“I didn’t know the trouble I was causing, didn’t know that I could do that.”

The opening of Prize Hunter, the first song and single from Emma Pollock’s first album in 9 years, is sung over a sprightly bass line that belies a rich compendium that is the songwriter’s most personal and expressive collection to date.

Pollock asks "Tell me, what does a rainbow sound like" and answers herself “start at the beginning until you sing sunlight.” The interior dialogue of the song describes a need to catalogue and order the world in order to perceive it: “Sitting on my shelf my accumulated wealth / All the words and numbers you could want / But I sometimes ask if they endanger my health.” A description of Pollock’s evolving self-awareness, the interior conversation on display yields the solution to the problem: Start at the beginning, keep going.