Jen Olive is the latest in that select group of handpicked artists signed to Andy Partridge’s Ape House record label. Jen Olive, described by Andy as ‘’this astounding allegro algorithm from Albuquerque", has conjured up an album that’s as singular in style as in its manner of recording, a collaboration between Jen and Andy from across the world. The result, Jen Olive’s debut album, Warm Robot, is scheduled for release on March 29th.

Born in California but “raised everywhere", Jen Olive’s mother was a lounge jazz singer, her father a trombone player. “We probably moved about 35 times before I was 16", she explains. Having eventually settled in L.A., she then moved to Albuquerque a few years ago to meet her dad’s "crazy jazz" family (her uncle is the lead saxophone player for the Count Basie Orchestra).

Jen Olive is a songwriter first - a singer-songwriter in the loose tradition of those classic, only recently rediscovered seventies artists such as Ruth Friedman and Judee Sill, except she's very much in the here and now. Like Kristin Hersh or Bjork, Jen Olive's vision is modern and unique. There’s just no right way to describe Warm Robot - it‘s essentially acoustic-based, then subtly embellished. All you have to do is listen; the songs are delightful, distinguished and highly personal and, with a little help from Andy Partridge, she has just followed the music where it has taken her.