Name: Order of Romance
Brand: Jesca Hoop

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MI0729LP

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black

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-16

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PIAS

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5056340104422

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MI0729LPX

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MI0729CD

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Artist

Jesca Hoop

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Memphis Industries

Alex G - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/alex-g/god-save-the-animals/lp-plus?_kx=">God Save the Animals</a> The Philadelphia songwriter moves further away from lo-fi on his sonically rich and expansive new record.

Iceage - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/iceage/shake-the-feeling-outtakes-rarities-2015-2021/lp-plus?_kx=">Shake the Feeling: Outtakes &amp; Rarities 2015-2021</a> The acclaimed post-punk outfit digs through the archives for a compilation of deep cuts and b-sides that are as good as any album releases.

Beth Orton - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/beth-orton/weather-alive/lp-plus?_kx=">Weather Alive</a> Using an admittedly cheap upright piano installed in the shed of her garden, Beth Orton conjures an ethereal, meditative atmosphere.

The Soft Moon - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/the-soft-moon/exister/lp-plus?_kx=">Exister</a> The industrial-inflected new wave of Luis Vasquez continues to thrive on his most polished effort to date.

Jackie Cohen - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/jackie-cohen/pratfall/lp-plus?_kx=">Pratfall</a> Teaming up with her husband Jonathan Rado, the Los Angeles artist engulfs her indie pop in a warm embrace.

Rough Trade Edit

Jesca Hoop returns with her sixth album, Order of Romance, a record that fortifies her position as one of the most striking and original voices in contemporary music. Order of Romance is Hoop's most intricate and finely balanced album to date, one that draws on classic song writing, recalling anything from Gershwin to Paul Simon, but creating something that is unmistakably, indelibly Jesca Hoop. It is a deep dive into craft.

In the summer of 2021, Hoop once again ventured south from her adopted home of Manchester to Bristol to team up with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding), her collaborator for 2019’s Stonechild. This time additional assistance came from in Jess Vernon (This is the Kit) to arrange for a four-piece horn and woodwind quintet. Legendary drummer Seb Rochford lent his skills, John Thorne plays the bass and Chloe Foy and Rachel Rimmer were enlisted to deliver Hoop’s signature vocal arrangements. The result is a fruitful marriage of song craft and arrangement, brimming with a cinematic charm and lyrical wit that signify a new chapter full of new life for an artist who knows her mind, her heart and voice well enough to trust them in uncharted territory.

Order of Romance then is a complete work that demands close attention, an active listen, a filagree that’s apparent lightness of touch belies a serious intent. Themes of empathy and friendship, intertwine with a clear eyed and moralistic poetry on subjects such as gun control, religious and political cults, and climate change.

Order of Romance is perhaps ultimately an exploration of the endless balance act of being a ‘Human Being’, an approach and examination of some of the biggest theme and issues of our time through the doorway of the personal, a way finding meaning and some kind of faith in a world where so much is disconnected and discordant.