Jess Ribeiro spent her childhood in the ambience of regional NSW Chinese restaurants, where her father worked as a chef, before decamping to Darwin in 2007 to pursue study and music. There she founded Jess Ribeiro And The Bone Collectors, and released her debut EP Pilgrimage in late 2008. This was followed by 2012's My Little River, her first and only full-length album with The Bone Collectors, a gentle collection of “unhurried, beautifully melancholy folk”. From that debut full length came ‘Truckyard’, whose clip was filmed in a 1970s-style Chinese restaurant in Melbourne's inner suburbs.
Ribeiro released her first post-Bone Collectors album in 2015, titled , which demonstrated a darker and more ornately orchestrated approach to country adjacent songwriting. Another stark departure followed with 2019's , which gazed in the direction of indie rock and saturated trip-hop, while retaining the noir abrasures of her previous record.
