Jessica Pratt on Bandcamp.
Is Jessica Pratt the indie Adele? Pops up every few years, dominates the year with her incredible voice and better-than-average songwriting, somehow unites music critics and fans, and then disappears again for several more years. Unlike Adele, I couldn’t tell you a single thing about Pratt, which fits and benefits her ghostly folk-pop. Part of me wants to dock “The Last Year” and pretty much every song on her new album because they sound like most Pratt songs … yet we get so little of her that I’m just glad to have it. Let us savor this moment before a shitty Netflix airquote original airquote movie ruins “The Last Year.”
-Brady Gerber
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