ALBUM STREAM: Jessica Pratt – S/T
JESSICA PRATT INTERVIEW – The FADER
SF-based folk songstress Jessica Pratt recently released her self-titled debut on Tim Presley’s (White Fence) new imprint, Birth Records.
The FADER is hosting an exclusive interview with Pratt, along with a full-album stream of her debut LP. Listen to the stream here.
Bio:
“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.”
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. 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.
Pratt, who is planning to tour in March with Presley’s White Fence, has garnered praise in the Bay Area supporting acts such as Bart Davenport, Colossal Yes, Tim Cohen and Dominant Legs.
Jessica Pratt’s debut is now available digitally on iTunes and Amazon. CD/LP is available now at http://birthrcrds.com
Jessica Pratt
Jessica Pratt
(Birth Records)
Street Date: November 13, 2012
Track List:
1. Night Faces
2. Hollywood
3. Bushel Hyde
4. Mountain’r Lower
5. Half Twain the Jesse
6. Casper
7. Midnight Wheels
8. Mother Big River
9. Streets of Mine
10. Titles Under Pressure
11. Dreams
Links: Facebook//SoundCloud//Label