Jess Ribeiro - Summer of Love

Jess Ribeiro - Summer of LoveAcross the ten tracks on Jess Ribeiro's Summer of Love, she traverses isolation, loss, tiny snatches of love, expectation versus reality, once in a century pandemics and healing. It was written and recorded during a particularly unstable time, with Ribeiro living in nine different houses across a two year period, including six months in a church outside of the city, "That instability affected my mental health,"she says. It also created the spark for

Across the ten tracks on Jess Ribeiro's Summer of Love, she traverses isolation, loss, tiny snatches of love, expectation versus reality, once-in-a-century pandemics and healing.

It was written and recorded during a particularly unstable time, with Ribeiro living in nine different houses across a two year period, including six months in a church outside of the city, "That instability affected my mental health,"she says. It also created the spark for her fourth album, on which she transfixes audiences as she digs deep into the present, past, and wanted future.

The first demos for Summer of Love were put down at a solar-powered shack by Jess with her friend and musical collaborator Dave Mudie (Courtney Barnett, Super American Eagle), an experience that wasn't without excitement: "We used all the solar power trying to record. It ended with us around a fire for the rest of the night, terrified that the boars were going to get us." From there, she recorded the album with Nick Huggins on Wa