Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch (Fools Gold Vinyl)

Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch (Fools Gold 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.

with a structure and melody that was sublimated in Lee’s previous LPs

but on the evidence of this new recording

Recorded in an old wooden barn outside their hometown of Toronto

was written primarily in the back of vans while on tour

evolving into a new form

and how they can inform the reality we perceive

when Grooms formed and released their debut album

Grizzly Bear celebrate the 15th anniversary of their iconic second album (and first recorded as a full band) Yellow House

and intriguing

experimental electronic music that makes synthesisers sound human

And by the end

she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful