Jessica Pratt is releasing Here in the Pitch — the follow-up 2019's beautiful Quiet Signs — on May 3, and so far we've heard thrumming album opener "Life Is," which took Pratt's traditionally acoustic sound to a realm of '60s pop fantasia.
Today, we get another taste of the album in "World on a String," which again finds Pratt expanding her sound, albeit in more subtle ways. The song is a gentle acoustic sway that blooms with sweeping, synth-smeared hooks and occasional percussion.
"I used to want for what your desolation hadn't come by / And as your seconds spark our turning off and turning up now... I want to be the sunlight of the century / I want to be a vestige of our senses free," Pratt sings on the chorus.
"On this track I was influenced by the swaying, naive brilliance of 'lost' teenage garage rock bands, as well as enduring loves like the Nazz and Guided by Voices," Pratt said in a statement about the song. "Record the song moments after you've learned it on an instrument you've just picked up. Oftentimes, that's all you need."
"World on a String" comes attached to a video directed by Kate Bollinger. According to Bollinger, the video was inspired by a "mondo style march-of-the-pagan village meets field of freaks," but for me, it mostly conjures the freak-folk and psych-pop videos of 2008, which is never a bad thing. Nostalgia comes in many flavours!
Check it out below.
