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 albums into a “successful” career. Except Jesca had to check her bank account before she felt she could afford to make another album. “I thought I was gonna go dead broke before I made this one”. I’m glad she did not, because Long Wave Home is exceptional - a real end-to-end delight and just about my favourite album of 2026 so far. I doubt anything will surpass it in my ears. True to form, she's already plotting the next creative wave while only fleetingly pausing to celebrate her own significance, influence and longevity. “To get to speak about an arc of a career. Whatever that looks like in terms of numbers, cast that aside. We’re still making records and we have the opportunity to figure out the challenges next time around, it’s life affirming. And, I don’t have a plan B so fuck it”. Now there is the spirit of a true and dedicated artist. The Art of Longevity Season 13 is powered by Bang & Olufsen. The book of the podcast, Riding the Rollercoaster, is now available. Support the showGet more related content at: https://www.songsommelier.com/