MUSIC
WEB RUMORS
Web Rumors is the new-wave style electronic project of Em Burrows. Her music incorporates influences from early underground dance styles such as EBM, proto-house, and post-disco through to 1980s pop and British folk music.
Burrows has released 3 full length albums, 2 EPs and numerous singles under the Web Rumors moniker. Her debut album Audio Video Disco was released in 2019 through Group Therapy Records and featured the come-down heater of that summer, ’Sinner for Your Love’. Follow up LP New Tricks (2021) was described as “Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark meets Austra” with electronic foundations and elements of baroque pop bound adroitly by highly accomplished composition. Later releases saw a left-turn into dance music with self-produced EPs Disciple and Disciple 2 channelling proto-house and electro sounds. Her first single from this body of work, “House of Yes” was described by a listener as being, “Like Paul Hardcastle, Sylvester, and The KLF jamming the Outrun soundtrack on a beach in Goa.” Her most recent album, Travelling Circuits, draws on folk song material, recontextualised with new wave/electronic sounds. Here are some words written about the album:
“The influence of 80s synthop is all over these bewitching songs from Burrows, recalling peak Marianne Faithfull” - Bandcamp
"This isn't just an exercise in letting the synths push these ancient songs in strange new directions but the reverse as well... deliciously steely pop." - The Quietus
Web Rumors’ tightly spun songs have been included in Spotify editorial playlists and Bandcamp features as well as numerous blogs and publications such as New Noise, White Light/White Heat and Something You Said. Burrows is a WAMi nominated artist (Best Keys/Synth Artist 2020, Golden WAMi 2022) and Web Rumors’ performances of note have included Laneway Festival Fremantle (2019), Nannup Festival (2019), Perth Festival (2019), and RTRFM’s In the Pines (2018, 2023).
Em continues to work on new work including a collaborative album with UK folk artist Sharron Kraus and a new Web Rumors album, due for release in 2026.
WEB RUMORS
2025 13 (The Singles) Compilation
2024 Travelling Circuits (LP)
2023 Disciple 2 (EP)
2022 Disciple (EP)
2022 Northern Service (single)
2021 New Tricks (LP)
2021 Human Commodity (single)
2019 Audio Video Disco (LP)
2018 Neue Heimat (single)
EM BURROWS
2020 Radical Love (single)
2020 Quaranqueen (single)
2018 Invisible Seams (LP)
2016 Solitary Sounds (EP)
THE LAMMAS TIDE
2014 Barefoot Electric (LP)
2012 Partridge Farm/The Murky Deep (singles)
2011 High Tide (EP)
OTHER
Composer/sound designer 2022 Situ-8 City. Music for 'Pretty Purgatory' by Tom Mullane
Composer/sound designer 2021 Love Letters to the Revolution by Sian Murphy. Music/sound design.
Producer, Breath Remix (The Rosemary Beads)
Producer, and co-writer, Corrosive with Aria Scarlett
Producer, Wide Open Road: The West Australian Music Podcast
Mix Engineer, The Holy Smoke EP 2024
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