Jessica Pratt shares video for new song 'World on a String'
Here in Pitts Out May 3rd via Mexican Summer
March 26, 2024
Photo by Samuel Hess
Jessica Pratt releases new album, Here in Pitts, out May 3 via Mexican Summer. Now he's shared the album's second single, “World on a String,” via a music video. Fellow musician Kate Bollinger directed the song's video. Check it out below, followed by Pratt's upcoming tour dates.
“On this track I was influenced by the swinging, naïve brilliance of 'lost' teenage garage rock bands, as well as enduring loves like The Nazz and Guided By Voices,” Pratt says in a press release. “Record the song moments after learning it on an instrument you just picked up. A lot of times, that's all you need.”
Bollinger said of the video: “Creating this video with Jessica was a dream piece of art. We've been emailing for days, and finally land on a mondo-meets-field-of-freaks-style village. We brought a lot of friends from LA: two DPs, 20 cast members and a production designer. It was a great team effort and a day I will always remember.”
Previously, Pratt shared the album's first single, “Life Is,” via a music video. “Life Is” was one of the songs of the week.
Here in Pitts is the continuation of 2019 Quiet signs. The Los Angeles-based musician recorded again at Gary's Electric Studio in Brooklyn. She collaborated with her previous collaborators, multi-instrumentalist/engineer Al Carlson and keyboardist Matt McDermott. The sessions also featured bassist Spencer Zahn and percussionist Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace). Ryley Walker, Peter Mudge (Mac Miller, JID) and Alex Goldberg also contributed to the album.
“I became obsessed with figures that are emblematic of the dark side of the California dream while making this record,” Pratt said of Here in Pitts in a previous press release.
Pratt recorded the album over a three-year period, from 2020 to 2023. Of the five-year gap between albums, she said, “I never wanted it to take this long. I'm just a real perfectionist. I was just trying to get the right feeling and it takes a long time to do that.”
The previous press release compared the album's first single and opening track, “Life Is,” to the Walker Brothers' 1960s instrumental pop classic “The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore,” but Pratt cautioned that it's not exactly representative of the album. a set, which is more intense.
“In a way, it's kind of a false flag,” Pratt admitted. “But I also feel like it's a statement of intent.”
Read our interview with Jessica Pratt at Quiet signs.
Jessica Pratt tour Dates:
Fri May 31 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Sun. June 2 – Paris, FR @ L'Alhambra *
Mon 3 June – Brussels, BE @ AB Theater *
Tue June 4 – Amsterdam, NL @ Zonnehuis *
Thu 6th June – London, UK @ Union Chapel *
Thu June 20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
Fri June 21 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet's
Sat. June 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club
Marry. June 26 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Thu June 27 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
Marry. July 24 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Fri July 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
Sat. July 27 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
* = support from Joanna Sternberg
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