Emily Wells, Lorna Dune

Emily Wells refuses to sell out. Even as a teenager, when music labels came knocking, she never gave into the commercialization of her sound. While it doesn’t seem like this one-woman wonder-act concept would transfer well to the stage, through the magic of looping machines it works. Combining violin melodies with haunting/wailing vocals, drums, keys, beat machine and guitar, Wells creates powerful music that manages to straddle the realms of futuristic and classical sounds. Wells released a new album, Promise, in January under her own label Thesis & Instinct, proving she continues to create art her own way.