[15][16] There was additional recording and production on both Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul and Marble Son by Martin Feveyear.

[9] The Seattle Times said "Rolling Stone magazine called Sykes' brooding, emotionally-raw album "quiet marvels of lamentation," and Oh, My Girl made a handful of Top 10 of 2004 lists.

[21] After the release of their third album, Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul, which the Dallas Observer called "her first masterpiece"[21] and CMJ said "a significant step forward for Sykes as a torchbearer of masterful mourning.

[26] The song "Birds Of Passerine" on Marble Son was written by Sykes for Mark Linkous after his death.

[29] In 2009 Sykes and Wandscher wrote and recorded original music for The Seattle Shakespeare Company's performance of "The Tempest".

[30][31] In 2010, Sykes sang at All Tomorrow's Parties in Monticello, New York with the festival's headliner Altar, a collaborative project (as well as album name) between Sunn O))) and Boris.

The show was opened by BXI, the collaborative project with Ian Astbury, front person of The Cult, and Boris, followed by Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter.

[36] Sykes said she drew inspiration for the song from author Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.

[38] In 2011, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter's fourth album, Marble Son, was released, garnering critical praise from The New York Times, Spin, Consequence of Sound, and others.

"[40][41][42][43] In an interview with Mark Lager on Vinyl Writers, Jesse Sykes discussed her upcoming fifth album.