Jem

Before work had even begun, Jem knew what the title of the follow-up to her acclaimed 2004 debut, Finally Woken, would be. "Even around the making of the first album, I wanted to call this one Down To Earth," she recalls. Although the title song incorporates the reflections of an extraterrestrial, those three little words suit Jem and her aesthetic for myriad other reasons.

In the four years since Finally Woken dropped, Jem has spanned the globe. Born in Wales, she now resides in Los Angeles. On the same day that a family friend sends a text about hearing Jem's music in a caf in China, an e-mail arrives from a fan listening to her in Bahrain. Taste-maker Nic Harcourt, Music...

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