Jesca Hoop is getting ready to kick off a west coast tour in support of her new album The House That Jack Built (out now on Bella Union) alongside Jesse Harris. Before she departs, Jesca is sharing the video for album track “Hospital (Win Your Love).
The surreal video, filled with sprinkles lipstick, pigtails and hospital gowns, depicts Hoop as an overgrown child and hospital patient, offering a whimsical take on the pain caused by venturing down memory lane.
“Hospital (Win Your Love)” tackles “a human quality that causes us to crave injury”. As Jesca explains, “I recall daydreaming as a child about going to the hospital and fantasizing about the way my family would cater to me if I were to come home with a broken arm, or how cool I would look to my peers if i showed up at school with a black eye!”
New album The House That Jack Built has been the recipient of outstanding reviews and is the follow up to 2009’s Hunting My Dress. The House That Jack Built deftly showcases Jesca’s unflinching tendency to pull focus from widescreen to close-up. Part siren song, part grim warning, it achieves a perspective-warping balance between the haunting intimacy of Hoop’s delivery and an unconfined air of horizon-scanning grandeur from the outset.
Jesca Hoop Tour Dates
08/07: Los Angeles, CA @ Largo at the Coronet
08/08: San Diego, CA @ Anthology
08/09: Costa Mesa, CA @ Detroit Bar
08/10: Long Beach, CA @ Fingerprints (Record Store Performance)
08/11: Ventura, CA @ Zoey’s
08/12: Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place
08/13: Oakland, CA @ Yoshi’s
08/14: Nevada City, CA @ Haven Underground
08/16: Portland, OR @ Alberta Rose Theatre
08/17: Seattle, WA @ Empty Sea Studios
08/18: Eugene, OR @ Sam Bounds Garage
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