Blog: Direct Current

SoCal-to-London singer/songwriter Jesca Hoop follows up her brilliant, left-of-center and completely underexposed '07 debut Kismet this fall with Hunting My Dress , street date TBA. Included in the new ten-track set will be a fleshed out version of one of our favorites: "Murder of Birds", a song that she recorded for her 2008 Kismet Acoustic EP and which features Elbow's Guy Garvey. Glorious. As Tom Waits (whom she worked for as a nanny) put it: "Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night." [...]

• Jesca Hoop - "Murder of Birds" » Jesca Hoop - Murder of Birds.mp3