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Jessica Pratt Discusses Her Breakthrough Album ‘Here in the Pitch,’ Collaborating With A$AP Rocky and the Concept of Time
Folk singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt discusses her fourth album 'Here in the Pitch,' collaborating with A$AP Rocky and more.
It’s a shockingly hot day in early September and the folk singer-songwriter, whose stature over the past year has grown from whispers-in-the-know to I-knew-her-whens, is seated in a cafe at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, just steps from the famed La Brea tar pits where the ground has coursed with black sludge for centuries. Just shy of a half-hour, “Pitch” traces the hallmarks of some of her earlier work — warm acoustic guitar strums and lullaby vocals — and embellishes them just slightly, invoking the swish of bossa nova and the haunting remove of the Shangri-Las. Like with “Quiet Signs,” she assembled the album in a recording studio, and “Pitch” is all the more robust for it — never outsized but rather italicized, embodying the California wash of Beach Boys and coffee shop folk of Joni Mitchell.
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