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Ana Roxanne: Poem 1 review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month
(Kranky) Essaying a broken heart, the New Yorker puts her voice front and centre for her most accessible work yet, though still with unexpected details – and a Schumann cover The new album from Ana Roxanne was written after a transformative experience of heartbreak. And just as you might wake up one day after a breakup and find yourself feeling OK, there’s a new clarity here. Where the New York-based musician’s vocals were once stretched out and suspended among hazy ambient textures, on Poem 1 they are front and centre. For the first time, we hear Roxanne’s lovely, wispy voice in lucid detail, as she contemplates loss and desire over slow and stripped-back compositions. The record opens with a collection of mournful ballads which draw more on pop songwriting than Roxanne’s usual amorphous style. Her yearning is tangible in the simple yet evocative lyrics, but also beyond: the tense vibr
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(Kranky) Essaying a broken heart, the New Yorker puts her voice front and centre for her most accessible work yet, though still with unexpected details – and a Schumann cover The new album from Ana Roxanne was written after a transformative experience of heartbreak. And just as you might wake up one day after a breakup and find yourself feeling OK, there’s a new clarity here. Where the New York-based musician’s vocals were once stretched out and suspended among hazy ambient textures, on Poem 1 they are front and centre. For the first time, we hear Roxanne’s lovely, wispy voice in lucid detail, as she contemplates loss and desire over slow and stripped-back compositions. The record opens with a collection of mournful ballads which draw more on pop songwriting than Roxanne’s usual amorphous style. Her yearning is tangible in the simple yet evocative lyrics, but also beyond: the tense vibr
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