For Transmitter Failure, Jenny calls on her long-time producer friend Dan Romer (Batten the Hatches, Ingrid Michaelson, The Woes) to create a lush aural landscape populated by gut-thumping bass lines, electric guitars, sunny keys, booming horns, digital drum tracks and even flute, glockenspiel and a full string section at times (borrowed straight from the pit of award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening). Deeply enmeshed in a scene of gifted young indie musicians and songwriters, Jenny and Dan looked to fellow Brooklyners Chris Kuffner (Regina Spektor, Ingrid Michaelson, Jim Bianco), Bess Rogers (The Age of Rockets, The Robot Explosion), Meredith Godreau (Gregory and the Hawk), Ben Kalb (New Pornographers, Regina Spektor, Ingrid Michaelson), Saul Simon-MacWilliams (Chris Garneau, The Age of Rockets) and Adam Christgau (Tobias Froberg, The Woes) to collectively contribute bass, guitars, drums, vocals and strings on multiple tracks. "I also wrote with other people for this record," Youngs explains, "Justin Pierre (Motion City Soundtrack) wrote part of the music for 'Secrets.' I worked with Bess Rogers on a couple songs and also called in Osei Essed (The Woes) for a song." Buy on Amazon