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"Secret Emchy Society takes a brassy, barroom belting approach to roguery" - NPR "[Secret Emchy Society] is tailor-made for fans of Nikki Lane and Sarah Shook & the Disarmers' fuzzy, country-meets-punk, honky-tonk-ready sound." - TheBoot.com "One could describe Emch as if Nick Cave had grown up in Bakersfield with a dynamic swagger that could part the Red Sea." - NoDepression "Cindy Emch of Secret Emchy Society is a standard bearer for queer country artists." - Rock and Roll Globe "If Nick Cave took his murder ballads to the next logical conclusion and leaned into his country side, his music would likely sound more than a little like Secret Emchy Society’" - Americana Highways "The album finds the band with a rich, mature sound — the band has never sounded more confident. The album explores the gamut of classic country sounds, from honky tonk to outlaw to Western swing." - Adobe & Teardrops "For fans of Buck Owens, Sarah Shook, Dwight Yoakam, Lydia Loveless and Shovels & Rope." - Post to Wire About: Secret Emchy Society
There’s a particular kind of silence in the American landscape - a silence that comes just before a storm rolls in, or just after a heart breaks. Secret Emchy Society has always written songs in that silence, and with their upcoming album Queen of Assholes (October 2025), they don’t just sing into it - they raise a ruckus, build a church from it, then burn it down. Fans of outlaw country will hear familiar grit in these songs, but nothing about this record is imitation. As one recent critic put it, if Merle Haggard’s hard-luck, hard-living gospel speaks to your bones, Secret Emchy Society is your next truth-teller - just as battered, just as brave, just as blisteringly real. A Sound Rooted in the Road Rainbow Rodeo described the new album as opening the gates to “Hallelujah Town” - a place part honky-tonk, part holy fire. The tracks are haunted with memory and lit with mischief, veering from tear-streaked ballads to boot-stomping brawls. Whether you're dancing in sawdust or nursing a heartbreak on the porch, these are songs that meet you where you are and remind you you’re not alone in the dark. A Reclamation in a Reckoning Era In a country music world often flattened by formula, Secret Emchy Society resurrects the wildness. Their new album is a declaration of independence - from genre rules, from polite sorrow, from hollow nostalgia. Queen of Asshole is loud, unrepentant, and, like the best country music, honest enough to hurt a little. This isn’t country for people playing cowboy. This is country for those who've already been through the fire - and still light a match to find the way home. |
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