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Sarah Jaffe Born January 29 1986 Is An American Singer-Songwriter From Denton Texas. Her First Full-Length Album Suburban Nature Was Released In May 2010. If There Is One Thing That Sarah Jaffe Will Never Have To Contend With It Is The Idea That She Is A Female Singer For Females. There Once Was A Time That Being A Female Singer Meant You Would Undoubtedly Be Put Into An All Too Snug Box. Is She An Angry Singer? An Activist Singer? A Singer For The Victimor The Singer Your Mom Bonds With You Over? To Be Honest When Sarah’s New CD Suburban Nature Was Released On May 18th She Inserted Herself Into And Destroyed All Those Boxes Simultaneously Because Sarah Is A Truth Singer...And No Matter Who Or What We Are We All Need And Want Our Singers To Be Truth Singers. Jaffe’s Words And Voice Seem Like They Are Speaking To You Only To You Yet They Contain A Universal Appeal Evidenced By The Fact That She Has Recently Toured With Midlake And Norah Jones -- Two Completely Different Audiences Who Jaffe Equally Endearing And Confident Easily Won Over. Growing Up In Red Oak Texas Might Not Be Ideal Circumstances For Breeding The Kind Of Talent That Is Encompassed In Sarah’s Songs But It Does Beg The Question Of Nature Verses Nurture. What We Have In Us Before We Are Even Us And What We Interpret Because Of Life Circumstances. Writing Since Her Early Teens Many Of The Songs Featured On Suburban Nature Were Written Long Before She Could Even Enter The Clubs Where They Are Now Performed. Interestingly Enough The First Single “Vulnerable ” Was Written When Sarah Was Only 17 Long Before Even The Material On Her First EP The Acclaimed Even Born Again Was Produced. Even So It Comprises Everything That Matters About Her Voice. If There Is One Thread That Flows Through All Of Sarah’s Work It Is Grappling With The Self-Serving Cycles That Are In All Of Us And The Aftermath That Those Needs Deal Out. “I’m A Fan Of Life’s Wicked Ironies. These Things That Reveal The Truth From An Aerial View Nowhere Near Your Perspective Of The Situation And Through These Realizations You Find Redemption.” And So It Is With Suburban Nature. From Opening Track “Before You Go ” Everything Sounds As Wide And Deep As The Grand Canyon The Sonic Spread Covering Every Degree Of The Mix. It’s Thick Enough To Feel When You Breathe But Spatial Enough To Allow For The One Thing That Truly Matters With Singer/songwriters Their Voice. When Talking To The Album's Producer And Engineer John Congleton St Vincent Polyphonic Spree Explosions In The Sky Clinic About The Spacious Feel Of The Album He Had This To Say On The Matter “I Think It Was Intentional. Both Sarah’s And My Feelings On This Was That The Vocal Should Be The Focal Point Have As Much Space As Possible While The Music Provided An Emotional Backdrop.” Skilled Players Such As Kris Youmans - Cello Bill Callahan The Paper Chase Micah P Hinson Becki Howard – Violin The Crash That Took Me Jeff Ryan – Percussion The Baptist Generals St Vincent Pleasant Grove And Robert Gomez - Guitar As Himself Provide This Essential Emotional Backdrop. Just Take A Listen To “Pretender” For An Example Of The Power And Talent Contained In This Group Of Players. Layers Of Moveable Music Float In Out Under And Over Lines Such As “So Here We Stand Like Flowers In The Cold Wilt And Wither/Here's Your Chance/Tell Me What You Want/I'm A Forgiver.” In Other Situations The Group Provide The Perfect Backbeat So Sarah Is Free To Spin Yarn That Might Not Always Be Fact But Like We Said Is Certainly Truth. On “Clementine ” She Sings “We Were Young We Were Young We Were Young We Didn't Care.” Although Only 24 You Actually Believe Her. You Believe Her Because You Believe That No Matter What Her Actual Age She Lived Through The War Of A Relationship Or Fifty That Aged Her To Her Core And Now Her Soul Speaks To Yours In The Places Where You Have Aged And Set Down Roots That Flow As Grid In A Suburb Becoming Part Of Your Nature. This Is Why We Need Singers Like Sarah Jaffe And Albums Like Suburban Nature We Need A Truth Singer To Be A Soothsayer And Help Heal Us In The Broken Places Of Our Time. Since The Release Of Suburban Nature Sarah Has Toured Constantly Hitting Both Europe And The US With Midlake As Well As Supporting Such Varied Artists As Norah Jones Lou Barlow Centro-Matic And Old 97s. “Clementine” Sarah’s Debut Single Reached The #1 Spot At Various Radio Stations Including Austin’s Influential KGSR And Sirus’ Spectrum. Sarah And Suburban Nature Landed In Many 2010 “Best Of Lists” Including Paste Magazine’s 10 Best New Solo Artists 50 Best Albums And 50 Best Songs Amazon.Com’s Best Albums And Song’s USA Today’s Pop Candy 100 People Of 2010. Sarah Released The Way Sound Leaves A Room A CD/DVD Combo In Fall 2011. In Early 2012 Sarah Released The Follow Up To Suburban Nature The Body Wins. read less