The Art of Longevity Season 13, Episode 7: Jesca Hoop

Jesca Hoop describes her new record as "a vote of confidence...an investment in myself as an artist and authority over my vocation and life's path." Asked to unpack that, she goes straight to the unsettling fear beneath creating anew each time in the album cycle: starting a new chapter with "no songs, perhaps no solution for a release," just a blank slate with a big question mark in the middle. In the end, "It was just the decision that the candle was worth the wick." Hoop is now seven ...