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Stranger

by Joanne Pollock

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Jordan Berry I adore this album. I always come back to it, beautifully sparse yet devastatingly sharp. Still waiting for a follow up album!!! Favorite track: Scratching.
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DogenzakaGoddess Extremely interesting and fluid sound design mixed with angelic vocals
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Favorite track: You Know I Would Do Anything.
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Trixie Delight A unique blend of synths and intricate singing, a world of its own both recorded and live. current fav track "you know I would do anything"
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Flex Blur La voix de Joanne et les traitements appliqués se marient si bien avec l'accompagnement de nappes et de batteries synthétiques. A écouter ! Favorite track: Melt Myself.
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scuudexclamationpoint I love this 5/4 feel! Great instrumentations, A lot of sensibility in the lyrics and the performance. Fantastic Album! Favorite track: Expect Me.
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Carnival 04:41
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Melt Myself 02:55
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Expect Me 03:51
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Stranger 03:43
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Myself Apart 03:27
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Scratching 03:38
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Jealous Mind 03:19
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You're Gone 03:54

about

‘Stranger’ is the debut solo album from Canadian artist Joanne Pollock. Released via Venetian Snares’ Timesig imprint, with whom Pollock previously collaborated as Poemss, ‘Stranger’ is a stunning collection of electronic pop songs that range from the unsettlingly calm and beautiful through to ferocious explosions of caustic noise, all held together by Joanne’s multi-octave ranging vocals.

“What happens when we push up against that which contains us?” asks Pollock. “By distorting the mirror, we may become plastic. When the comfort of familiarity is stripped away, it can feel as though we become a stranger in our own bodies. Is it through embracing the Stranger that we discover ourselves? Stranger explores the multiplicities of selfhood - what defines us, where the boundaries lie.”

On tracks like the album opener ‘Carnival’, ‘Myself Apart’ and ‘Expect Me’ Pollock’s vocals weave in and out of the bruised and bruising bass lines, glacial synths and stop-start beats almost becoming one with the music, before suddenly overpowering the synthetic elements to take centre stage in bursts of joyful exuberance.

Combining an intricate, detailed approach to music production with illusive almost dreamlike textures ‘Stranger’ sees Pollock further burnish her reputation as one of electronic music’s most exciting and idiosyncratic new artists. Throughout the album’s ten tracks she continually leads us down dark, surprising paths as she experiments with and twists song structures, resulting in an album that feels both eerily familiar and startlingly new and continues to reveal new secrets with every play.

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released June 16, 2017

All music written, produced, and performed by Joanne Pollock
Additional vocals on You Know I Would Do Anything by Sarah Jo Kirsch
Additional vocals on Never Been You by Tesia Rhind
Guitar on Expect Me by Paige Drobot

Album cover by Tyler Funk

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