Jesca Hoop Releases New Album + Tour Dates

Jesca Hoop Tour Dates

08/07: Los Angeles, CA @ Largo

08/08: San Diego, CA @ Anthology

08/09: Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar

08/10: Long Beach, CA @ Fingerprints (Record Store Performance)

08/11: Ventura, CA @ Zoey's

08/12: Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place

08/13: Oakland, CA @ Yoshi's

08/14: Nevada City, CA @ Haven Underground

08/16: Portland, OR @ Alberta Rose Theatre

08/17: Seattle, WA @ Empty Sea Studios

08/18: Eugene, OR @ Sam Bounds Garage

Coinciding with today's release of The House That Jack Built on Bella Union, Jesca Hoop shares the free mp3 download for “Hospital (Win Your Love),” which premiered yesterday as a stream on Paste.  Layered by her resonating vocals over subtle synths, the track is an ode to tackling “a human quality that causes us to crave injury recalling childhood memories,” explains Hoop. Jesca Hoop will also be embarking on a west coast tour in August, joining fellow songwriter Jesse Harris on tour.

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.

Since self-releasing Hunting My Dress, Jesca Hoop has continued her knack for collecting fans in high places. Having been endorsed by Elbow’s Guy Garvey – she presented his BBC Radio's 6 music show on March 25th – she’s joined Eels on their US and European tour in 2011 and was invited by Peter Gabriel to sing backing vocals for his David Letterman and Jools Holland TV performances, and support and duet with him on his South American tour last year. With the release of The House That Jack Built, Jesca is set to pick up a host of new fans, high profile or not.