''I always felt that I was going to write like Hank Williamhttp://v4.dominorecordco.com/secure_admin/index.php?page=4&articleID=1084&action=edit Domino: Admins: simple things,� Lou recently told The Onion. �When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go. But that's something that comes not from listening to other records, but from something that's just in me.'' Emoh is a lush, well-produced affair with eight tracks recorded with producers like Nashville�s Mark Nevers (Lambchop), Josh Schwartz (not the guy who created The O.C.) and Wally Gagel (Boston�s finest, Folk Implosion associate, and alumni of the Fort Apache studio/hit-factory) and six tracks impeccably recorded at home by Barlow himself. And not �in the bathroom with a cassette player�, either. Though, as Lou admitted recently, �If we'd had Pro Tools when I was 21? With that kind of energy, and those kind of ideas just rushing at me? I could�ve made something that didn't have tape hiss on it, so people would think it was �legitimate�. I would�ve made huge, sprawling masterpieces! I believe that. Because it was all about the energy. Certain Sentridoh stuff I did, I really worked on those things, but when I was working on them, I realised that in the end, because it was on four-track cassette, a large group of people weren�t going to take it seriously. But that was all I had, you know?� Leaving the lo-fi behind, Barlow takes his place as an indie rock elder-statesman and a modern day folk-rocker. The tunes are to the fore, with an upbeat swing. The lyrics are sharp, painfully honest (the jealousy-riven �Royalty�, the self-doubt fuelled �If I Could�) poignantly funny (�The Ballad of Daykitty� is an ode to Lou�s many feline friends) and in the case of �Mary�, downright sacrilegious (�Immaculate conception/Yeah right!�).