Originally from Malaysia and now based in Australia, JessC has spent the past two decades moving between disciplines. She’s a certified therapeutic musician, a doctor of health science, and an artist with a multilingual discography.
JessC approaches music the way she approaches healing: with presence, intention, and a deep understanding of what people carry inside. Six Feet Deep, her new English-language album, comes after years of writing and performing in Mandarin and Malay, and feels like a personal shift as much as a musical one.
The title track sounds like a ritual. It dwells, settles in, and creates an expanse in which sadness can breathe. Other tracks, such as “5AM” and “One Chance,” have different energies, some gentle and minimalist, others vibrating with action. But all circle around the same axis: what it is to let go of what no longer fits, and to step forward on purpose.
“This record isn’t only heartbreak,” says JessC. “Burying a part of me that needed to be buried. The part who kept grasping at things that were lost.”
She’s not trying to be figurative. That same understated precision comes through in her recordings — no posturing, just presence. When singing or when speaking, JessC has a sort of serene calm even when what’s going on runs deep.
Six Feet Deep was created concurrently between Australia and the US, surrounded by a team of producers to help her develop a sound blending rock, pop, and cinematic textures. JessC is, and has always been, a multilingual artist, but never has she expressed that inner world so explicitly in English.
“There’s no perfect way to sing grief,” she says. “But if someone hears one of these songs and feels a little less alone, that’s enough.”
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JessC’s love of healing isn’t skin-deep. It’s a byproduct of years of medical training and a lifetime of studying how sound works on the body. The music she sings has specific frequencies in mind. She speaks of brainwaves, hormonal response, the parasympathetic system, but it never does sound distant or dry. What you feel isn’t complicated. You feel it, and you feel it release you somehow.
Even Six Feet Deep‘s videos have been crafted to capture that movement. Stagecraft is minimal. Dark tones, subtle lighting, measured pauses. JessC isn’t looking to be grandiose.
JessC has made a career out of changing up. Starting from early Mandarin ballads to dramatic stage plays, from rock singles to orchestral projects, she has never kept to just one lane. But Six Feet Deep seems to be the first where she’s stopped long enough for the world to catch up to her where she’s at.
“I am not trying to be all over,” she says. “I just want my songs to be heard by those who require them.” And maybe that’s what it’s all about. Not filling in the silence, but offering something that’s part of it.
Rolling Stone AU/NZ’s editorial team does not endorse JessC’s music.
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