Recorded music686 entries
Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress
Released: 30/11/2009
Last Laugh
Jesca Hoop's fascinating story includes a musical Mormon upbringing and five years spent child minding for Tom Waits. Her rather sophisticated take on the freak folk genre of yore is far more ornate than most, and is served up with a dash of mysticism.
For more information visit:
http://www.jescahoop.com/
Buy:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002TN0B3W?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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Guardian“Enchanting in parts...” Hunting My Dress is a nine-song collection of beautiful, pastoral compositions that sounds as if it could be the soundtrack for an autumnal Scandinavian vampire movie...
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The Independent“A strange and yet strangely familiar album...” Reassuring and unsettling in equal measure, Jesca Hoop might just turn out to be the Lady Gaga of freaky folk...
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MusicOMH“Inventiveness and vast range of ideas between and even within each song...” Sit back and appreciate the album as the dawning of a new, unique voice which, through its influences (both obvious and not-so), is blending styles and carving a niche in to the increasingly crowded canon of independent and original female artists...
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Drowned In Sound“The wisdom of a woman who has lived a dozen lifetimes...” by drawing from her vast catalogue of experiences, she finds the scope for an engaging range of musical tangents. Yet somehow, she has made an album which is not confused or disjointed – it is unified...
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