Nostalgia Kills (CD)

Jill's 2018 release! On Nostalgia Kills, the woman hailed by The New York Times for making “grown-up music for an adolescent age” turns her warm wit and poet’s eye on herself more than ever before, revisiting moments throughout her life that made her into the person she is today. It’s an especially poignant look back at childhood — “exorcising some junior high school demons,” as she puts it. Produced by her good friend, Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee, the music on Nostalgia Kills has been chosen from a collection of over 100 songs, representing nearly a decade’s worth of material since the release of her last proper solo album, California Years (2009). The album was recorded at Lee’s home studio in Los Angeles with a supporting cast of players that included John Doe (X), Wayne Kramer (The MC5), Petra Haden (That Dog), Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Jellyfish), and Richard Barone (The Bongos). “This was done with a lot of friends,” she says. “It was very organic.” Many of the final mix