Jana Horn – Optimism [LP]

No Quarter

£21.58

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: NOQ079LP
Barcode: 0843563147528
Release Date: 21 Jan 2022
Genre: Folk/Americana

Press confirmed to run on this includes a lead full page review in Uncut and a boxed out review in MOJO. The Guardian are also running a feature with interview & much more tbc. Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, now widely available. Horn says the LP, "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in passing, a feeling of being in-between things. I was really mobile at that time, living wherever... I had just discovered, late, Raymond Carver Broadcast, Sybil Baier, Annette Peacock, Richard & Linda Thompson, a short story called “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson. I had “Heart Needs a Home” in mind, “The Great Valerio;” I was just really moving through the world, hanging in the shadows of the people I wanted to be. Hoping, looking out, this is Optimism. I was looking for anything."

Track listing: 1 Friends Again 2 Time Machine 3 Optimism 4 Changing Lives 5 Man Meandering 6 Tonight 7 A Good Thing 8 Jordan 9 Driving 10 When I Go Down Into The Night