In The Throat
  77. RING 3D: Kafka Goes to Primark
  78. RING 3C: Sarkozy Replies
  79. Hardwood Floor Servant
  80. The Ballad of H.P.A.E. Local 5085
  81. Falklands/Malvinas
  82. Approximately Nine Billion Tigers
  83. RING 3B: Todos Somos Caribeños
  84. Petroleum Caliphate
  85. Island-Long Dirt Dealership
  86. F-R-E-S-M-E-L Liemseur
  87. Bleib Wo Du Bist
  88. Renee Nicole Nicole Renee
  89. Extremely Lossy-Compressed 10,000-Year A Cappella Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don't Change Color, Kitty)
  90. Rinseley

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