"My sleep schedule flipped and I'd stay up all night working on songs in this very feverish way," he says. Recorded entirely on tape with his bandmates Kellen Boersma (guitar), Mike Starr (bass), and Collin O'Brien (drums), In Plain Sight bears a lush and dreamlike quality, thanks in large part to Francis's restless experimentation with a stash of analog synths lent by his friends in his early days at the church. Along with earning lavish acclaim (including a glowing review from Bob Lefsetz, who declared: "THIS IS THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS!"), Changes led to such triumphs as performing live on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic," sharing the stage with members of The Meters at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and touring with such acts as Lee Fields & The Expressions and Black Pumas. With a prodigy-like gift for piano, Francis sat in with a dozen different blues acts in Chicago clubs as a teenager, and helmed a widely beloved instrumental funk band called The Heard before going solo. "From a very early age, I was playing late into the night in a very stream-of-consciousness kind of way," he says, naming everything from ragtime to gospel soul to The Who among his formative influences. Like its predecessor, the album spotlights Francis's refined yet free-spirited performance on piano, an instrument he took up at the age of four. Mixed by Grammy Award-winner Dave Fridmann (HAIM, Spoon, The Flaming Lips, Tame Impala), In Plain Sight finds Francis again joining forces with Changes producer and analog obsessive Sergio Rios (a guitarist/engineer known for his work with CeeLo Green and Alicia Keys). "I thought I'd only stay a few months but it turned into over a year, and I knew I had to do something to take advantage of this miraculous gift of a situation," he says. Peter's and asked to move into the parsonage. After breaking up with his longtime girlfriend while on tour in fall 2019, he returned to his hometown and found himself with no place to stay, then headed to St. Despite not identifying as religious, Francis took a music-ministry job at the church in 2017 at the suggestion of a friend. The follow-up to Francis's 2019 debut Changes - a New Orleans-R&B-leaning effort that landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of KCRW, KEXP, and The Current, and saw him hailed as "the reincarnation of Allen Toussaint" by BBC Radio 6 - In Plain Sight was written and recorded almost entirely at the church, a now-defunct congregation called St. The result: a portrait of profound upheaval and weary resilience, presented in a kaleidoscopic sound that's endlessly absorbing. True to its charmed complexity, the singer/songwriter/pianist's second full-length came to life over the course of a tumultuous year spent living in a possibly haunted church in Chicago. On his new album In Plain Sight, Neal Francis offers up a body of work both strangely enchanted and painfully self-aware, unfolding in songs sparked from Greek myths and frenzied dreams and late-night drives in the depths of summer delirium.
an undeniable rock star in the making." She will put that to the test this Fall supporting The Record Company on their US tour before returning for her first tour of Canada supporting The Glorious Sons throughout the early months of 2022. Featured prominently on Spotify`s billboards at Times Square in New York and Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto alongside significant global editorial support across the board, her profile continues to grow.BBC Radio 1`s Jack Saunders described JJ as "a voice that commands the stage …. It was the first time in 25 years that a woman took home that award, the last being Alanis Morrisette in 1996 for Jagged Little Pill.In May 2021, JJ dropped her EP project WILDE, which featured #1 rock radio hits "Best Boy" and "Mercy", alongside her new single "Off The Rails" which hit #2 on the Alternative chart in Canada. That momentum helped propel her to a SOCAN Rock Award, 2021 Indie Award and the 2021 JUNO Award for Rock Album of the Year for her debut album, Ruthless. Her debut single "The Rush" saw global radio airplay, hitting #1 on OUI-FM in France, and spending an unprecedented 10 weeks at #1 on Canada`s three rock radio charts surpassing artists like Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters. Music has permeated every part of her life since childhood, and it`s something she`s held closely an unwavering connection she`s fought to foster.The result is a meteoric rise over the past 18 months, putting her squarely on the radar of rock fans around the world, breaking records and helping to break the glass ceiling for women in rock. When asked to choose between music and a relationship, there`s only ever been one answer for JJ Wilde.
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