About this episode

Jesca Hoop discusses her new record and the challenges of starting anew in the creative process.

Jesca Hoop describes her new record as "a vote of confidence...an investment in myself as an artist and authority over my vocation and life's path." Asked to unpack that, she goes straight to the unsettling fear beneath creating anew each time in the album cycle: starting a new chapter with "no songs, perhaps no solution for a release," just a blank slate with a big question mark in the middle. In the end, "It was just the decision that the candle was worth the wick." Hoop is now seven ...

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Host: The Song Sommelier

Guest: Jesca Hoop

Topics covered

• music creation
• artist confidence
• album cycle
• personal investment
• creative process

Keywords

• Jesca Hoop
• new record
• album cycle
• creative process
• artist confidence

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