After a string of Really Very Good singles, Emily Burns has finally announced her debut album 'Die Happy'. As she delivers the title track, read our latest Dork Mixtape cover feature.

Words: Stephen Ackroyd.

Picture the scene. It's a few minutes to midnight, and somewhere, Emily Burns is probably refreshing her phone - checking links, getting social posts prepped, making sure Spotify has updated properly. There's a flush of excitement and a whole heap of anxiety in the air - the potential for what comes next is tangible. Five minutes of chaos throwing out digital missives and confirming there have been no disasters, then a gasp for air. It's a dance that she'll have done plenty of times over the last few years, building track by track, EP by EP, but pretty soon, it's going to feel different.

Finally, Emily Burns is having her moment. Not the kind of fifteen minutes-of-fame, fleeting buzz that comes and goes without a trace, but the sort that comes after years of hard graft, self-discovery and commitment to 'the art'. Her debut album, 'Die Happy', is finally - officially - on the board.

"Things are feeling pretty good today," Emily says, her excitement palpable as we catch up the day before the album's title-track is released, and she preps for yet another midnight drop. "I'm celebrating with a trip to the driving range tonight!"