Second album CARE/TAKING is due for release June 14, 2024 on Tender Loving Empire Records. First single "People Move On" is out now. 

Currently based in Los Angeles, New Zealand-born Jess Cornelius spent her musically formative years in Australia where she released four critically acclaimed albums under the moniker Teeth & Tongue.

In 2016 Cornelius began working under her own name, and moved to Los Angeles after releasing the ‘Nothing is Lost’ EP. Her follow-up album, “Distance”  was released on Loantaka and Part Time Records in 2020.

Jess Cornelius writes arresting songs that capture the disorientation and endless possibilities of being in flux.  Where Cornelius’ 2020 debut Distance found her untethered moving across continents, CARE/TAKING has the songwriter firmly established in her California home but no less at a crossroads. Over 10 intricate and immediate songs, she grapples with squaring global crises  with the transformations and responsibilities in her life. It’s searching indie rock that’s as biting as it is comforting.

Praise for Distance:

"An incredible new record" - NPR Music, Robin Hilton

"This album opened up a whole new fandom for me" - NPR Music, Ann Powers

"Winning songs about finding delight in despair...Cornelius handles heaviness with an enviable lightness, finding new resiliency in every rebound." - Pitchfork

"A kind of 21st century amalgam of Karen Dalton's delicate folk and 70s jam band Americana" - Guardian

In the mid 2000s, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens said he was going to make on album for all 50 US states, but he gave up after 2 albums because he's a coward. In March of 2020, I banded together with the goofs of the internet while under quarantine to finish this project once and for all. 

- My name is Joey Clift! I'm a comedy writer and I picked up the ball Sufjan Stevens was too scared to carry and took it all the way to the endzone with help from hundreds of people. Follow me on twitter here - https://twitter.com/joeytainment

- First 26 Albums Released on 4/16/20
- 14 More Albums (+2 EPs) Released 5/4/20
- Final 10 States Released: 5/27/20

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