September 9, 2014   Jillian Banks has survived a torrent of pre-debut album publicity with hardly a scratch. Since 2013, the 26-year-old self-taught musician and producer has riled the music community with her expressive confessional lyrics and emotionally electrifying production while keeping herself an arm’s length away from self-promotion. In that time, she’s paired with the beat-making community’s biggest rising names, releasing smoke-filled single after single and un-ostentatiously forging a reputation as the female version of The Weeknd. Her new album Goddess brims over with emotional urgency, dropping slicing truths about her relationships with irrefutable deftness and swagger. Make no mistake, this is an album that anyone needs to give a listen to. 

September 9, 2014   Jillian Banks has survived a torrent of pre-debut album publicity with hardly a scratch.

August 28, 2014   Frequent Jessie Ware collaborator and 4AD signee SOHN has released a new single titled “The Chase.”

August 5, 2014   While much of the world focuses its attention on Banks’ debut album next month, one of the rising R&B starlet’s biggest collaborators celebrates his own success quietly today.

November 11, 2013   It’s all been heard before: broken hearts make great musicians.

November 29, 2013   BANKS gets angsty in this heated The Weeknd cover.

April 29, 2014   If you’ve ever heard one of Jillian Banks’ songs and failed to understand or appreciate the sense of wounded transcendence in her music, then her new song is coming for you - yes, you. Aided by producer Lil Silva, Banks’ latest is a churning flame of reproach towards all the haters she left behind when she found her calling in music. Listen below. 

January 8, 2014   Good news for you: it’s early 2014 and there have already been instances of hearing new music we haven’t been able to shake.

January 29, 2014   No one can stop her, so Banks continues staging heated confrontations with the world.