{"id":666,"date":"2007-09-19T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/2007\/09\/19\/jesca-hoop-kismet\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:33:14","slug":"jesca-hoop-kismet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/jesca-hoop-kismet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesca Hoop &#8211; Kismet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/jesca_hoop.jpg\" alt=\"Jesca Hoop - Kismet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I work on getting this blog into shape and I tinker with plug-ins and code and ideas, I keep listening to music. And there&#8217;s just too much to talk about these days to keep quiet about it. I can&#8217;t wait. So here&#8217;s a little something about Ms. Hoop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been hearing a great deal about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jescahoop.com\" title=\"Jesca Hoop\">Jesca Hoop<\/a> for the past year or two. I never caught her act, but she cropped up in &#8220;Best Local Artist&#8221; lists for months, and if you had KCRW on for any length of time on a given day you were likely to hear &#8220;Seed Of Wonder.&#8221; Finally, her full-length is on shelves, and it seems worth the wait. It&#8217;s a complex, spiraling work that immediately calls to mind other recent releases in this vein, such as St. Vincent&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wm02.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;token=ADFEAEE47B16D947A57520D39B3348E9A77AEA1ACF56FB9C1B6E495AD1A9675B9C1877F359E9D0D2B0F36AB679AFF862A55A05D6CEE457F5CC0640&amp;sql=10:jvfrxzy5ld0e\" title=\"allmusic\">Marry Me<\/a>&#8221; and Justine Electra&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wm02.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;token=ADFEAEE47B16D947A57520D39B3348E9A77AEA1ACF56FB9C1B6E495AD1A9675B9C1877F359E9D0D2B0F36AB679AFF862A55A05D6C9E452FDCC0640&amp;sql=10:hcfixqudldfe\" title=\"allmusic\">Soft Rock<\/a>.&#8221; But she&#8217;s got a crystalline quality all her own and within a few hours has managed to dominate my playlist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/mpthree\/jesca_hoop.mp3\">Jesca Hoop &#8211; &#8220;Intelligentactile 101&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/jesca_hoop.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Jesca Hoop - Kismet' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[232,233],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}