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"After being in Europe for 5 weeks as a touring member of Boduf Songs, Jessica Bailiff spent much of 2011, writing and recording At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky in her spartan home studio. Sequestering herself through the hot summer months until finished, she then passed the tracks on to her friend Odd Nosdam for final mixing. Down-tuned, distorted bass guitar adds a new color to her palette, but familiar ones also come into play: fuzzed and delayed electric guitar, organ, piano, cello, and drums. Noisy pop-tinged love songs nestle slyly in a bed of off-kilter lullabies and dark, metallic waltzes. No need to recycle descriptives like 'lo-fi' or 'hushed vocals' - these are spurious words. This is another intimate collection of songs recorded entirely by Jessica at home, in a room next to where she sleeps. If you listen carefully, you might hear her dreaming."
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KRANK 097CD
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"Feels Like Home balances the more acoustic approach to Jessica's songwriting on her most recent (untitled) album with the blissed electricity found on her earlier material. Gossamer vocals hover over delicate melodies, accented by tasteful bits of percussion, piano filigrees, and sundry guitar sounds. Feels Like Home is the most refined example of Jessica Bailiff's musical vision to date."
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KRANK 054CD
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"Call it Jessica Bailiff, Untitled or anything you want; the third album from Jessica Bailiff is a delivery on the promise of her first two albums. Simultaneously clearer and murkier, it features a more acoustic focus and experimental sound placement. Two songs feature the violin-uke (most notably the stark 'Hour of the Traces'), there is a tin whistle on a few tracks, piano, a few computer fx, drums, smeary guitars and even sitar. The end result can best be described as narco-folk. Jessica Bailiff describes her new album as being about '...stagefright, dreams, loss of creative energy/desire, love & time, living in the same place all your life, ghosts, near-death experiences, etc..' After recording two albums with the members of Low, Jessica Bailiff created a direct, stripped back album that showcases her-strengths in both songwriting and arrangements."
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KRANK 038CD
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"With her second album Jessica Bailiff has expanded and defined the ravishing sound that typified Even In Silence. Hour of the Trace can entrance with Bailiff's delicate and alluring vocals, overwhelm with waves of guitar feedback, stumble along in molasses slow rhythms, evoke country gatherings around the pump organ, or puzzle with a clackety-clack that sounds like an old kinetoscope. It is not only an incredible personal statement from Jessica Bailiff but a work that invites complete immersion. Unlike so many post-rockers content to coast on a few effects pedals, Jessica Bailiff combines serious sonic research with songwriting. It's the familiar aspects of the pop song and Jessica's beautiful vocals that lure the listener in."
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KRANK 026CD
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Debut album from Jessica Bailiff from Toledo, OH. " Across Even In Silence extended guitar figures float over Jessica's vocals, bass, drums, samples and percussion. The album is an affecting mix of instruments and Jessica's beautiful vocals that leave trails of melody for the listener to follow. The mix of the album allows echoing piano chords, traces of bass guitar or whiffs of percussion to emerge from the clouds of guitars. A delicately balanced mix of organ lines and rhythm is placed next to Jessica's fragile vocals, followed by deep guitar drones."
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