JENNIFER CASTLE’S “MARY MIRACLE” VIDEO

UPCOMING CA/US/UK TOUR DATES, SOLO AND WITH DESTROYER

 

 

mary miracle, you cried blood!
down the thighs of the porcelain angels
there by the riverbed thrashing in the mud
swimming upstream against all odds

Surprise! Jennifer Castle has shared a new video for standout, organ-stained Camelot track “Mary Miracle,” with its bloody invocations of faith. Reminiscent of Warhol screen tests or Kubelka’s Ademar, the self-directed, humorous clip finds Castle playing cards, chewing gum, and dancing in and out of garments. In her own words:

A black and white cool clip, to be sure, yet it had me sifting through footage of YouTube Mother Mary devotees (the pulsing sun at the end is an actual apparition caught on camcorder!), 1970 B&W yoga texts with photocopy style index pictures, geometry, repetition and ecstasy, and that whirling Sufi dance called Sema, which symbolizes the ‘journey towards God’, and translated means “listening.”  

Plus, “that red beating thought” – a lyric which smushes the head and heart together into one twirling frame of booty.  

Creating a video in 2025 while praying for the Mother of all miracles : World Peace.  JC XO

Jennifer will be touring through the fall, playing solo, with a band, and supporting Destroyer in Canada, the US, and UK (at End of the Road Festival). Scroll for dates, ticket links, and more.

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Acknowledgments

9/10, Album of the Month. An enthralling and richly detailed career peak … Jennifer Castle’s Camelot, as mapped on her seventh album … is a battleground of opposing tensions, set against the divisive times of the present. There are ambiguities and contradictions, ecstatic visions and crises of faith. And a quest, not for some imagined grail, but for earthly and private resolutions. It’s all fixed to music of the exquisite variety, from radiant acoustic studies to billowing symphonic pop. Camelot feels like a landmark in Castle’s career. It’s certainly her most all-embracing record to date.

– Uncut

Stunning … it feels like Castle is on the cusp of becoming something more than your favorite musician’s favorite musician … She writes the kind of songs that can only come when you give yourself the time and space to breathe: intensely introspective, steeped in her natural habitat, and loaded with the lyrical flights of fancy spawned by a wandering mind beholden to no particular schedule … Camelot is an elaborate act of world-building, a psychic fortress where Castle weaves personal reflection and social commentary through astrology, mythology, and biblical allegory, rendering lived experience as fabulism and vice versa … Even as her sound and reach continues to expand, Jennifer Castle is still moving through the world at her own pace and on her own terms, still approaching each song as an opportunity for a one-on-one conversation.

– Pitchfork

A master of channeling both everyday enigmas and larger existential ones, Jennifer Castle creates songs that shelter. The indie folk singer-songwriter’s new single has the streamlined forward motion of a swan landing on a still lake, a graceful figure splashing down with waves of propulsive guitars.

 – The FADER

Jennifer Castle has been in communion with the cosmos for as long as we’ve been listening, and certainly for at least a little while longer than that. On “Lucky #8,” the lead single from her forthcoming new album, Camelot, she emerges as an ambassador for celestial divinity—leaping in song in celebration of its ability to liberate us of our existential dread, almost parental in its omniscient embrace. Amidst a jangly and triumphant exuberance of rock and roll, she presents an exhilarating introduction to her new album, her most stylistically eclectic to date. … Castle may very well be an archangel, and she is summoning us once again.

– Aquarium Drunkard

Jennifer Castle’s latest may just be the best work of her career. On Camelot, Castle’s writing is sharper, her music warmer, her instincts more fluid and expansive. From the record’s opening line — “I’ve been sleeping in the unfinished basement” — Castle creates a world that’s equal parts fantasy and grounded realism, the known universe as seen through stained glass. Few records released this year feel so lived in, so awake with meaning.

– Exclaim

Elusive but unerringly questing and beautiful, Camelot thinks bigger than any billboard.

– Record Collector

It’s rare that an album of such intellectual depth is this accessible, but Castle imbues her songs with wit, candour and melodic charm. 

– KLOF

Castle is doing her damn thing and she doesn’t seem to care who notices or doesn’t. Her work, including Camelot, feels born more of compulsion than desire. That the truths spoken from decades of knowledge hit exactly right cement them as badges. Earned in daily battle and generously shared. 

– Under the Radar

On the follow-up to 2020’s lowkey but immensely rewarding Monarch Season, Jennifer Castle wanders further sonically than ever before. Camelot choogles like Creedence (“Full Moon In Leo”, “Lucky #8”), sighs like Nirvana covering the Meat Puppets unplugged live in New York (“Trust”) and further mines what can only be called that classic Castlemusic sound (“Earth Song,” “Some Friends”). The lyrics, evocative as ever, find Castle searching and wondering. Is she just pissing in the winding? Who should she trust? What’s that song? What percentage is she spirit? What percentage machine? What rhymes with orange? God is invoked. Camelot asks many questions, but there is a sense that in time, these songs might just have some answers hidden in them as well.

– Dominionated

Dotted with little vignettes—love stories, complex characters, the plight and beauty of the human experience—Camelot is a ravishing foray into the unknown by an artist who actually knows quite a lot about life.

– No Depression

Looking to have an emotional connection with the greater world? Might we encourage you to let Jennifer Castle help you find your way. The opening moment {of “Earthsong”} alone tugs at you, grounds you, connects you and Castle as one. Then, her voice enters, almost frolicking, carefree but still pensive in its presentation. For all intents and purposes, it does feel woodsy or pastoral, taking that Earth connection beyond literal and letting the emotional draw of the strum lock you into the sense of wonderment.

– Austin Town Hall

Balancing between the celestial and the earthly, the songwriter embraces acoustic minimalism and sweeping, psychedelic extremes. As Castle continues to chase revelations, her enrapturing music continues to flow.

– RANGE

Carefully burnished and open-armed, “Blowing Kisses” is… sophisticated, symphonic and soulful.

– The Autumn Roses

 Jennifer Castle finds the earthiness in the word, the sense of something bigger than humanity, like tectonic plates sliding and the sun-rising, as ancient as the tales of King Arthur and every bit as intriguing.

– For the Rabbits

 

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