Jenny Owen Youngs
Wry, intimate folk-pop that feels like a late-night kitchen table confession. Sharp songwriting wrapped in warm acoustic textures and breathy, honest vocals.
Wry, intimate folk-pop that feels like a late-night kitchen table confession. Sharp songwriting wrapped in warm acoustic textures and breathy, honest vocals.
Jenny Owen Youngs creates music that feels like a well-worn sweater: comfortable, familiar, but with a few loose threads that reveal a deeper history. Her sound is anchored by a delicate balance of acoustic fragility and pop sensibility, often featuring fingerpicked guitars and subtle chamber arrangements. There is a tactile warmth to her recordings that makes the listener feel as though they are sitting in the room during the session.
What truly distinguishes Youngs is her lyrical voice. She possesses a rare ability to be simultaneously heartbreakingly sincere and devastatingly witty. She isn't afraid to use a well-placed curse word to puncture a moment of high drama, or to use a playful melody to mask a profound existential realization. Her songs often explore the friction between wanting to be seen and wanting to disappear, delivered with a breathy, conversational vocal style.
For those new to her work, the early classic Batten the Hatches provides the essential blueprint of her 'sad-girl-with-a-guitar' roots. However, her more recent work like Avalanche shows a sophisticated evolution into lush, atmospheric indie-folk. It is music for people who appreciate the small details of a story and the quiet power of a perfectly placed cello line.
Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released four albums and a handful of EPs both independently and via Nettwerk Records, and has toured worldwide. Youngs is also a songwriting collaborator whose cuts include the 2018 Panic! at the Disco single "High Hopes," as well as songs with Brett Dennen, Ingrid Michaelson, Shungudzo, Pitbull, and others. Youngs' songs have been used in TV shows such as Weeds, Grey's Anatomy, Nurse Jackie, Suburgatory, and Switched at Birth. In 2017, her 2012 song "Wake Up" was featured over the end credits of BoJack Horseman's season 4 finale. On March 28, 2018, it was announced that Youngs would work as the composer for Muscle Memory, a short film directed by Carly Usdin being made as a part of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. In 2018, she provided her voice in “Oh The Bliss” by Dan Romer, in the album for Far Cry 5.
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