Name: Pocket Moon
Brand: Simon Joyner

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BBI0372

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-10-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4260064999726

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Simon Joyner

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

BB Island

Simon Joyner is a singer/songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He began writing and performing his songs in 1990, releasing a few cassette recordings of his first songs to a growing local audience before his first vinyl-only LP "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll" brought him international attention in 1994.
Over the last decade, Simon has released several LPs and singles as well as many compilation appearances on both U.S. and European labels. His talent was recognized by *John Peel*, who gave him his first radio play outside the U.S.
If you enjoy artists such as David Dondero, Neva Dinova, or Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, then you'll appreciate Simon Joyner's music. With influences ranging from Smog to Bonnie Prince Billy, Simon's unique sound will captivate fans of indie folk and alternative rock alike.

Singer-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.

For 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 Step Into The Earthquake, Pocket Moon is instantly one of Joyner's finest albums since his redoubtable 2012 double album masterpiece, Ghosts. 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.

Pocket Moon

Music GB