Radio National Breakfast
(Australia)

July 30, 2007

Album of the Week

Tim Ritchie joined Breakfast with the Album of the Week.

Listen Now: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2007/1991475.htm

Acoustic Magazine
(UK)

June/July 2007

City Garden Review

By: Brett Callwood

“Now on her sixth album, Jess Klein is a name that was unfamiliar to this reviewer prior to playing City Garden, but is one that I’ll be looking out for from now on. Blessed with a beautiful, soulful voice and an album packed with awesome songs, Klein is an incredible talent, and one that is certainly worth checking out when she tours the UK throughout the coming months."

MOJO Magazine
(UK)

July, 2007

*****

"The edge of steel to Klein's clear voice is very much in evidence on her sixth album, from impassioned opening track Blood, Sweat, Tears, through the powerful City Garden and retro-pop Make Love, to closing song World Could End which features just raw vocal and acoustic guitar. Not her most country album, but arguably her most moving and intense."

Roots Music UK
(UK)

City Garden Review

Jess Klein's sixth album City Garden has the best roots sound of any album I've heard this year. Klein said she wanted to get something primal, akin to the recordings of last centuries bluesmen Leadbelly and Robert Johnson. Well she's certainly achieved this right from the opening track "blood, sweat, tears"' driven guitar and gospel chorus. This album is risky, up on a high wire. Listen to the raw intimacy of "all i ever had", it's right there in the hours after a break up when emotions are most taut. Klein captures this moment so perfectly you feel a slight embarrassment witnessing such a public display of private grief. Then there's sassy tracks like the sensual "make love" or the punky "world could end" This is an essential roots album.

Chart Attack

December 5, 2006

City Garden Review

By Shannon Whibbs

Tiny Jess Klein has given her huge voice even more room to roam on her sixth release, City Garden. While sticking to her folk-rock style, Klein has incorporated a significant bluesy element into this collection. This trend emerges on the stripped-down "Shell & Shore" and the acoustic "All I Ever Had," a brokenhearted lament that Klein infuses with the kind of raw emotion that makes you squirm in your seat, as if intruding upon a private moment. Klein rocks out on the title track and "Middle Road," while "Swimming Pool" contains an incredibly interesting romantic metaphor. The passing years have been kind to Klein's voice. It still has a hint of the little-girl-lost, but there's a remarkable depth and resonance that's developing with age and experience.