Album artwork for Optimism by Jana Horn

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 and 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."

Jana Horn

Optimism

No Quarter
Album artwork for Optimism by Jana Horn
LP

£22.99

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Released 21/01/2022Catalogue Number

NOQ079LP

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Album artwork for Optimism by Jana Horn
CD

£12.99

Released 21/01/2022Catalogue Number

NOQ079CD

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Jana Horn

Optimism

No Quarter
Album artwork for Optimism by Jana Horn
LP

£22.99

Black
Released 21/01/2022Catalogue Number

NOQ079LP

Learn more
Album artwork for Optimism by Jana Horn
CD

£12.99

Released 21/01/2022Catalogue Number

NOQ079CD

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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 and 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."