Dessa – Call Off Your Ghosts [Audio]
Off Dessa’s forthcoming album “Parts of Speech”, available on Doomtree Records 6/25/13. Purchase “Call Off Your Ghosts” now on iTunes.
From its first track, Dessa’s new full-length ‘Parts of Speech’ (6.25.13, Doomtree Records) announces itself as something different. The Doomtree veteran and inveterate wordsmith — having proved her mettle in the fields of creative non-fiction, spoken-word and hip-hop — jettisons all genre expectations on “The Man I Knew” and croons a heartbreaking lament to a disintegrating relationship at an explosively-building clip. From this moment on Dessa — oft-described as “Mos Def plus Dorothy Parker” for the wit and flow shown off on previous solo albums ‘A Badly Broken Code’ and ‘Castor, The Twin’ — proves she has truly coalesced as an artist, transcending the restrictions of genre to reveal an astonishing multi-platform voice.
