Jessie Baylin's Dark Place out today, new lyric video premieres

Jessie Baylin’s highly anticipated new album, Dark Place, is out today on Blonde Rat (Baylin’s own indie label viaThirty Tigers). Released to widespread acclaim, NPR Music praises, “Swift shrouds Baylin in lush, stylized strains of orchestral ‘60s pop a la Nancy Sinatra, as well as coolly atmospheric ‘90s dream-pop, rife with icy synth pads, gauzy reverb and lacerating guitar tones. At the center of it, Baylin is artfully, magnetically elusive, sounding as though she’s choosing to keep the deepest, most ineffable depths of her emotions to herself—profoundly moved by motherhood, but not defined by it. What a gift to give a daughter,” while The Huffington Post calls the album, “dreamy” and “gorgeous.”

 

In celebration of the release, a new lyric video for the track “ Black Blood” premiered today and can be viewed/sharedhere. The lyric video follows the official music video for the track “Creepers (Young Love)” which recently premiered at Entertainment Weekly and can now be viewed/shared via YouTube. Of the song and video Entertainment Weeklypraises, “Dark, slinking, and sexy, the video is a perfect fit for the track about the animalistic pull towards the strangest of our desires.”

 

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.”