Jenny Owen Youngs

Mixing perceptiveness, playfulness, and earnestness, the tuneful adult alternative musings of Jenny Owen Youngs fall into the spectrum of bright singer/songwriter pop and atmospheric indie folk. She emerged as a member of the New York anti-folk scene of the 2000s alongside fellow SUNY Purchase alumni including Regina Spektor, with whom she toured with material from her self-released 2005 debut album, Batten the Hatches. It featured the TV-licensing breakthrough "Fuck Was I," leading to the Nettwerk label release of her second album, Transmitter Failure, in 2009. The self-relea...