Mistletone

It’s with great warmth that we welcome Jessica Pratt to the Mistletone family. Her very special, self titled debut album is out July 5 on Mistletone / Inertia.

• “Pratt is the real deal, feeling out the world around her (‘Hollywood’, ‘Streets of Mine’) with uncommon wisdom. With only a modest set of tools, she holds such absorbing sway over the listener that it’s almost eerie” – THE BIG ISSUE AUSTRALIA

“To say that Jessica Pratt is an old soul would be a vast understatement,” says Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork. “The young San Francisco singer/songwriter’s deeply intimate folk sounds so sincerely cast in from the 1960s that it’s hard to believe she didn’t release a proper LP during that period of time.”

California singer-songwriter Tim Presley (aka White Fence) recently started a new label, Birth Records, for the sole purpose of putting out the debut from San Francisco’s Jessica Pratt; a record he says sounds like Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of Sibylle Baier. “I never wanted to start a label,” Tim says, “but there is something about her voice I couldn’t let go of.”

This stunningly gorgeous debut release includes recordings from over the last five years, and Jessica’s steady advances in sophistication of recording and melody are evident throughout. To the artist, the record is a time-lapse document of discovery, both musical and personal. But in strangers’ hands, Jessica Pratt’s debut is another kind of discovery altogether.

A fully-formed emerald artifact, dug up cobwebby and cold, but no less green for its time spent buried. Sun-bleached and sounding a thousand years old, Jessica Pratt’s debut is arrestingly brand dazzling new. Just watch how the lights in your living room go soft and yellow when you put it on.

Pitchfork gave the album a 7.5 rating and called Jessica “a young songwriter with a decidedly old soul and a voice that balances spry sweetness with husky grit”. The Guardian named her one of their “Hidden Gems of 2012”: “This sparse, affecting album is one of those mood-perfect collections that makes you check your calendar just to make sure it’s not still 1972. And then hit play again.” Jessica has recently been touring the United States with Father John Misty, Lee Ranaldo, Cass McCombs and Kurt Vile.

Below, you can check out Jessica performing a couple of brand new unreleased songs backstage while on tour opening for Father John Misty:

AON Sessions: Jessica Pratt from All Our Noise on Vimeo.