release date: May 3, 2024
format: digital (9 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,95]
producer: Jessica Pratt & Al Carlson; Peter Mudge; Matt McDermott
label: City Slang - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "Life Is" (TV performance) - 2. "Better Hate" (4 / 5) - 3. "World on a String" (4 / 5) - 4. "Get Your Head Out" - 7. "Empires Never Knows" - 9. "The Last Year"
[ Live on KEXP ]
4th studio album by Californian folk artist Jessica Pratt, which follows more than five years after Quiet Signs (Feb. 2019), and just like that this new album counts nine tracks and a total running time of just under 28 minutes.
It's not far from her 2019 album, but that doesn't necessarily mean lesser. Listening to Pratt in 2024 is like being transported on a time machine revisting the 1960s easy listening / baroque pop-period where she could have listened to Phil Spector, The Carpenters, Nick Drake, and / or Stan Getz and João Gilberto. It's... oh so quiet, a bit other-worldly but altogether very relaxing and comforting like a plaid gently swept over your cold legs on a Winter's night. Pratt has a distinct laid-back alto vocal. At times she reminds me of Richard Hawley but mostly she sounds like no one else, and Here in the Pitch is simply Pratt's best album to date, and what a wondrous release that is.
Here in the Pitch is no less than one of this year's absolute best and a highly recommended release.
