Jesca HoopBest Jesca Hoop Albums Ranked

Stonechild

thelineofbestfit

9.0

“Jesca Hoop's Stonechild is a stunning meditation on identity”

Memories Are Now

loudandquiet

9.0

“Jesca Hoop’s fourth album proper comes after a year working with Sam Beam from Iron & Wine, which produced a set of elegantly simple duets that never strayed far from Beam’s template of rustically warming American folk. That collaborative constraint seems to have found a reaction on ‘Memories Are Now’: any restriction Hoop might’ve experienced is discarded across its nine tracks as she explores th”

Stonechild

loudandquiet

8.0

““We go look for dark” goes the mantra on ‘Free of the Falling’, the desert-folk fingerpicking opening track of Jesca Hoop’s fifth album proper, and the statement of intent could not be clearer: while previous Hoop outings haven’t exactly been cartwheeling exercises in frothy pop, ‘Stonechild’ is the California-born Mancunian’s most brooding yet – the title is inspired by a museum exhibit of a woma”

Memories Are Now

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“No element of Jesca Hoop's excellent Memories Are Now feels like it ever existed in isolation”

Stonechild

pitchfork

7.7

“With subtle electronic production tugging at the edges of her fingerpicked folk, the California singer-songwriter peers at the dark side of motherhood.”

Stonechild

pastemagazine

7.4

““I’m obsessed with the dark side of religion,” Jesca Hoop said in a 2017 interview. The singer/songwriter, who’s been drifting in and out of mainstream indie-folk for a decade now, was raised as a Mormon in California. Now, she’s challenging religion en-masse and residing in the U.K., but her fascination with the sinister hasn’t waned. If anything, it’s more pronounced than ever. On STONECHILD, t”