DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS OF JESCA HOOP
Californian-turned-Mancunian Jesca Hoop calls the microphone "my favourite instrument in the world" and when you hear the way the she can use, even manipulate, that instrument – well beyond softer or louder, closer or further away - it makes perfect sense. In songs that cross from art rock and indie pop to something nearer one of her early mentors Tom Waits (whose children she looked after for a while) and even the life affirming closeness in the work of friends, supporters a