Jessy Lanza’s Journey From Jazz History To Oh No‘s Experimental Pop
In May I wrote about Jessy Lanza’s luminous sophomore album, Oh No, a record driven as much by her skill as an experimental electronic composer as it is by her singular voice. The electronic music world is even more male-dominated than the rest of the music industry, and Lanza shines like a beacon in a genre that can seem particularly dark or uncreative. But even if both of her solo albums–2013’s Pull My Hair Back (which was short-listed for the Polaris Prize) and this year’s Oh No–have been met with critical acclaim and success, that doesn’t mean things have always been easy for her.