"People Move On was written amid the disintegration of a pretty significant relationship. Although I was probably terrified, this song feels like me trying to convince myself otherwise: that people do this all the time, that they move on, that they survive, that there are better things on the other side. I think for this reason the song has the driving, forward momentum that it does. It was an act of manifestation, propelling us into the future." - Jess

Co-produced with Mikal Cronin and recorded at Ty Segall’s Harmonizer studios, People Move On” is the first single off Jess Cornelius’s new album CARE/TAKING.

People Move On

Back to the Mainland

Laps in the Drugstore

CARE/TAKING

Desire

The Surgeon

Tui Is a Bird (The Work)

To the Desert

Cloud Postcard

When I Was Alive

Dying

"Jealousy is one of those hideous emotions that stops us from being able to be happy, for others and ourselves. It's insidious and destructive, and it's also totally human."

Jess Cornelius is the New Zealand-born songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist behind Teeth & Tongue. Over the course of four critically-acclaimed albums, Teeth & Tongue gradually morphed from a solo project into a more collaborative 'band-like' affair, culminating in the 2016 album Give Up On Your Health, which was released through Dot Dash/Remote Control in Australia and Dot Dash/ Captured Tracks in North America.

The album was nominated for a J Award and the Australian Music Prize, named Album of the Week on 3RRR and Feature Album on Double J, and featured in Rolling Stone, The Fader and Lena Dunham's Lenny magazine.

Now Jess Cornelius is focusing on a new solo project under her own name, with material that is more stripped back, personal and lyrically direct. Her solo performances showcase her voice and songwriting to full effect as she performs new music from her upcoming release, out in late 2017.

Jess Cornelius has performed at Laneway Festival, Meredith Music Festival, Falls Festival, Boogie, SXSW, CMJ, Perth International Arts Festival and Darwin Festival. She has toured with Courtney Barnett and Vance Joy and performed as a musical guest on several episodes of SBS Television's 'Rockwiz' series. She has also supported J Mascis, Sons & Daughters, EMA, Juana Molina, The Dodos, The Mountain Goats, the Drones and Laura Marling, and in 2013 was invited to make an EP in public at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Jealousy (Single version)

Nothing Is Lost (Streaming Master)

Jealousy

What Do I Look Like, Stupid? (Bonus vinyl-only track)

Taken off the 'Nothing Is Lost' EP. Available on vinyl & digital via Bandcamp.
https://jesscornelius.bandcamp.com/releases

Love And Low Self Esteem (single version)

Jess Cornelius, the New Zealand-born, Australian-raised, and now Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter, has an intense desire for personal authenticity, which is reflected in her songs as they explore womanhood, relationships, ageing and existence, all delivered through her startling voice. 

“No Difference” was written in Melbourne before moving to Los Angeles while trying to navigate everything going on in her life. The song is part self-help mantra, part blind fatalism. Its video, directed by Thomas Hyland, was filmed in a bathroom in Melbourne and features friends and acquaintances of Cornelius. 

“We wanted to introduce the water element because of its cleansing/rebirthing properties, but water is also destructive, and the image of someone wearing a white suit in a full bathtub implies someone slightly unhinged,” says Cornelius. “We wanted to expand on this idea of rebirth by showing all these women having miniature moments of self-reckoning, which is what I feel people often do in the bathroom. We use the bathroom—and the bathroom mirror—to collect ourselves, to recover, to psych ourselves up, to escape, to self destruct, to castigate ourselves, to tally up our worth, to make deals with ourselves, to re-evaluate, to preen and primp and steel ourselves.”

WATCH “NO DIFFERENCE” VIDEO -
https://youtu.be/XYDbx6L2Wuk

After releasing three critically acclaimed albums with her Melbourne-based band Teeth & Tongue, Cornelius sought out a more personal project. She began performing and recording under her own name, releasing the “Nothing Is Lost” EP (Dot Dash/Remote Control) in 2017. “No Difference” is the first new music Cornelius has released since then. 

Recorded and mixed by Tony Buchen at 64 Sound in Los Angeles in July 2018
Drums - Steven Urgo
Bass -Ryan Weinstein
Guitars and vocals - Jess
Additional guitars, keys, synths, melodica - Tony Buchen

Cover art by Jacob Gardner
Photography by Rachel 'Pony' Cassells

Jess Cornelius

No Difference

From the album 'Distance', out July 24 on Loantaka Records (US) and PTR Records (AU/NZ).

Pre-order the album on Vinyl or Digital Download at:
https://jesscornelius.bandcamp.com/album/distance

Or iTunes: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jess-cornelius/427930831

Kitchen Floor

From the album 'Distance' out July 24, 2020 on Loantaka Records and Part Time Records/ Remote Control.

Here Goes Nothing

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

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