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Label Kirtland
Release Date May 18, 2010
Photographer: Paul Samples.
Personnel: Sarah Jaffe (vocals, guitar); Robert Gomez (guitar, accordion, piano, Wurlitzer organ, vibraphone, marimbula); Becki Howard (violin); Kris Youmans (cello); Jeff Ryan (vibraphone, drums, percussion).
Recording information: Elmwood Funeral Home (2008); The Track Studio, Dallas, TX (2008).

1. Before You Go
2. Stay with Me
3. Clementine





"Clementine" is the first video from Denton, TX singer/songwriter Sarah Jaffe's recent full-length debut Suburban Nature. "I didn't want the video to have a solid plot, or blatant storyline. I wanted something that could be taken in many different ways." Director Jon Collins adds "We really wanted to tie the imagery in to certain aspects of the emotion the song deals with. I like leaving the meaning up to the viewer. I like conversation pieces." More DC on Suburban Nature here.

4. Better Than Nothing
5. Vulnerable
6. Wreaking Havoc
7. Summer Begs
8. Pretender, Pt. 1
9. Pretender
10. Luv
11. Swelling
12. Watch Me Fall Apart
13. Perfect Plan



Sarah Jaffe's debut sounds a bit like pre-More Adventurous Rilo Kiley: folksy, sparse, and more indebted to the D.I.Y. songwriter scene than the commercial coffee house fare that orchestrates montage sequences in Grey's Anatomy. Recorded in 2008 and released two years later, it chronicles the first chapter of Jaffe's career, collecting songs written during her teenage years as well as a sampling of recent material. Suburban Nature isn't entirely a solo album, though; Jaffe writes the music herself, but the songs come to life thanks to her backing band, a tasteful four-piece that includes two string players and the multi-instrumentalist Robert Gomez. It's thanks to those musicians that Jaffe is able to blaze her own trail in the crowded female folkster market, and one of Suburban Nature's biggest strengths is the way her band frames her vocals with arrangements that are alternately minimalist and lush. ~ Andrew Leahey