Jessica Pratt announces new album Here in the Pitch

Jessica Pratt has announced a new album, her first in five years. On May 3 she’ll release Here in the Pitch via Mexican Summer. Today she’s shared a new song, “Life Is,” which you can hear below. She’s also lined up tour dates in Europe and on the West Coast in the U.S. this summer. Check those out below.

“Life came and went and you didn’t land where you thought you would,” Pratt said of the new song in a statement. “It’s the third act and you’re trying to climb back on the horse before it gets dark.”

Here in the Pitch follows 2019’s Quiet Signs. Her 2015 album On Your Own Love Again is featured on our list of 10 Essential Home-Recorded Albums.

Jessica Pratt Here in the Pitch tracklist:

1. Life Is
2. Better Hate
3. World on a String
4. Get Your Head Out
5. By Hook or by Crook
6. Nowhere It Was
7. Empires Never Know
8. Glances
9. The Last Year

Jessica Pratt tour dates:

May 31 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
June 2 – Paris, FR @ L’Alhambra *
June 3 – Brussels, BE @ AB Theater *
June 4 – Amsterdam, NL @ Zonnehuis *
June 6 – London, UK @ Union Chapel *
June 20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
June 21 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s
June 22 – San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 Club
June 26 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
June 27 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
July 24 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
July 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
July 27 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
 
* = support from Joanna Sternberg