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9 Stars out of Ten Reared on a mixture of Mormonism and folk music, Jesca Hoop has since lived in the wilderness of Arizona’s homesteads and served as a nanny for Tom Waits. Now her debut album Kismet sees all the influences synergized into an off-balance cacophony, a collection of tunes still half-wild, dancing through the outskirts of the forest with a restless sense of freedom. _Summertime_ opens the album with the ominous cackle of a crow, subsiding into sweeping, e... MORE
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Some kind of magical perfectness chilling one to the bone… a soft, daisy-perfumed summer wind blowing in your ears…a fresh grass smell you can’t stop breathing in… an exotic-obscure sensation having you hypnotized the moment she enters your world… What to say? What to write more to describe her? Nothing probably, after hearing her image from Tom Waits’ master eyes; "Jesca Hoop's music is like a four sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red ... MORE
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a new music drunk discovery of mine. a mixture of infectious glee and a flashback sommersault into the 1920's, jesca hoop is very much fitting into my caffeine-dependent tuesday. she is post-modern folk with a quirky edge, with a hula-hoop.
let's play.
lucy.
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Jesca Hoop's debut Kismet is out by September 18th. Go, grab it! It's otherworldy fantabuloustic!!!
This is how Tom Waits describes her music:
"Jesca Hoop's music is like a four sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night."
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Traveling is tiring. Especially when your flight is delayed by 3-ish hours and you get home in the wee hours of the morning. I blame this for my lack of eloquence and usual lengthy but informative musical chatter on this mog post.
Jesca Hoop. Former nanny of Tom Waits. Nice little pop song. The end.
