Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now - COMPACT DISCS

Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Memories Are Now Artist: Jesca Hoop Label: Sub Pop Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 098787117523 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2017 02 10 Number of Discs: 1 Jesca Hoop wastes no time in making clear it's confidence, confrontation, and craftsmanship. The stark and reverberant title track opens the album with "a fighting spirit," says Hoop, serving as an anthem to push through any obstacle and put forth your very best work. And she has unequivocally

Title: Memories Are Now
Artist: Jesca Hoop
Label: Sub Pop
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 098787117523
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-02-10
Number of Discs: 1

Jesca Hoop wastes no time in making clear it's confidence, confrontation, and craftsmanship. The stark and reverberant title track opens the album with "a fighting spirit," says Hoop, serving as an anthem to push through any obstacle and put forth your very best work. And she has unequivocally done that here, with an album of stunningly original songs-minimalist yet brimming with energy, emerging from a wealth of life experience, great emotional depth, and years of honing the craft of singing. As riveting as it is reflective, the album, produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes), is a fresh debut of sorts for Hoop, as the first of her solo records made outside of Tony Berg's Zeitgeist Studios where she and Mills were mentored. Says Hoop, "Blake is so utterly musical and emotionally intelligent in his expression. I wanted to see what we could do, just he and I out from under Tony's wing." Mills pushed her to strip away layers, keeping it as close to the live experience as possible, using whole live takes and working very quickly. "It's still covered in embryonic fluid, for lack of a better way to put it," says Hoop.

Tracks:
1.1 Memories Are Now
1.2 The Lost Sky
1.3 Animal Kingdom Chaotic
1.4 Simon Says
1.5 Cut Connection
1.6 Songs of Old
1.7 Unsaid
1.8 Pegasi
1.9 The Coming