Joan Shelley follows her acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth, her seventh full-length release. Recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley and features contributions from the Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman, Doug Paisley, Nathan Salsburg, Matt Kelley, Ken Whiteley, drummer Philippe Melanson, and saxophonist Karen Ng.
“Every emotion in one small hour,” sings Joan Shelley, observing her young daughter Talya on ‘Field Guide to Wild Life’. “A raging ocean, a meteor shower.” The folk-adjacent auteur’s ninth studio LP is alive, Natalie Merchant-style, to the marvels of creation, but also the vulnerability that comes with suddenly having a physical stake in the future of humanity.

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