Jess Williamson

Singer and songwriter Jess Williamson is an artist whose music looks to the past for inspiration but is performed with an updated outlook and emotional range that give it a thoroughly contemporary feel. Williamson's spare and evocative melodies and poetic, deeply personal lyrics are influenced by psychedelia and the songwriters' movement of the '70s, yet the breathy soprano voice and blend of acoustic and electric textures in her performances put her in step with her indie folk contemporaries. Williamson's music was at its simplest and most introspective on her 2014 debut albu...