Jessica Pratt is an artist who never dreamed of a career in music. She didn’t think about going on tour or releasing records. After picking up a cheap nylon string as a teenager, she began to write songs without “evaluating why”. White Fence main man Tim Presley heard some old recordings she had made, loving them so much he founded a record label just to release them.

“I didn’t even care if it sold 100 copies, I loved it that much. I had this future death-bed moment, I could either pay rent comfortably for three months or put this record into the world.”

With just an acoustic guitar and her voice, this is way more than folk, it’s subtly hallucinatory psychedelia. Her voice is unique, it’s unclear what time it is from. And she’s a virtuoso guitar player, setting up the songs with circular peaks and troughs of sound.

“It’s really just about being at the mercy of those waves,” she says.

DEC TOUR DATES

SAT 5TH – FAIRGROUNDS, NSW
TUE 8TH – NEWTOWN SOCIAL CLUB, SYDNEY
WED 9TH – BLACK BEAR LODGE, BRISBANE
THU 10TH – NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB, MELBOURNE
SAT 12TH – MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL, VIC

On Your Own Love Again is available now.