Jolie Holland

The Living and the Dead, Jolie Holland’s new ANTI- album, is quite simply a breakthrough, the album her adoring fans have been waiting for. With a vocal style hailed by the Village Voice as “sultry and sweet, despairing and lonely,” Jolie has experimented in the past with various settings for her unique, jazz-inflected voice; this time, working with collaborators like M. Ward and Marc Ribot, Ms. Holland has embraced both the rocking side of her roots heritage, and the compositional possibilities of the recording studio, multi-tracking her voice extensively for the first time. The results have intensified the evocative moodiness that has always existed in Holland’s music, but also brought out a rollicking looseness that serves her tales of love and loss perfectly. An artist who transcends genres and demographics – her audience spans from 20-something fans of Devandra Barnhardt and Sufjan Stevens to NPR listeners embracing a spiritual descendant of classic American music – Jolie Holland offers us an embrace of her own, a warm, welcoming world where The Living and the Dead dwell side by side.
Jolie collaborates with two legendary guitarists, Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), and M Ward (She & Him, My Morning Jacket), who also helped produce the CD.

RIYL: Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, Neko Case, Norah Jones and Cat Power
TRY: #1, 4, 7, 9

Full Album Available Here:
https://www.piratepirate.com/downloads/
http://www.myspace.com/jolieholland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolie_Holland
http://www.anti.com/artists/view/2/Jolie_Holland