← more from
Hardly Art

Single Rider

by Jenn Champion

supported by
Jack music Life
Jack music Life thumbnail
Jack music Life What's this pop beating on my rock ? O.M.G. it's coming for you. If only you knew. Favorite track: Coming For You.
billylunn84
billylunn84 thumbnail
billylunn84 This song makes me fall in love every time it's played. Favorite track: O.M.G. (I'm All Over It).
M80 Records
M80 Records thumbnail
M80 Records I really enjoy this album. The vinyl cut was well done and the production sounds great. A lot of 80’s inspired beats and melodies with great emotional vocal delivery. Very memorable songs.
drewdanburry
drewdanburry thumbnail
drewdanburry Love love love Favorite track: O.M.G. (I'm All Over It).
speedsmith47
speedsmith47 thumbnail
tillane
tillane thumbnail
OhPepper
OhPepper thumbnail
Stuart
Stuart thumbnail
dangerventure
dangerventure thumbnail
Rahne Alexander
Rahne Alexander thumbnail
Peter Reitz
Peter Reitz thumbnail
pgr
pgr thumbnail
Oliver Zerkel
Oliver Zerkel thumbnail
Tony Lonetree
Tony Lonetree thumbnail
princeton avenue
princeton avenue thumbnail
philaros
philaros thumbnail
xac karma
xac karma thumbnail
Mato
Mato thumbnail
Gigno
Gigno thumbnail
Jimmy
Jimmy thumbnail
Christin Eubanks
Christin Eubanks thumbnail
ian and jodi
ian and jodi thumbnail
Pangowai
Pangowai thumbnail
Space Cat
Space Cat thumbnail
Robert Kosara
Robert Kosara thumbnail
Aya Tiffany Sato
Aya Tiffany Sato thumbnail
Everton Anjos
Everton Anjos thumbnail
dsnyder0cnn
dsnyder0cnn thumbnail
tbusch81
tbusch81 thumbnail
Dominic Siadak
Dominic Siadak thumbnail
Zak
Zak thumbnail
Sadie Comment
Sadie Comment thumbnail
TriesteM
TriesteM thumbnail
Anthony Omar
Anthony Omar thumbnail
Dani
Dani thumbnail
Jeanne-Marie Joubert
Jeanne-Marie Joubert thumbnail
Adamus Rex
Adamus Rex thumbnail
Pierre
Pierre thumbnail
KPNW-DB
KPNW-DB thumbnail
Boon Sheridan
Boon Sheridan thumbnail
Matthew DeMaio
Matthew DeMaio thumbnail
project_mariola
project_mariola thumbnail
Mish
Mish thumbnail
Jamie
Jamie thumbnail
Brome
Brome thumbnail
kinga
kinga thumbnail
Trash Pandas
Trash Pandas thumbnail
Aaron Graf
Aaron Graf thumbnail
Warsaw Cubicle
Warsaw Cubicle thumbnail
Artur Bąk
Artur Bąk thumbnail
yepitstrent
yepitstrent thumbnail
Eric Huebsch
Eric Huebsch thumbnail
Ak-Ant
Ak-Ant thumbnail
len11
len11 thumbnail
Brendan Thompson
Brendan Thompson thumbnail
samurai-el-jackson
samurai-el-jackson thumbnail
Michael Ridd
Michael Ridd thumbnail
M. Vonel
M. Vonel thumbnail
Abby Holmes
Abby Holmes thumbnail
Rusty Eyeballs
Rusty Eyeballs thumbnail
Arbitrary Moniker
Arbitrary Moniker thumbnail
Fred Seymour
Fred Seymour thumbnail
scott w.
scott w. thumbnail
IX
IX thumbnail
more...
/

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Single Rider on limited edition hot pink vinyl.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Single Rider via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $17 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Single Rider in an attractive dig-pak format

    Includes unlimited streaming of Single Rider via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $13 USD or more 

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Single Rider on Cassette

    Includes unlimited streaming of Single Rider via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    5
    releases

    Get all 5 Jenn Champion releases available on Bandcamp and save 10%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of O.M.G. (I'm All Over It) Piano Version, Turn Up the Radio, Single Rider, Owner of a Lonely Heart, and No One EP. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $18.90 USD or more (10% OFF)

     

1.
O.M.G. (I'm All Over It) 03:43
info
2.
Coming For You 03:32
buy track
3.
You Knew 03:13
buy track
4.
Holding On 04:19
buy track
5.
The Move 03:43
buy track
6.
Never Giving In 03:26
buy track
7.
Mainline 03:23
buy track
8.
Time to Regulate 03:30
buy track
9.
Bleed 02:54
buy track
10.
Hustle 03:30
buy track
11.
Going Nowhere 03:25
buy track

about

Fans of Jenn Champion (formerly “S”) have praised her open-hearted lyrics, expertly-deployed melancholia, technical skill, and willingness to forgo conventions, but mostly they’ve praised her for making albums they could cry to. With the release of Cool Choices in 2014, Champion made what many considered the best record of her career, and a lot of people cried to it.

On Single Rider, Champion brings with her all those skills and vulnerabilities, but it is not a record for wallowing: it is a record for intense eye contact on the dancefloor. “Sometimes you are sad and you just want to dance about it,” said Champion.

Side B of Cool Choices presaged Champion’s agit-pop transformation. “Let the Light In” and "Tell Me" signalled her move toward a more electronic sound, but it was the digital single “No One” (2016) that marked the clear delineation. “I feel like a door got opened in my mind with electronic and digital music. There was a room I hadn’t explored before and I stepped in,” said Champion. While she’d initially intended to follow Cool Choices with “a rock record - guitar, a lot of pedals, heavy riffs,” plans changed. “I couldn’t pull myself away from the synthesizers and I realized the record I really wanted to make was more of a cross between Drake and Billy Joel than Blue Oyster Cult.”

Soon after the release of No One, Champion’s publishers partnered her with Brian Fennell, aka SYML, and the two co-wrote the song “Leave Like That” (featured on SYML’s Hurt For Me EP). The pair hit it off, and with nearly all of Champion’s Single Rider demos completed, the timing was perfect--she was looking for a producer. “I guess you could say I pursued Brian.”

Fortunately, Fennell was open to being pursued and the two spent the next five months working on Single Rider. “In the studio with Brian, I was more open than I had ever been.” With Champion’s vision and Fennell’s expertise, the record evolved from synthy roughs to a hi-fi dance album.

Despite the new direction in her sound, emotion cuts through on Single Rider in the classic Champion style, weaving simultaneously pleading-and-incensed vocals into anthemic pop songs. Champion wants her listeners to see that the rooms are all on fire and she has not given up. Taking a double “fuck you” approach to the world, to the patriarchy, all the things which screw you up and hold you back, she is dancing right on out of the disappointment apocalypse with her middle fingers in the air, and you can follow if you want to.

_arwen nicks_
Nicks is the head of podcasting at KPCC in Los Angeles and the former co-host of the Sub Pop Podcast.

credits

released July 13, 2018

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jenn Champion image

Jenn Champion Seattle, Washington

contact / help

Contact Jenn Champion

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Jenn Champion, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Rising L.A true metal stars Saber join the show, plus the new surprise-released Gatecreeper LP

 listen now