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Cassandra Jenkins makes music with an impressionistic intimacy, making astute observations that dovetail neatly with her blend of folk and lush ambient pop. Combining songwriting with field recordings, spoken word, and immersive production, her work traces the emotional landscape as much as the physical—exploring themes of connection, loss, and change. At the center of it all is Jenkins’ curiosity toward the quarks and quasars that make up her universe, as she blends sound design with poetic lyricism.

A native New Yorker, Jenkins came up through the East Coast folk scene playing in her family’s band before launching a solo career in the mid-2010s. She also became active as a collaborator, playing in the touring bands of Eleanor Friedberger, Craig Finn, and Purple Mountains. On solo releases like 2017’s Play ’til You Win and 2021’s Overview on Phenomenal Nature, her music took on an experimental bent, folding in elements of dream pop and dusky indie rock. The latter album was something of a breakout for Jenkins, and for many, the entry point to Jenkins’ distinctive, anthropologically curious viewpoint and detailed, impressionistic songwriting that have come to define her sound. Written during a time in which Jenkins was grieving the loss of her bandmate, David Berman, the critical recognition disarmed the working artist, who was nearing total defeat in her journey.

She’s since followed up with My Light, My Destroyer (2024, out via Dead Oceans) from an even more assertive place, in her most ambitious work to date—from both a production standpoint and in its embrace of discomfort. In contrasting themes of light and destruction, hope and disillusionment, certainty and groundlessness, Jenkins explores her insatiable interest in the fine lines that divide the dualities present in the human experience, as well as the cosmos. She points to a psychological liminality and the in-betweens that we often overlook. Through it all, Jenkins offers a rare kind of songwriting—one that listens as much as it speaks, meeting the listener with curiosity, vulnerability, and a sense of wonder.