Artist: Jesca Hoop
Album: “Memories Are Now”
Label: Sub Pop
Format Reviewed: Digital Advance
Lyrics of Note:
I can carry this weight
I can stand up tall
Look you in the eye
You haven’t broken me yet
You don’t scare me to death
You don’t scare me at all though you try
Singer/songwriter Jesca Hoop’s latest album, “Memories Are Now,” is a mood-inducing collection with versatile weightiness that attaches to your subconscious and acts as a trigger to past emotions long suppressed. Hoop’s voice, ethereal and intimate, lures you in like a soft lullaby and leads you on a track-by-track audible embrace that is almost comfortingly maternal, particularly on songs “Cut Connection” and “Animal Kingdom Chaotic.”
In listening to “Memories Are Now” you are reminded that music is not only for the now, but instead, something you will long remember in the future.
