Jenkins, Cassandra - My Light My Destroyer (Pink Clear Wave Coloured Vinyl)

Cassandra Jenkins - My Light My Destroyer (Pink Clear Wave Coloured Vinyl)

Cassandra Jenkins is quite simply one of the best songwriter-storytellers currently making music. Hers is a specific and singular corner of the Great American Songwriters, artists like David Berman, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Tweedy and Sufjan Stevens. They’re artists connected by a sense of immediacy, not just in the writing – which is precise, evocative, brutal at times, pitch-back funny right when you need it – but by their delivery, by the way they sing with an immersive, total belief that carries you through their songs. These are the artists and songs that sneak up and really live with us forever, and on My Light, My Destroyer, Jenkins joins their ranks. What’s most remarkable about My Light, My Destroyer is it captures an artist at an exciting leap in her evolution. So much about the album feels of-a-kind with its predecessors; field recordings and found sound permeate, narrative songwriting crashes into heady, swirling compositions. On My Light, My Destroyer, many of the songs are devoted to specific feelings, and to really getting inside those feelings as opposed to getting inside a narrative arc. Lead single “Only one” is one example, as Jenkins’s asserts that a moment, or a song, can be wholly myopic; it can embody a singular feeling, and provides no answers. 

Tracklisting

1) Devotion
2) Clams Casino
3) Delphinium Blue
4) Shatner’s Theme
5) Aurora, IL
6) Betelgeuse
7) Omakase
8) Music??
9) Petco
10) Attente Téléphonique
11) Tape and Tissue
12) Only One
13) Hayley