free music friday: jessica grace

“It’s about accepting my own circumstances and daily life, instead of trying to escape them by thinking it would be better if I was someone else, or with someone else,” says London-based singer-songwriter Jessica Grace when I ask her about ‘What Is It In You?’, one of the standout tracks on her 2007 debut Insert Quirky Title Here…. “It’s about being addicted to a person’s personality for whatever reason. Normally it’s because that aspect of them is in us, it’s just that we either can’t see it or are too scared to reveal it. Though by the end of the song I’m still pleading for him to come back to me, but of course insulting him at the same time. Poor guy.”

Jessica has been writing songs since the age of 14, when a smalltown childhood and her musical lineage conspired with the emotional hit of Joni Mitchell and Tori Amos, the temperament of The Pixies and the ’80s kitsch of goth-rockers The Sisters Of Mercy to produce an artist of surprising philosophical depth and lyrical brilliance, switching between extremes of melodrama and slapstick humour. After filming the video for ‘What Is It In You?’, which involved lots of running around the London Underground in a pink satin nightie (well it was midsummer) and many painstaking hours of animation, she’s currently hard at work in the studio on the follow-up to Quirky, due next summer. A new EP all about the vagaries of love is also in the works.

MP3: Jessica Grace – ‘What Is It In You?‘

visit Jessica’s Myspace to hear more of her songs

Written by: Alan Pedder

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