Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch (Black Vinyl)

Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch (Black Vinyl)On her fourth album, west coast artist Jessica Pratt expands the scope of her artistry, placing her sharpest songs to date within an ever broadening pool of influences including spectral '60s pop, Hollywood psychedelia and bossa nova. Whereas Pratt's 2019 record, Quiet Signs, floated elegantly in the ether, Here in the Pitch is entrenched in more earthen characteristics, as the title suggests, and her craft is emboldened with a newfound gravitas.

All of this is told through heady loops of samples

Gone are the glimmering atmospherics and studio affectations of recent Wild Pink outings

bassist Drew McBride

and this three tracker follows in the same trajectory

Most of the album was written around the time it was recorded

By putting faith in a newfound collaboration without straying from her natural instincts

The hallmark of Jason Molina's career

documentaries

Nexcyia & mu tate

Over the course of 11 days

If our value were instead determined by our contribution to the ecosystem

Ziter in Vermont