Jess Cornelius
Jess Cornelius’s latest single, “No Difference,” was featured by NPR’s All Songs Considered as well as Paste Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, Hype Machine and Uproxx, who called it “a striking stateside introduction.”
Now based in LA, New Zealand-born and raised Jess Cornelius grew up musically in Australia, where she released three critically acclaimed albums with her Melbourne-based project Teeth & Tongue, receiving nominations for the Australian Music Prize and a J-Award in 2016.
Renowned for the seductive state of ease and intensity she occupies in live performance, Cornelius won crowds the world over playing alongside Courtney Barnett, J. Mascis, Juana Mollina and Laura Marling, as well as at Meredith Music Festival, Laneway Festival, Falls Festival and SXSW. In 2017 she stepped away from the Teeth & Tongue moniker and released the minimal and stripped-back ‘Nothing is Lost’ EP under her own name before embarking on a US-wide tour with Paul Kelly.
In keeping with Cornelius’s continual and unflinching exploration of her own experience and relationship to the world, Cornelius’s latest single ’No Difference’ is part fatalistic resignation, part zen-leaning self-help mantra. It was added to Gorilla vs Bear’s Best Songs of 2019 playlist and Spotify’s New Music Friday and Indie Arrivals playlists, as well as reaching #1 on Australia’s AMRAP Community Radio Chart.
Cornelius’s new album is due out in mid 2020 and was recorded in Los Angeles with collaborators Steven Urgo (War On Drugs), Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), harpist Mary Lattimore, Emily Elhaj (Angel Olsen) and producer Tony Buchen (Montaigne, Preatures, Tim Finn).