Jessica Pratt is an American indie folk singer-songwriter, born in Redding, California in 1987, whose hushed voice and fingerpicked guitar recall Karen Dalton and Sibylle Baier. Quiet Signs (2019) and Here in the Pitch (2024) on Mexican Summer are the records to start with. Dig into Jessica Pratt vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Jessica Pratt was born in Redding, California in 1987 and was based in San Francisco before relocating to Los Angeles. Her self-titled debut Jessica Pratt (2012) was released on Birth Records (the label founded by Tim Presley of White Fence). She has since released material on Drag City and Mexican Summer. Her work has been widely cited as a defining contemporary indie folk and chamber pop voice, drawing extensively on classic 1960s and 1970s folk reference points (Karen Dalton, Bridget St. John, Sibylle Baier).
Jessica Pratt's sound combines indie folk, freak folk, chamber folk, dream folk, and singer-songwriter with her distinctive ethereal high-pitched vocal delivery, fingerpicked classical guitar work, and atmospheric arrangements drawing on classic British and American folk reference points alongside contemporary indie folk aesthetics.
Drag City and Mexican Summer pressings of the Jessica Pratt catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Jessica Pratt typically start with Quiet Signs (2019) or Here in the Pitch (2024).
