Clear Hearts Grey Flowers

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Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers is the second full-length album by the band Jack Off Jill. Produced by Chris Vrenna of Nine Inch Nails/Tweaker, it was released in July 2000 on the now-defunct label Risk Records and is generally considered to be Jack Off Jill's best album.

The blonde girl in the album's cover art (by Mark Ryden) was speculated to be either:

• a representation of guitarist Helen Storer of the UK all-girl band Fluffy, who joined Jack Off Jill onstage once for their farewell performance at The Troubadour in Los Angeles in April of 2000; or
• Michelle Inhell, the band's original guitarist, who temporarily rejoined Jack Off Jill and cowrote four songs on this album.

Singer Jessicka later revealed in a 2003 interview that she had sketched the concept for Mark Ryden and that the third girl was actually supposed to be a combination of both Inhell and Storer, who were both blonde at the time of the recording.

After Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers the band formally split up, and moved on to establish other projects.

Track listing

1. "When I am Queen"¹ — 2:54

2. "Fear of Dying"¹ — 2:44

3. "Nazi Halo" — 2:41

4. "Rabbiteen" — 3:17

5. "Strawberry Gashes"² — 3:43

6. "Author Unknown" — 2:35

7. "Vivica" — 5:07

8. "Witch Hunt" — 2:22

9. "Cinnamon Spider"⁴ — 2:49

10. "Underjoyed" — 2:53

11. "Surgery" — 4:33

12. "Star No Star"³ — 4:21

13. "Losing His Touch"² — 2:57

14. "Clear Hearts Grey Flowers" — 3:15

66. "Lovesong" (The Cure cover) — 3:34

Note: Tracks 15-65 are blank tracks, 0:06 long respectively.

All songs by Jessicka/Moulder except as noted:
¹Jessicka/Moulder/Walsh
²Jessicka/Moulder/Oliver/Walsh
³Jessicka/Moulder/SMP
⁴Jessicka

Credits

• Jessicka – vocals
• Agent Moulder – bass, piano
• Clint Walsh – guitar
• Norm Block – drums
• Chris Vrenna – producer, 'moral support'
• Mark Ryden – cover artwork