Jesca Hoop

Jesca Hoop creates a curious kitsch of flamenco-folk traditions over modern living sentiments, and it's blooming hard to define.

It's a sound that you'd expect to come from an American homesteader who then settled as a nanny for Tom Waits' family: It meanders, but (tediously for a profile) is simultaneously conclusive; it's a sound you'd expect Guy Garvey to champion on his 6music show; it's what you wanted Fiona Apple to sound like if she wasn't so darn depressed all the time.

Even Mr. Waits himself can't quite hit the nail on the head (but in keeping with this so far abstruse profile, he sort of does) when he says that Jesca Hoop's music, “is like going swimming in a lake at night."

Just give her a listen, and work it out for yourself. You'll probably like it. You just might not know why.

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