Jen Olive I Say Love EP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jen Olive Releases I Say Love EP

“Overwhelmingly the work of one musical maverick”

- The Word

On April 1 , Jen Olive’s follow-up to her Ape House debut album Warm Robot (featuring Andy Partridge of XTC) drops out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, by way of Swindon, UK. Titled I Say Love, it’s a six-song EP showcasing, as Warm Robot did, Jen’s singular reinvention of the modern pop song. As Mark Fisher described Jen’s take on songwriting in The List, “So catchy...you’ll forget most music ain’t made this way.”

Featuring songs from Warm Robot, b-sides, remixes and the title-track single – as well as contributions by Andy Partridge and producer Stu Rowe – I Say Love bridges the gap between Warm Robot and Jen’s next full-length album (due later in 2011). If you haven’t heard Jen Olive yet, I Say Love is a good introduction.

Jen’s idiosyncratic approach to songwriting begins with the guitar. Her playing has been dubbed “high life guitar from Venus” thanks to her odd time signatures, intricate fingerpicking and quirky jazz/folk sensibilities – “This astounding allegro algorithm from Albuquerque,” as Andy Partridge puts it. This, coupled with equally strong vocal melodies and layered harmonies, allows for the creation of a musical world that is uniquely Jen Olive’s.

Jen splits her time between the U.S. and the UK, and is set to tour the UK in the summer of 2011.

Track Listing

1 I Say Love

2 Robot Boy

3 Oh, My Fairy Flesh

4 So Funny

5 When I Met Superman- (Lighterthief remix)

6 Robot Boy- (Lighterthief remix)

For any more information contact:

stu@lighterthiefmusic.com

zoe@lighterthiefmusic.com

00 44 7881 940695