Joan Shelley’s ‘Like the River Loves the Sea’ is an intimate study in beauty and sorrow. Read our review
has trafficked in the strain of intimate, earthy folk and country that calls to mind everyone from Nick Drake to Iron & Wine to Gillian Welch. Her latest,, feels simultaneously grounded and even more expansive as it tracks its way through the changing seasons of a relationship.
“A haven woven with warm colors, a woolen place to rest your head,” Shelley sings on the meditative opening track “Haven,” its run time stopping short of two minutes as a lone acoustic guitar holds steady on one chord. Recorded in Iceland with James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg, the album is dotted with these kinds of seemingly cozy, impressionistic remembrances. In “The Sway,” Shelley sings of “arms entwined” and “hands let play” as lovers spend a night exploring one another’s bodies.
Shelley sums the process up on the gorgeous “Cycle,” which drifts along weightlessly on an undulating set of chords set against harmonium and minimal percussion. “We were always good friends, but we left it all on the floor/These strange cycle romances, hide in the dormant soil.” OnIn This Article:
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