Hunting My Dress
- Jesca Hoop
- Band Name: Jesca Hoop
- Record Label: Vanguard
- Release Date: Jul 27, 2010
- Summary: This is the latest album for the California singer-songwriter, who started out as the nanny to Tom Waits' children.
- Record Label: Vanguard
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental, Singer-Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Sure she's unconventional, a bit puzzling but in the end she is undeniably rewarding and compelling. Hell, come to think of it, Hunting My Dress might be one of 2010's most pleasant surprises.
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80Regardless of these felicitous connections, however, Hoop remains her own invention and the appeal of her biographical details doesn't lie so much in the glitzy endorsement of Waits as in the fact they chime so perfectly with her melding of Kat Bush sensuality and Mary Poppins whimsy. [Dec 2009, p. 95]
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By drawing from her vast catalogue of experiences, she finds the scope for an engaging range of musical tangents. Yet somehow, she has made an album which is not confused or disjointed.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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