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The criminally overlooked British songwriter is back with a new album and a new single, Already There
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On Sunday, Pitchfork writer Jenn Pelly wrote a beautiful archival review of British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading s 1976 self-titled album. It s less of a review, actually, and more of a career-spanning feature on an artist who has done her own thing from the get-go, and has never quite got the accolades she deserved. She had started writing songs on a pawn shop acoustic guitar and the neglected household piano in her mid-teens, Pelly writes. Her inquisitive vision of folk-rock was tinged with the music she grew up around jazz and soul, gospel and rock’n’roll, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding especially in the depth of her smoky alto, which voiced the highest heavenly feeling of love as well as its lowest void. Like her idol, Van Morrison still one of the few influences she’ll point to her songs have
Joan Armatrading will release a new album,
Consequences, on June 18, via BMG. The singer-songwriter has shared a single from the record, “Already There,” which you can hear below. Physical copies of the album are due out a little later, on August 13.
Armatrading’s last album,
Not Too Far Away, released in 2018. Read Jenn Pelly’s new Sunday Review of her 1976 self-titled album, and scroll down to watch Devendra Banhart discuss Armatrading’s song “Willow” for Pitchfork’s “Song I Wish I Wrote” series.
Consequences: