Just Listen
Joan Wasser’s latest album reminds me of her first Real Life, with opener Wonderful back to the focus on her
vocal, delicately sultry in its inherent clarity and strength [so I mean not
thrust forward] and accompanied by sweetly supporting harmony, so this reminds
me of The Ride off that first release. All she has done in between is excellent, but there have been shifts
and dancings with more emphasis on production and a broadening out from just
her singing, so I like this ‘return’ to what I like particularly. Second track Warning Bell is another in this full
circle, so to speak. Beautiful again. Third Tell
Me ups the tempo just a little, pop-taunts in the echoing what what what do you mean line, but
those overdubbed harmonies are a joy again. Fourth Steed moves into an R&B with sax tangent, but this is fine too
because it is good. Fifth Damned Devotion
focuses back on the solo vocal and attendant harmonies. Lovely album. Just
listen to Valid Jagger.
More Some Awe reviews of Joan as Police Woman here.
More Some Awe reviews of Joan as Police Woman here.
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