“Jesca Hoop's Stonechild is a stunning meditation on identity”
““We go look for dark” goes the mantra on ‘Free of the Falling’, the desert-folk fingerpicking opening track of Jesca Hoop’s fifth album proper, and the statement of intent could not be clearer: while previous Hoop outings haven’t exactly been cartwheeling exercises in frothy pop, ‘Stonechild’ is the California-born Mancunian’s most brooding yet – the title is inspired by a museum exhibit of a woma”
“With subtle electronic production tugging at the edges of her fingerpicked folk, the California singer-songwriter peers at the dark side of motherhood.”
““I’m obsessed with the dark side of religion,” Jesca Hoop said in a 2017 interview. The singer/songwriter, who’s been drifting in and out of mainstream indie-folk for a decade now, was raised as a Mormon in California. Now, she’s challenging religion en-masse and residing in the U.K., but her fascination with the sinister hasn’t waned. If anything, it’s more pronounced than ever. On STONECHILD, t”
“Jesca Hoop’s fifth album is named after an exhibit in a Philadelphia medical museum: a calcified foetus that a woman carried inside her for decades. It’s a hauntingly evocative image, and one that contains a multitude of contradictions: the most vulnerable of humans transformed into rock-solid matter; an existence both profoundly lonely and subsumed inside another; a life that never truly began bu”
