Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, now widely available. Horn says the LP, "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in passing, a feeling of being in-between things. I was really mobile at that time, living wherever... I had just discovered, late, Raymond Carver, Broadcast, Sybil Baier, Annette Peacock, Richard & Linda Thompson, a short story called “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson. I had “Heart Needs a Home” in mind, “The Great Valerio;” I was just really moving through the world, hanging in the shadows of the people I wanted to be. Hoping, looking out, this is Optimism. I was looking for anything."

Tracklist:

Friends Again
Time Machine
Optimism
Changing Lives
Man Meandering
Tonight
A Good Thing
Jordan
Driving
When I Go Down Into the Night

UPC: 843563147528
Label: No Quarter
Release Date: 1.21.22
Format: Vinyl

Jana Horn - Optimism (LP)