Gothic Theatre
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
Embraced – and sometimes frustratingly genre-labeled – by fans of so-called ‘alt-country’ music (encouraged in such labeling perhaps, by Sykes’ longtime collaboration with guitarist/songwriter Phil Wandscher, co-founder of seminal post-punk Americana band Whiskeytown) and increasingly by more experimental-indie listeners of Low, Bright Eyes, Palace, or Smog, Sykes’ work has been characterized by a compelling mixture of longing, dark depression, and hope:
“Spellbound music, rapt in fatalism and sorrow”
- The New York Times (2004 “The Ones That Got Away” year end feature.)
“A beautiful, heart-breaking album. Country gothic at its bleakest and most starkly poignant.”
- Paste (FOUR STARS)
Discography
 Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (2007) |
 Oh, My Girl (2004) |
 Reckless Burning (2003) |
