Name: My Light, My Destroyer
Brand: Cassandra Jenkins

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2024-07-12

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2024-11-19

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Cassandra Jenkins

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Rock-Pop

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Dead Oceans

Cassandra Jenkins is a talented singer-songwriter known for her introspective and poetic lyrics. With a captivating voice and unique musical style, she has gained recognition in the indie folk scene. Her music combines elements of folk, rock, and pop, creating a sound that is both soothing and thought-provoking. Cassandra's heartfelt performances have touched the hearts of many listeners around the world. Whether performing solo or with her band, she never fails to deliver an unforgettable experience.

Born and raised in [City], Cassandra developed a passion for music at an early age. Inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, she began writing her own songs as a form of self-expression. After honing her skills in local venues, Cassandra released her debut album [Album Name] to critical acclaim. Since then, she has continued to captivate audiences with her soulful melodies and insightful lyrics.

In addition to her solo work, Cassandra has collaborated with various musicians and bands throughout her career. She has toured extensively across [Country/Region], sharing stages with renowned artists such as [Artist Name]. Her live performances are known for their intimate atmosphere and raw emotion.

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Cassandra Jenkins is quite simply one of the best songwriter-storytellers currently making music. Hers is a specific and singular corner of the Great American Songwriters, artists like David Berman, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Tweedy and Sufjan Stevens. They’re artists connected by a sense of immediacy, not just in the writing – which is precise, evocative, brutal at times, pitch-back funny right when you need it – but by their delivery, by the way they sing with an immersive, total belief that carries you through their songs. These are the artists and songs that sneak up and really live with us forever, and on My Light, My Destroyer, Jenkins joins their ranks.

What’s most remarkable about My Light, My Destroyer is it captures an artist at an exciting leap in her evolution. So much about the album feels of-a-kind with its predecessors; field recordings and found sound permeate, narrative songwriting crashes into heady, swirling compositions. Jenkins sings with what can only be described as a power- whisper (think Sufjan Stevens, Annie Lennox, Margo Timmins or YHF-era Tweedy), her vocals up close and intimate but subtly confrontational. But it all feels bigger here, more finely honed, bolder and richer than her previous work and than her peers.

Born and raised in New York City, Jenkins has been touring and performing since she was a child, self-releasing her early recordings before releasing breakthrough An Overview on Phenomenal Nature in 2021. On My Light, My Destroyer, many of the songs are devoted to specific feelings, and to really getting inside those feelings as opposed to getting inside a narrative arc. Lead single “Only one” is one example, as Jenkins’s asserts that a moment, or a song, can be wholly myopic; it can embody a singular feeling, and provides no answers.

Songs like Devotion, Delphinium Blue, Clams Casino, Echo, and Only One, speak to the liberating quality of focused observation, even to the point of disillusionment. “There’s this idea about disillusionment that I’ve held onto,” she says. “I really appreciate disillusionment as a process to discover new, unexpected outcomes. We let go of expectations this way. Expectations hold us back. It’s easy to focus on jadedness or disappointment but I actually see it more as freedom.”

&nbsp;5 Track Bonus CD:&nbsp; This CD is a cosmic companion to the album that gazes skyward, taking a closer look at its astral side. I took so much pleasure in revisiting the sounds, textures and voices that make up the record, and what came from that process is a collage that rearranges elemental album moments with fragments from the cutting room floor to expand on the definitive versions of the songs. I wanted to share some of the intimacy I experienced through the recording process, including Hailey's outtakes, Molly Lewis' unabridged recording from a hotel room in Paris, studio experiments with Meg Duffy, a phone call with a wildlife rehabilitator, and an extended summer walk through New York to accompany a live take of my favorite standard, "Stardust," recorded late at night at Figure 8 in Brooklyn with some of my dearest friends.

My Light, My Destroyer

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Discover My Light, My Destroyer by Cassandra Jenkins on Dead Oceans. A captivating album showcasing Jenkins' storytelling prowess. Available in vinyl format.