“To say that Jessica Pratt is an old soul would be a vast understatement,” says Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork.“ The young San Francisco singer/songwriter’s deeply intimate folk sounds so sincerely cast in from the 1960s that it’s hard to believe she didn’t release a proper LP during that period of time.”
Pratt’s spooky and seductive self-titled debut is the inaugural release on Tim (White Fence) Presley’s new imprint, Birth Records. “I never wanted to start a label,” Presley says, “but there is something about her voice I couldn’t let go of.”
Jessica Pratt | Night Faces
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Pratt’s debut release includes recordings from over the last five years, and steady advances in sophistication of recording and melody are evident throughout.
To the artist, the record is a time-lapse document of discovery, both musical and personal. But in strangers’ hands, Pratt’s debut is another kind of discovery altogether.
Jessica Pratt | Bushel Hyde
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=CdyUGYG2_5k
A fully-formed emerald artifact dug up cobwebby and cold but no less green for its time spent buried. Sun-bleached and sounding a thousand years old, Pratt’s debut is arrestingly brand dazzling new, and watch how the lights in your living room go soft and yellow when you put it on.”
This event is highly recommended by Digital in Berlin! We are giving away 2 x 1 tickets. Just send a mail to win@digitalinberlin.de with “Jessica Pratt” as the subject.
Jessica Pratt LIVE
Monday, 20 January 2014 | 20:00 CET
Monarch | Skalitzer Str. 134 | 10999 Berlin/Kreuzberg
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