Full length Album The House That Jack Built out
June 26th on Bella Union
Approaching the release of her eagerly anticipated album The
House That Jack Built (due out June 26th via Bella
Union) Jesca Hoop releases the video for her first single
from the album “Born To,” which premiered onInterview. The video
features two versions of Jesca and illustrates the “what if?” “Born To” asks a
question we’ve all asked ourselves “how is it that I was born into the
circumstances I was born into. How is it some of us are born into famine and
others into unimaginable wealth?”
The House That Jack Built deftly showcases Jesca
Hoop’s unflinching tendency to pull focus from widescreen to close-up. Part
siren song, part grim warning, it achieves a perspective-warping balance
between the haunting intimacy of Hoop’s delivery and an unconfined air of
horizon-scanning grandeur from the outset – tempestuous, moodily melodic opener
‘Born To’ shares this striking duality with later highlights ‘When I’m Asleep’,
‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Deeper Devastation’.
It arrives with more than a few splashes on its hands. Life
and death; light and dark; sex and war; head and heart: The House That
Jack Built offers up as much in celebration of the macabre as it does
in mistrust of the familiar, with a twist of humor. It’s steeped in an allusion
to biology, nature and humanity, but drops precious few clues as to whether its
next rush of imagery is set to beguile or repel.
Returning to Tony Berg’s Zeitgeist Studio in Los Angeles,
where she recordedHunting My Dress, Jesca enlisted old friends Shawn
Everett, Blake Mills andTony Berg himself as
her co-producers. Says Hoop, “What a combination of minds, these three men
& me. It was a real balancing act with tensions pulling toward one or the
other. Striking that balance was the ticket to some of the most elevated
moments in my musical collaborations to date.”
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