Photo by Samuel Hess

To experience the aura of Jessica Pratt can be a transcendental one, conflating timelines of past, present, and future selves into a single thread. As much as we change, the times stay the same, however, and with her voice as the needle, we drift through the continuum in a soft flicker of light speed on “Life Is”, the lead single from the Los Angeles-based songwriter’s fourth studio album, Here in the Pitch. The voice breathing through the ether of her previous work is in close company here with the surrounding space inhabited by a haze of old Hollywood pastiche and ’60s psychedelic folk-pop and tempo, softly haunted by what may have been past peaks yet aging timelessly in a cosmic cool. “And so I try to be myself / It’s the same as always I get tricked up / And each and every time it takes me away,” she sings, allowing herself to drift along through with the one constant.

Directed by: Colby Droscher & Jessica Pratt

Jessica Pratt’s Here in the Pitch will be released May 3rd on Mexican Summer.