Album of the Week: Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles

Valerie’s 2022 album The Moon and Stars was an absolute delight so when this album flew past on our social media feed it caused great excitement. She pushes her beautiful sophisticated voice in new directions on this album, offering up a palette of Americana albeit with contemporary production cues (the producer is one of our favourites M Ward). What’s really delightful is that she avoids the cliché of despair at the world and offers “a radical statement to break scepticism, surveillance and doomscrolling” (from The Guardian).

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Album of the Week: Valerie June – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers

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This exquisite album from March 2021 sees the Memphis singer-songwriter in fine form. An album of love and loss, her “organic moonshine roots music” as she calls it is both simple and meaningful, accomplished and slightly experimenting in this her fifth full length album.