Artist.......: Jesca Hoop
Album........: Hunting My Dress (Reissue)
Label........: Vanguard Records
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: 78079-2
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2010-09-07
Str.date.....: 2010-07-27
Quality......: 168kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.jescahoop.com/
track title time
Disc 1/2
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1. Whispering Light 4:00
2. The Kingdom 3:37
3. Feast of the Heart 3:25
4. Angel Mom 5:05
5. Four Dreams 4:57
6. Murder of Birds 4:28
7. Bed Across the Sea 3:35
8. Tulip 5:07
9. Hunting My Dress 4:54
Disc 2/2
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1. Enemy 3:26
2. Intelligentactile 101 4:22
3. Silverscreen 4:01
4. My Boo 3:47
5. Wintersong 4:16
Runtime 59:00
Size 71.66
Release Notes:
A sensual, esoteric singer/songwriter whose odd, sparse
songs nod to influences like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell,
and Vashti Bunyan, Jesca Hoop got her big break thanks to
her gig as a nanny for Tom Waits' offspring in the early
2000s. Hoop had grown up in a musically inclined Mormon
family, but left the fold soon after her parents
separated. She traveled around California, Wyoming, and
Arizona writing songs and honing her craft before settling
down with the Waits family for five years as their nanny.
Waits took a liking to Hoop's off-beat indie pop songs --
songs that in their way linked her with so-called "New
Weird Americans" like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and
Faun Fables -- and he passed her demo (a version of the
song "Seed of Wonder") along to Lionel Conway, who in turn
handed it to KCRW's Nic Harcourt. The DJ took a liking to
Hoop's demo and started giving "Seed of Wonder" some
airplay; the song went on to become fairly popular with
Harcourt's listeners, so much so that record companies
started paying court to Hoop. She signed with 3
Entertainment soon after the song hit the radio, and her
debut full-length on that label, Kismet, was released in
2007. The Kismet Acoustic EP arrived in 2008, followed by
her sophomore full-length, Hunting My Dress, in the summer
of 2010.