{"product_id":"pocket-moon","title":"Pocket Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eSinger-songwriter\" is a frustratingly confining term; to truly understand exactly just how confining, look no further than the recorded works of Simon Joyner, an artist whose work consistently transcends the narrow parameters of genre classifications and record shop bin cards. Though his music has always honoured, reckoned with-wrestled with-the tradition set forth by his songwriting forebears (Cohen, Van Zandt, Ochs, Dylan, Reed to name a few), Joyner can always be counted on to defy expectations; as a lyricist, melodicist, and arranger, Joyner likes to keep us on our toes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor his new album Pocket Moon, Joyner opted to engage in a risky artistic challenge. Instead of leaning on his fertile pool of Omaha musicians (the amorphous Ghosts band), he asked friend and frequent collaborator Michael Krassner to assemble unknown players on his behalf specifically for this recording. Simultaneously sparser and more immediate than 2017's obliquely topical \u003ci\u003eStep Into The Earthquake, Pocket Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is instantly one of Joyner's finest albums since his redoubtable 2012 double album masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eGhosts\u003c\/i\u003e. Utilizing a wide range of instruments and textures, the band contributes additional nuance to each of the ragged, sublime songs here. Throughout, Krassner emerges as the Lee Underwood to Joyner's Tim Buckley: a sympathetic foil and musical empath. The result is another song cycle stylistically unified, dynamic and rich. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BB Island","offers":[{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50868091191627,"sku":"1076178","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50868091060555,"sku":"1076176","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/470820fc-d5d3-43f6-a757-c935dee90473_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732123268","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/pocket-moon","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}