Jesse Jo Stark’s Down Your Drain September 3rd

Steve Jones-produced Debut EP Down Your Drain To Be Released on September 3rd

Jesse Jo Stark will release her debut EP Down Your Drain on September 3rd. Recorded in Jesse Jo’s native LA, and produced by The Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones, Down Your Drain is an impressive introduction to a fierce young talent.

Distilling her influences into a pastiche of loss, lust, and love, Jesse Jo effectively architected something of a musical mosaic for her first recordings. Her long held “obsession” with Frankenstein and Dracula, an appreciation for the innocence of the 1950s and her love of The Cramps, punk and country, all creep into her songwriting and infuse the visual presentation with her own inimitable style. Down Your Drain is equal parts Morticia Adams and Alison Mosshart and it’s one of the most perfectly formed starting points for an illustrious musical career you’ll ever hear.

Title track “Down Your Drain” drips from a surf guitar twang into cheeky B-movie warbles before what she calls, the “Spaghetti Western tumbleweed” sound, blows past. Over that soundscape, Jesse slips from a haunting croon into a hypnotic come hither. “Baby Love” begins with a pronounced beat and guitar click punctuated by Jesse Jo’s vivid lyricism. “Electric Baby” shocks with a sizzling refrain and up-tempo march as “Teardrop Johnny” breaks out of the gate on a loose guitar riff and the singer’s robust delivery.

At just 23 years of age Jesse Jo has already found international attention as a designer, artist and muse. Growing up in Malibu, California, her unique and playful fashion sense was noticed by the Internet’s fastidious style crowd while she was still a teenager. At 13 – and again at 16 – she was photographed by Gilles Bensimon for Elle magazine. At 19, she designed her first punk-inspired collection, Pete Punk, for Chrome Hearts, the iconic LA-based luxury goods company her parents founded in the late eighties. The collection found immediate distinction both editorially and commercially and at 20 she was asked to design two capsule collections for skate company Vans: the spirited Vans x Jesse Jo. Just as her gift for design blossomed early so did her talent for singing and performing. As young women around the world became captivated by Jesse Jo’s inherent style she continued to hone her skills for that other lifelong passion: music. A natural performer, she’s taken her band on international jaunts to perform shows at events at Art Basel, for Elle Girl in Tokyo, and for fashion houses Collette in Paris and Marni in Berlin. Back home in Los Angeles she already has enough of a following to fill The Troubadour.

Jesse Jo first embraced music as a kid. She can even pinpoint the exact moment she “got” The Clash. (Gateway track: “Should I Stay Or Should I Go”). She inherited her love of rock and roll and fashion from her parents and grew up immersed in both. When not in the recording studio she can usually be found in her office at the LA Chrome Hearts factory where she continues to design. Still, for Jesse Jo, everything circles back to music always and forever. This is just the beginning.

“Jesse Jo is a creative dynamo…meet the coolest girl on any block.” Foam Magazine