Jess Ribeiro - LOVE HATE (2019)

Jess Ribeiro is a shape-shifting musical enigma. The near-untouchable quality of her recorded output is astonishingly consistent and the wait for new music is always worthwhile. Ribeiro's 2012 debut album My Little River was an award-winning folk-country masterpiece while her second album (2015s Kill It Yourself) was a slow-burning indie-noire masterpiece which left reviewers scrambling for superlatives. Now, with new album LOVE HATE, Ribeiro has kissed the swampy humidity of the Australian Music Prize-nominated Kill It Yourself goodbye, and embraced the precise down-strokes and valve-amp hum of a very New York lineage, from the Velvets through to Blondie and Talking Heads. Produced by Ben Edwards (Aldous Harding/Marlon Williams), its capped by those lethally cool vocals for which Ribeiro is revered.On LOVE HATE Ribeiro traverses the landscapes of love: its amorous peaks, its rough rivers, and its dark valleys. Much like a concept album Ribeiro ponders the metamorphisis of the many stages of love attraction, passion, infatuation, adulation, longing, submissiveness, and madness.