Sarah Jaffe started work on The Body Wins the day she bought a bass and a drum set at a pawnshop. That day. She wrote the rhythmic “A Sucker For Your Marketing,” and her second full-length began to take shape. It had been building up inside her; she just didn’t have an outlet. Jaffe had been writing songs on her acoustic guitar since she was a teenager. She knew everything she could do on it, and everything she couldn’t do. It wasn’t a creative tool for her anymore. Jaffe had pent-up creative energy inside her, after spending most of the year traveling and touring behind her debut (Suburban Nature), seeing and feeling things, soaking up the world. There’s a side to Jaffe that didn’t exist on Suburban Nature, the part of her that liked to dance and listen to hip-hop and cover Robyn songs live. That’s not to say The Body Wins is a party record. It isn’t. But it has a pulse to it, more than a heartbeat, not quite a breakbeat. “Glorified High,” the first single, perfectly captures that, the energy she’d built up and the energy that had always been there, with a chorus that smacks you in the chest and lingers like a hug. The Body Wins may sound different to those introduced to Jaffe through Suburban Nature. It should. But it’s not by any grand design to change. It’s where she’s at now, a product of everywhere she’s been since Suburban Nature—literally and figuratively—and a hint of everywhere she might go from here. RADIO • “Glorified High” receiving early airplay on Sirius XMU • Impacting college radio and non comm on April 9th • Impacting AAA on April 23rd • “Clementine,” from Suburban Nature, reached the top 30 at AAA radio • #1 record at both KGSR Austin and Sirius Spectrum • Clementine has over a 95 percent retention rate at KGSR for PPM research over the past 8 months of airplay. • Jaffe has been featured twice on NPRs Song of the Day and also Highlighted on World Cafe Produced by John Congelton (St Vincent, Walkmen, Clap Your TOUR • March 2012 West Coast support dates with GUTHRIE Hands Say Yeah, Explosions in the Sky). • SXSW Showcase with Youth Lagoon and Tennis TRACKLISTING • Prior national touring with Norah Jones, Old 97s, Midlake (US & Europe), Artist: SARAH JAFFE Centro-Matic, Lou Barlow Title: THE BODY WINS 01. Paul • Performed at SXSW, ACL Festival, CMJ, NX35, Sunset Sessions. CD Selection #: KR65 02. Body Wins LP Selection #: KR65-V 03. Glorified High RETAIL UPC CD: 186535006523 04. Mannequin Woman • This new record will reconnect Sarah with the core indie retail community. UPC LP: 186535006530 05. Halfway Right • We will build on a solid consistent 22 month sales history that was fueled Price Code: CD12 / LP13 06. The Way Sound Leaves by continous press, radio and national touring. Format: CD/30 • LP/20 07. Fangs • Sarah’s fan base has grown steadly and our pre-release focus will be to have 08. Hooray for Love File Under: “J” FOR JAFFE them looking forward to finding her new record at their favorite music outlet! Genre: INDIE 09. Foggy Field 10. Sucker For Your Marketing HIGHLIGHTS 11. Limerence • Clementine music video aired on MTVs NewNowNext and Freshman 5 CD 12. Talk • Jaffe landed on many 2010 Best Of lists including #49 on on Pop Candy’s 13. When You Rest 100 People of 2010, #3 on Paste Magazine’s 10 Best New Solo Artists of 2010, #39 on Paste Magazine’s 50 Best Albums of 2010, #43 on Paste LP Magazine’s 50 Best Songs of 2010 (for “Clementine”), 58 on Amazon. com’s Best Albums of 2010 list, plus another two picks for Amazon’s Best Songs of 2010 (for “Summer Begs” and “Perfect Plan”).