Occasionally one comes across an artist that is undefinable…not in a self-indulgent way…
But in a way that is sublimely familiar, an earworm that burrows deeply into the confines of your soul.
Jesika von Rabbit is what popular music would sound like if it wasn’t some micro-engineered creation conjured up by two dozen producers, mixers, and co-writers in an artificial intelligence laboratory in Stockholm.
Formerly the frontwoman and chief songwriter of the successful and iconic Joshua Tree act Gram Rabbit, von Rabbit has released two critically lauded solo albums, Journey Mitchell and Dessert Rock, along with a bevy of singles and visually arresting videos.
Mind-bending, sexy, weird, medicated, and endearing, von Rabbit’s art is a blast of candy cane shrapnel full of utter madness, brilliance, and complexity. Intelligent and whimsical, vulnerable and sarcastic, ironic and riotous, her lyrical content is one of the observer, the questioner, and the contrarian. Yet at heart, she’s a pop artist, one with the guts to take musical risks you wished that Top 40 pop princesses had the guts to make.
Von Rabbit is currently hard at work on her third album to be released later this year.
Today Glide is premiering the video for her new tune “Desert Rain,” a twangy number that captures the eerily beautiful feeling of the landscape she inhabits. Embracing the kind of Orville Peck-style troubadourism of country music along with a dreamy psych-pop sound, the song is sparse and enchanting. At the center is von Rabbit’s magnetic presence, which pulls you into its world. The video captures her wandering the desert landscape and strumming her guitar to provide a fitting visual for the music.
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Long live the queen of the high desert!????????????