Headline : Jessica Pratt Shows Us the Shadows of California’s Sixties Sunshine

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To the average listener hearing Jessica Pratt for the first time, it’s possible to mistake her for an artist from a different era. Her music sounds decades old, like an obscure artist unearthed from the dusty bin of a Midwestern antique shop. But this is not the Langley Schools Music Project, and Pratt is no Connie Converse. Born in 1987, the Los Angeles musician has been surprising people with her otherworldly indie folk since 2012. And now she’s returned with her fourth album, Here in the Pitch, out May 3 via Mexican Summer. 

On Here in the Pitch, Pratt evokes the past of her city, specifically the dark underbelly of the Sixties and Seventies. She adores the Beach Boys, but she’s also a diehard fan of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. “If you have an attraction to that era of time, generally, a lot of it goes hand in hand,” she says. “My music is often the product of an amalgamation of all of the influences that are going into my head.”

On an afternoon in late March, sitting at an Ethiopian restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Pratt walked us through the music that influenced Here in the Pitch. “They’re perennial tracks that I’ll have in my head all the time or constantly return to,” she says, tugging on some injera. “Everything here is a part of that. I think there is a through line with all of these songs: a sense of longing and a sense of loss. That undercurrent of darkness coupled with the sort of poppier, sunshine top layer. I really like the conflict of those two things together. You’ve got to have the darkness and the light.”

I’m pretty immersed in the Beach Boys’ lore. Maybe not in a completist sense, like some people, where really it’s their life’s work. But Brian Wilson is obviously a true genius, and Pet Sounds is probably my favorite album of all time. It’s like, biblical stuff — the sort of atmospheric qualities and the richness of the sounds of the instruments and their spatial relationship to each other. You can hear the space. Editor’s picks Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History

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