A Q&A with Jessica Pratt on her new album ‘Here in the Pitch,’ which takes inspiration from iconic California lore and mythology.
’s spectral folk music is to be disoriented by time. Her songs have always been like a back-alley portal to a lost decade or a vestige of childhood consciousness; you could fall asleep streaming them on Spotify and wake up believing they’re coming from a great-ancestor’s dust-covered phonograph.
I’ve always been very interested in Kenneth Anger, and how all of these figures sort of intersected at that time. California is very unique, and it feels younger than the rest of the country. Oh, another book I forgot to mention isWhat is intriguing to you about Los Angeles history and mythology? Yes and no. There’s a creeping quality to the record. And by creeping, I mean creepy in general, but also if you imagine shadows creeping along the wall, as the sun is shifting through the sky. I was actually talking to a friend the other day, and he was saying,
I feel like an “It” girl has to feel like someone who’s wise beyond their years. Who conveys intelligence, glamour, and maybe, on occasion, a bit of world weariness, sort of in this implicit way. She’s often seen, not always heard — it’s like a visual thing a lot of the time. In some manner or another, I’ve been fascinated with various “It” girls over the years in the way that they often evoke both a tragic romance and resilience.
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