***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork. Kranky was a bit surprised earlier this year when JESSICA BAILIFF contacted us and asked if we wanted to preview her new album for possible release. We had no idea she had even been working on an album, let alone had completed one, and we were rewarded with a listen to her most compelling album to date. After being in Europe for 5 weeks as a touring member of BODUF SONGS, Jessica Bailiff spent much of 2011, writing and recording At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky in her spartan home studio. Sequestering herself through the hot summer months until finished, she then passed the tracks on to her friend ODD NOSDAM for final mixing. Down-tuned, distorted bass guitar adds a new color to her palette, but familiar ones also come into play: fuzzed and delayed electric guitar, organ, piano, cello, and drums. Noisy pop-tinged love songs nestle slyly in a bed of off-kilter lullabies and dark, metallic waltzes. No need to recycle descriptives like ‘lo-fi’ or ‘hushed vocals’—these are spurious words. This is another intimate collection of songs recorded entirely by Jessica at home, in a room next to where she sleeps. If you listen carefully, you might hear her dreaming.” No Export to Europe or the UK.
LP $19.00
10/02/2012
CD $14.00
10/02/2012
LP $19.00
07/15/2008
CD $14.00
10/29/2002
***JESSICA BAILIFF’s first new solo album in four years balances the more acoustic approach of her songwriting, becoming the most refined example of her musical vision to date. Gossamer vocals hover over delicate melodies, accented by tasteful bits of percussion, piano filigrees, and sundry guitar sounds.
CD $14.00
07/25/2006
***The second album of ravishing post-rock excitement from sonic researcher JESSICA BAILIFF. Seven tracks filled with delicate and alluring vocals, waves of guitar feedback, gooey-slow rhythms, textured atmospherics and beautiful pop melodies recorded in Duluth with ALAN SPARHAWK producing. Features guest aid from Sparhawk and MIMI PARKER.
CD $14.00
10/12/1999
Dreamy and blissful song stylings from Toledo melody dove Bailiff. Drones, organs, piano, guitars and her beautiful voice all combine for a sweet nap in the ether. Joined by Zak Sally and Mimi Parker of Low.
CD $14.00
06/05/1998