Jess Ribeiro / Mixtape LP Purple & Blue Vinyl
Jess Ribeiro 'Mixtape' LP Purple & Blue Vinyl
Limited Edition of 200. Hand numbered jackets!
Jess Ribeiro's Mix Tape LP is a collection of abandoned pathways, parallel timelines, maybes and what-ifs. Over eight demos and alternative song versions that were previously left on the cutting floor, she sings in her signature cinematic style about teenage memories, smoking cigarettes in the woods after dusk, late-night sorrow, the moment when someone you've been waiting for your whole life finally arrives, and the promise of fresh starts. Set against breezy guitars, rollicking drums and nostalgic synthesisers, her economical prose conjures up entire worlds within a few words, saying the most while saying the least.
After releasing three critically acclaimed solo albums over the last ten years and touring through Australia, America, Europe, and the UK, Mix Tape represents the end of a chapter . In her words, " A sharing of past processes. A demonstration of songs never performed or finished." Gathered from Australian recording sessions with Michael Vince Moin (Tram Cops), Jesse Williams, John Castle, and James Seymour, Mix Tape also features a piece tracked in Auckland, New Zealand, with Jeremy Toy as part of the 2019 APRA Songhubs program at Neil Finns Round head studios. Within these songs, you can hear Jess exploring different genres with different people. "In another life, I'd be a writer for other artists,” she says.
Opening with the hazy, lo-fi singer-songwriter sensibilities of 'Good Behaviour Bond' and the lush woodland psychedelia of 'My Heart is Opening (The Trees & Me), Mix Tape unfurls into a display of expansive indie pop via 'Summer of Love (80s Version)', before turning introspective and driving with 'Of Sorrow'. On the flip side, Jess goes dream-pop on 'Half-Baked’, gets confessional on 'Angelina', spins things into an expansive synth-folk space on 'Hush Baby', and closes out on an intimate, freak-folk tone with 'Monsters'.
Mastered by Casey Hartnett, Mix Tape is scheduled for release in July 2025 through Poison City Records. A limited run of vinyl LP copies will be exclusively available at shows when Jess and her band tour Australia in August and September.
