Jessica Bailiff
Feels Like Home CD
Toledo, OH's Jessica Bailiff began recording in 1995 and sent a demo to Kranky Records at the suggestion of Low's Alan Sparhawk. Eleven years later she is back with her fourth Kranky release "Feels Like Home" (Kranky, 2006). This is Bailiff's first solo album in four years, resumes her project of skeletal trance-like visions/confessions. Angelic whisper, tender guitar strumming and piano arrangements that seem to wander aimlessly combine to create what could be her best work to date. Bailiff continues to sharpen her aesthetic persona: a sweeter version of Nick Drake's solipsistic paranoia, a female version of Donovan's naive folk music, a homely version of Enya's magical fairy-tale chants.