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A singer/songwriter not just in name, but in spirit, Michigan’s Emma Guzman wants you to see what she sees and feel what she’s feeling. “Songwriting is all about intimacy,” she says. “I want the world to be able to listen to what I have been trying to tell everyone since I was 10.”
Guzman certainly achieves this on her new album, Something Less Than Alone, an achingly vulnerable indie-folk record that sees the now nineteen-year-old plotting her growth over the last few years. It’s an album that showcases the simultaneous beauty and turmoil of our teenage years, so filled with unknowns as childhood transitions into young adulthood. Guzman holds nothing back in soundtracking her own coming-of-age experience, sharing her insecurities, her joys, her regrets, and her hopes for whatever comes next.
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“Guzman uses her background in musical theater to project the kind of mature and quirky tone most aspiring performers would kill for (think: Chrissie Hynde).” – Melina Glusac – Metro Times
Something Less Than Alone, is an achingly vulnerable indie-folk record that sees the now nineteen-year-old plotting her growth over the last few years. It’s an album that showcases the simultaneous beauty and turmoil of our teenage years, so filled with unknowns as childhood transitions into young adulthood. Guzman holds nothing back in soundtracking her own coming-of-age experience, sharing her insecurities, her joys, her regrets, and her hopes for whatever comes next. Read more
Album opener “Blue October” makes for a powerful scene-setting introduction, as Guzman captures the uneasy feeling right before winter hits, when everything is slowing down and getting darker. “I was clinging on to that last bit of Autumn magic and bracing myself for that long Michigan Winter,” she says. Her guitar plays a forlorn, longing melody as she sings herself into a daydream: “I’ll have a blue October, days by the creek long over, well could you swim when it’s colder? drift upstream forever…”
Bio
A singer/songwriter not just in name, but in spirit, Michigan’s Emma Guzman wants you to see what she sees and feel what she’s feeling. “Songwriting is all about intimacy,” she says. “I want the world to be able to listen to what I have been trying to tell everyone since I was 10.”
Guzman certainly achieves this on her new album, Something Less Than Alone, an achingly vulnerable indie-folk record that sees the now nineteen-year-old plotting her growth over the last few years. It’s an album that showcases the simultaneous beauty and turmoil of our teenage years, so filled with unknowns as childhood transitions into young adulthood. Guzman holds nothing back in soundtracking her own coming-of-age experience, sharing her insecurities, her joys, her regrets, and her hopes for whatever comes next.

“Guzman uses her background in musical theater to project the kind of mature and quirky tone most aspiring performers would kill for (think: Chrissie Hynde).”