Cassandra Jenkins has completed lots since her final album, 2021’s An Overview On Phenomenal Nature: carried out backing vocals on Kevin Morby’s “Rock Backside,” did visitor vocals on Will Sheff’s “In The Thick Of It,” launched an improv EP with Suhail Yusuf Khan, and extra. At the moment, the Brooklyn singer-songwriter is asserting her new LP, My Mild, My Destroyer, together with the information that she has signed to Useless Oceans. The lead single “Solely One” is out now with a music video directed by Lydia Wonderful and Tony Blahd.
In regards to the music, Jenkins stated in a press release, “It’s a couple of Groundhog Day impact, discovering your self in the identical state of affairs over and over, not understanding learn how to get out of that loop — and in some sense, an unwillingness to interrupt a cycle since you’re blinded by your circumstances.”
“Solely One” has a lyric that depicts a avenue encounter with Sisyphus, which Jenkins explains is her approach of “poking enjoyable at heartbreak, and heartbreak’s world view — an incapacity to see something however itself, and a must wallow within the phantasm of permanence.”
Jenkins felt “invigorated” by the important acclaim An Overview On Phenomenal Nature obtained, however she struggled to work on its follow-up on account of exhaustion from two years of touring. “I used to be coming from a spot of burn out and depletion, and within the months following the session, I struggled to just accept that I didn’t just like the file I had simply made. It felt uninspired,” she stated, “so I began over.” She received along with producer, engineer, and mixer Andrew Lappin, and issues began to make sense. “Once we listened again within the management room that first day, I may see an area on my file shelf begin to open up, as a result of the songs had been discovering their residence in actual time. That spark knowledgeable the blueprint for the remainder of the album, and its completion was propelled by a newfound momentum.”
Influences embrace musicians like Tom Petty, Annie Lennox, Neil Younger, Radiohead (The Bends specifically), the Breeders, PJ Harvey, Pavement, David Bowie (particularly Blackstar), and writers equivalent to Anne Carson, Maggie Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, and David Berman. The album was additionally made with a bunch of collaborators: Palehound’s El Kempner, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Isaac Eiger who performed in Unusual Ranger, Katie Von Schleicher, Zoë Brecher of Hushpuppy, Daniel McDowell of Amen Dunes, producer and instrumentalist Josh Kaufman, producer Stephanie Marziano, and director/actor/journalist Hailey Benton Gates.
