Folk Bands and Artists
Sarah Jaffe
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For 28-year-old singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe, 2014’s Don’t Disconnect is both a mission statement and a call to arms — an album about getting to know yourself in a hyperconnected world that makes it nearly impossible to do just that. The highly anticipated follow-up to The Body Wins continues to showcase Jaffe’s range; released August 19th, 2014 on Kirtland, it was produced by Midlake’s McKenzie Smith, whose “amazing partnership,” Jaffe enthuses, was “like two friends in the studio” — a warmness that bleeds through to the record, despite the technological connotations of its title. If The Body Wins emphasized the triumph of the corporeal — in metaphors and direct references to “the body” — then Don’t Disconnect is about the humanity and vulnerability that lies within. Ultimately, the desire to stay connected in the right way — with yourself, and with the people who matter — is what drives the album.
