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UncutAug 27, 2019The results are exquisite. [Sep 2019, p.34]
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Sep 10, 2019Joan Shelley’s greatest gift is her approach to making music—to create a welcoming refuge from the world’s noise. A balm for our troubled times. A haven for those who need it, if only for an album’s length every couple of years. You’ll want to stay longer.
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Sep 4, 2019Mostly, Like the River Loves the Sea succeeds in elevating Shelley’s ruminations on “the ground I am bound to” and “the tender things around me” to matters of universal resonance.
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Dec 20, 2019These are timeless songs of renewal, not sadness, underpinned with quiet, steely resolution and the knowledge that emotions and loves arrive like those four seasons, to be savoured while they last.
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Oct 17, 2019You can hear how she gradually tempers her busy thoughts, setting her mind at ease with a sense of renewal. And in her clean, unembellished melodies, reminding us that we can take our true selves whichever way we choose to roam.
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Sep 3, 2019Like a more pastoral variation on Joni Mitchell's Blue, the reduced volume on Like The River Loves The Sea gives the music strength, not fragility, and this is Joan Shelley's best work to date. Turns out that trip to Reykjavik was a wise investment.
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MojoAug 27, 2019This album engages out minds while it explores, but as it raises questions, it still comforts. [Sep 2019, p.92]
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Q MagazineAug 27, 2019Beautiful and inscrutable, it runs very deep indeed. [Sep 2019, p.117]
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Aug 27, 2019On Like the River Loves the Sea, Joan Shelley proves she may be the only active musician who can surround herself with collaborators and sound exactly like herself.
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Aug 30, 2019Right now, it can feel like every artistic statement is part of a grand commentary on our collective entropy. Joan Shelley plays on all of our nostalgia for calmer days. Her latest album is great shelter from the gathering storm.
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Jan 15, 2020Ultimately, although ‘Like The River That Loves The Sea’ flows slowly towards its ultimate destination, it makes the journey worthwhile. The grace and beauty Shelley shows throughout gives reason for a celestial celebration.
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Sep 3, 2019Her latest, Like the River Loves the Sea, feels simultaneously grounded and even more expansive as it tracks its way through the changing seasons of a relationship.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 2 out of 10
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Sep 5, 2019
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Sep 3, 2019This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Sep 1, 2019eu poderia ouvi-lo numa varanda de frente para um campo lindo, grande e cheio de vida, mesmo apresentando faixas repetitivas.