Jenkins, Cassandra

My Light, My Destroyer (pink)

Cassandra Jenkins is quite simply one of the best songwriter-storytellers currently making music. She finds herself in a singular corner of the Great American Songwriters, artists like David Berman, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Tweedy and Sufjan Stevens. They're artists connected by a sense of immediacy, not just in the writing - which is precise, evocative, brutal at times, pitch-back funny right when you need it - but by their delivery, by the way they sing with an immersive, total belief that carries you through their songs. These are the artists and songs that sneak up and really live with us forever, and on 'My Light, My Destroyer, Jenkins joins their ranks. What's most remarkable about 'My Light, My Destroyer' is it captures an artist at an exciting leap in her evolution. So much about the album feels of-a-kind with its predecessors; field recordings and found sound permeate, narrative songwriting crashes into heady, swirling compositions. Jenkins sings with what can only be described as a powerwhisper (think Sufjan Stevens, Annie Lennox, Margo Timmins or YHF-era Tweedy), her vocals up close and intimate but subtly confrontational. But it all feels bigger here, more finely honed, bolder and richer than her previous work and than her peers. On 'My Light, My Destroyer,' many of the songs are devoted to specific feelings, and to really getting inside those feelings as opposed to getting inside a narrative arc. Lead single "Only one" is one example, as Jenkins's asserts that a moment, or a song, can be wholly myopic; it can embody a singular feeling, and provides no answers. Songs like 'Devotion,' 'Delphinium Blue,' 'Clams Casino,' 'Echo,' and 'Only One' speak to the liberating quality of focused observation, even to the point of disillusionment. Released on clear pink vinyl.

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LP - 1 disk
Release date
12-07-2024
Label
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549444
EAN
0656605164632
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Exp. 12-07-2024
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. DEVOTION
2. CLAMS CASINO
3. DELPHINIUM BLUE
4. SHATNER'S THEME
5. AURORA, IL
6. BETELGEUSE
7. OMAKASE
8. MUSIC??
9. PETCO
10. ATTENTE TÉLÉPHONIQUE
11. TAPE AND TISSUE
12. ONLY ONE
13. HAYLEY