“God’s Picture” is the latest track to be taken from Emma Ruth Rundle’s These Killing Times, which is described by Emma as the centerpiece and thesis statement of this record. The album will be released through her own imprint Errant Child on September 18. “God’s Picture’ is a meditation on the state of the world, particularly climate disaster, global conflict and class. Musically this song feels like a segue from Engine of Hell, with its gentle piano and guitar, to These Killing Times, with its more lush arrangements and message. This song is also a plea for the demolition of western hegemony. Accompanied by a music video collaboration with many friends and for which I painstakingly constructed the sets for in the winter of 2025/26, ‘God’s Picture’ is the thesis statement at the core of my new album, These Killing Times,” said Rundle.

Through the fantastic characters and symbolic garnishes she brought to life in the videos for “Enough” and “God’s Picture”,  demons and society quasi-Elizabethan folk, the artist found a sense of much needed levity. As though she is willing this satirical take on an alternative-timeline-fantasyland into being, the visuals are an essential ingredient in this alchemical brew. Rundle adds: “The characters in ‘God’s Picture’ provide a way both to play and lightly explore the power structures and politics and themes of this time.

Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat