Jessie Baylin's "To Hell And Back" debuts at Paste Magazine

Jessie Baylin’s new song “ To Hell And Back” premiered yesterday at Paste Magazine and can now be heard/shared via Soundcloud. The track is from Baylin’s highly anticipated new album, Dark Place, which will be released April 7 on Blonde Rat (Baylin’s own indie label via Thirty Tigers) and is now available for pre-order.

 

Already receiving critical acclaim, ELLE Magazine premiered the album’s first single “ Creepers (Young Love),” while Baylin’s rendition of Bette Midler’s 1972 recording of “ Do You Wanna Dance” written by Bobby Freeman recently debuted at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. The magazine describes the cover song as “dreamy” and “sultry” adding, “…the record is a lush and slightly nostalgic collection that recalls big, warm AM radio singles, as well as soulful female vocalists like Dusty Springfield and Nancy Sinatra.”

 

In celebration of the release, Baylin will embark on a series of special performances this spring, including shows in Nashville, New York and L.A. See below for complete tour details.

 

Baylin recorded Dark Place over nine days at Richard Swift’s studio in Cottage Grove, OR. Swift (Foxygen, Tennis) produced, arranged, mixed and performed all instrumentation on the album (except for Scotty Murray on guitar for “The Ringer”) with Baylin performing all vocals. Baylin and Swift also co-wrote six of the ten songs on the album.

 

Of her close collaboration with Swift, Baylin comments, “During the making of Little Spark, I first met Richard Swift and with him there was instant trust and chemistry. He was the first person who I felt saw me as an artist and he wasn’t expecting anything except for me to be myself.” Their relationship continued with the making of the  Pleasure Center EP, released in November of 2011, and also marked the beginning of mapping out the next album. “In recording Dark Place we immediately understood the direction this album was going to undertake,” Baylin concludes.

 

Dark Place follows Baylin’s critically acclaimed 2012 release, Little Spark (Blonde Rat), of which NPR’s All Things Considered praised, “…evokes a sound you might have heard 40 years ago, piercing through the static of your AM radio. The big string sections and angelic choruses are all there, echoing the hallmarks of classic orchestral pop,” while Rolling Stone asserted, “…both seductive and distant, as if she’s singing across miles of echo and doubt. This is an album of potent moods.”

 

1. Creepers (Young Love)

2. To Hell And Back

3. Black Blood

4. White Noise

5. Kiss Your Face

6. All That I Can Do

7. The Ringer

8. London Time

9. Lungs

10. Dark Place

11. Do You Wanna Dance