Jessica Lea Mayfield

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Jessica Lea Mayfield

Jessica Lea Mayfield

Though her sweet voice and tuneful ear are the first qualities most listeners will notice about Ohio songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield, what lingers is her biting wit and fearless honesty. On her latest album Sorry Is Gone she balances her dry humor with some of her most personal, pained songs yet—she wrote it after the dissolution of her abusive marriage. Recorded with Dinosaur Jr. producer John Agnello and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, it’s her heaviest record yet, both sonically and emotionally. “Soaked Through,” in particular, is one of the rawest accounts of abuse in recent memory. “My heart wants all the bad things I used to let it have,” she sings sorrowfully.