Description
Label Review.
2020 album also available on CD.
Our Overview.
Blending her own recipe of classic soul and experimental influences the wildly acclaimed Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Joan As Police Woman returns with her new album ‘Cover Two’. This is Joan’s second album reinterpreting songs by The Strokes, Prince, Talk Talk, and more and once again, the choices are unpredictable and intriguing.
Joan says, “I began working on new covers ever since the release of the first covers album 11 years ago! I’ve been performing “Kiss” by Prince and my version of “Out of Time” by Blur throughout last year’s Joanthology Tour and finished the record as soon as I returned home this winter. Recreating existing songs is a gratifying creative challenge for me, especially with songs I adore. I start with the question ‘WHY, exactly, do I love this song’? I take those elements and reform them, sometimes removing much of the remaining material to refocus them through new glasses. I re-harmonize the chords, radically change the feel or shift the hook or the phrasing to rebuild the composition.”
On making the album Joan worked with a variety of friends and influences on the album including Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Hicks, Thomas Bartlett (Doveman, The Gloaming), Shahzad Ismaily (Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Tom Waits), Jim White and more.
Joan said in a statement, “I just want to be making music all the time.” This has led to a large and diverse list of co-collaborators: Tony Allen, Damon Albarn, Lou Reed, Beck, Afel Bocoum, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, David Sylvian, Benjamin Lazar Davis, Sparklehorse, Laurie Anderson, Sufjan Stevens, John Cale, Aldous Harding, Woodkid, Justin Vivian Bond, RZA, Norah Jones, Lau, Doveman, Rufus Wainwright and Daniel Johnston.
“A voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” - The Guardian
“Beautiful” - Q
“Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st Century’s best musicians” - The Economist
Gatefold CD with fold out booklet. Red vinyl with digital download card.
Tracklisting: Kiss (Prince) / Spread (Outkast) / Under Control (The / Strokes) / Not The Way (Cass McCombs) / I Keep Forgettin’ (Michael Macdonald) / Life’s What You Make It (Talk Talk) / Out of Time (Blur) / On The Beach (Neil Young) / There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs) / Running (Gil Scott-Heron)