Here In The Pitch

Jessica Pratt fourth album, Here in the Pitch, a very different kind of album from Pratt and features some of her most adventurous music yet. She envisioned a more expansive set of influences - “big panoramic sounds that make you think of the ocean and California” - and throughout these nine songs, timpani, glockenspiel, baritone saxophone, and flute are layered alongside robust vocal arrangements that create a triumphant mood, even when the lyrics hint at devastation. Five years after her 2019 breakthrough album Quiet Signs, Pratt has re-emerged with new ambition and new parameters for what her music can be. Working once again at Gary’s Electric Studio in Brooklyn with her trusted collaborators - multi-instrumentalist/engineer Al Carlson and keyboardist Matt McDermott - Pratt enlisted the rhythm duo of bassist Spencer Zahn and percussionist Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) to help realize her vision, alongside contributions from Ryley Walker, Peter Mudge (Mac Miller, Kendrick Lamar), and Alex Goldberg. “I became obsessed with figures emblematic of the dark side of the Californian dream while making this record,” Pratt explains, noting the influence of Los Angeles’ strange, seedy history and the bleak end of the hippy era. You can hear this playfully villainous perspective emerging in her imagistic lyrics, although the clearest shift is in her vocal performance. While Pratt admits to always seeking inspiration from voices that sound like they’ve been “drug through

Tracks

1~1~Life Is
1~2~Better Hate
1~3~World On A String
1~4~Get Your Head Out
1~5~By Hook Or By Crook
1~6~Nowhere It Was
1~7~Empires Never Know
1~8~Glances
1~9~The Last Year

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Jessica Pratt
Release Date: 03 May 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: City Slang
Distributor: Inertia Music