Scratch Magazine

Petracovich (a.k.a. Jessica Peters) built on her neo-folk background to add in post-trip-hop and post-electronica elements. The result is dreamy, melancholy, and features Peters on piano and Nord II keyboard. Jessica, with Tad Wagner (engineer/guitarist for Buellton) as co-producer and recording engineer, spent a year at Buonapasta Studios crafting this album. The effort shows in delicately poised arrangements and layers of carefully-applied sound. Somewhat lo-fi and delivered in a personal, breathy voice just above a whisper, this album is an intimate and warm album, despite the reliance on electronic tone coloring. What guitar that is present is sparsely applied—just like all the instrumentation—making this nearly a vocal album. Fans of Aimee Man and Beth Orton will appreciate this nine-song debut.

-Tom "Tearaway" Schulte