Listening to Joanne Roberston\u2019s debut album is something I\u2019ve been doing in bits and pieces for quite a while. Songs have come, songs have gone, and while I miss some of the tunes that have disappeared into the aether, the remaining selections are uniformly stellar.
\nIt\u2019s hard to describe exactly how Joanne\u2019s songs function. In certain ways they bear a similarity to folk music. Empiricially, they fulfill most of that genre\u2019s requirements, but they actually hew to none of its conventions. The lyrics, the structures, the rhythms all breathe with a unique quality that feels born of a free improvisational impulse rarely associated with folk music. The surface of this music is so casual it almost defies you to get close enough to really see it, really try to comprehend it. But the closer you listen, the weirder and deeper everything becomes. (Byron Coley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":177,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[27],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-859","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cd","8":"first","9":"outofstock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"yoast_head":"\n