Red Ribbon—the project of Emma Danner, the Los Angeles artist, recently announced her self-titled LP produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Cat Power, Joyce Manor), will be released on November 1st, 2024 via Danger Collective Records (Sebadoh, Mercury Rev). “I’ve always censored myself, but on Red Ribbon, I let myself be more free,” Danner says. “This record feels visceral.”

Ahead of the album’s release, Danner has shared the single “Crying My Car.” “On this song, I’m really really sad, yet want to makeout in the backseat,” she says. Red Ribbon follows 2021’s Planet X.

The album is part inspired by Danner’s interest into martial arts—something she studied while making Red Ribbon. Her time spent in the boxing gym and the studio were undeniably intertwined, each experience working in tandem to empower Danner to express anger, salacity and passion unabashedly. “I couldn’t help but learn how to be ‘a lady’ growing up: always polite, always friendly, always likable. So it felt nice and necessary to finally exhale against all of that. There are definitely elements of aggression and hurt in the writing of some of these songs.”

In 2020, Danner was working in a fried chicken restaurant in Seattle, playing shows with her band, and recording with friends. When the pandemic hit, she lost that job and decided to leave the city she had called home for so many years. Settling in LA, Red Ribbon began to take shape. Danner found a studio to play in and a new team of people to collaborate with on production. Over the course of a year, she built Red Ribbon, creatively reinvigorated with the help of Rob Schnapf . “It was a dream to work with Rob. He made some of my favorite records–the ones I found when I was a teenager and music just hits different,” Danner says. “His energy is calm, he is hilarious, and he created a studio where I felt comfortable being a sensitive person. I’m sensitive as hell, I have big emotions all the time and that can be hard for me. I deeply appreciated his approach to recording music, it allowed me to let some things go.”

Red Ribbon
Red Ribbon
Track List
Dangerbird Records

1. YSFP
2. Underground
3. My Body Is A Blade
4. Like You
5. Reckless Depressed Like This
6. Gang Star
7. Angeline
8. Jonas
9. Crying My Car

Pre-order Red Ribbon HERE