Hurt So Good

posted in: Artist Features • Pop

 

It’s not every artist who asks for your shoe size along with your name and email on his/her mailing list sign up form. But Nashville’s Jesi Kettering is just a smidgen more fanciful than most. Her songs are infused with whimsy, wrapped in quiet, breathless melodies. Full Circle is a dreamy echo chamber of ambient beats, guitar reverb and Kettering’s honeyed vocals. All of her songs are delivered softly and sweetly. Oh No, even as it bemoans the act of falling for someone, is a quiet little love song made up of acoustic guitars and brushed drums. In I Fell In Love, she tackles the same sore subject, this time with guitar, piano and violin. Call me a fool if I sound masochistic / If this counts as pain I want more, she sings. Ditto that.