Rise Up

“Australia’s Jessica O’Donoghue creates pop music like you have never heard it before. Mixing electronic pop with opera, medieval music and jazz her music is an eclectic and invigorating listening experience. Its eight tracks remain true to her creative ethos and are darkly atmospheric and moving that challenge and confound you in the best possible way as O’Donoghue pushes the envelope on what pop music can be.”

— Women In Pop

“Rise Up is an ambitious and deeply rewarding listen. Each track is part of the jigsaw of what is an emotive and grand music odyssey....Rise Up is a journey of epic proportions both musically and in the subject matter it explores. It’s art and dramatic pop at its very best featuring Jessica’s thrilling vocals that soar over a bed of intricate vocal harmonies, rich string textures, tribal drums, cinematic synths and warm brassy tones with French horns and tubas.”

— Bruce Baker, The AU Review

“What starts like a Floydian synth drone in ‘Awakening’ quickly turns into one of the most enrapturing vocal albums of the year, with Jessica’s otherworldly voice both merging with the layered synth and string backdrops as well as shining on top of it elsewhere. Let yourself be carried away with these spellbinding sounds. Absolutely breathtaking.”

— Dario, ProgSpace

“Combining industrial electronics, rich vocal harmonies, warm synths and operatic influences, Rise Up is without a doubt O’Donoghue’s most ambitious release to date. O’Donoghue continues to haunt audiences and critics alike – putting her as a pioneer of her own brand of post-baroque dramatic pop.”

— Jacopo Vigezzi, ProgRock Journal