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JANA HORN

Jana Horn

The Window Is The Dream

    A Rothko-esque color field set to music, The Window Is The Dream ventures even deeper into Horn’s inner space than her stark, acclaimed debut Optimism, which earned her an ‘artist to watch’ tag from The Guardian upon its release last year. For her second record, Horn travelled to upstate New York to record with a few musical touchstones in mind: the electro-primitivism of the Silver Apples, austere rhythm kings This Heat and The Raincoats’ time-bending Odyshape, however the resulting 10 songs are an entry into a world which is very much her own.

    “Her voice is just transfixing” - NPR Music

    “Horn’s debut album is a skeletal marvel that evokes Yo La Tengo and soft country shuffles” — The Guardian.

    "Deceptively gentle songs [...] they unfold like melodic dreams" — MOJO.

    "With the boiled-down quality of a good short story collection, [Optimism] is cryptic, bewildering and daringly simple" — Pitchfork.

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    Leaving Him
    After All This Time
    Days Go By
    The Dream
    Love In Return
    Old Friend
    Song For Eve
    In Between
    Energy Go
    The Way It Is

    Jana Horn

    Optimism

      Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, now widely available. Horn says the LP, "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in passing, a feeling of being in-between things. I was really mobile at that time, living wherever... I had just discovered, late, Raymond Carver Broadcast, Sybil Baier, Annette Peacock, Richard & Linda Thompson, a short story called “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson. I had “Heart Needs a Home” in mind, “The Great Valerio;” I was just really moving through the world, hanging in the shadows of the people I wanted to be. Hoping, looking out, this is Optimism. I was looking for anything."

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Friends Again
      2. Time Machine
      3. Optimism
      4. Changing Lives
      5. Man Meandering
      6. Tonight
      7. A Good Thing
      8. Jordan
      9. Driving
      10. When I Go Down Into The Night


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