Jesca Hoop: The House That Jack Built – review

(Curuja)Perhaps the most surprising thing about Jesca Hoop's back story – a Mormon upbringing, a period sleeping out in the wilderness, a job nannying Tom Waits's kids – is how little eccentricity it seems to have conferred on her music. Her third album has plenty of likable qualities: mild lyrical quirkiness (making doe eyes at Banksy), moderate eclecticism (dabbling in 70s MOR and breathy electropop), and an unerring knack for hummable melodies. But only when grappling painfully with memor...

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