‘Stranger’ is the debut solo album from Canadian artist Joanne Pollock. Released via Venetian Snares’ Timesig imprint, with whom Pollock previously collaborated as Poemss, ‘Stranger’ is a stunning collection of electronic pop songs that range from the unsettlingly calm and beautiful through to ferocious explosions of caustic noise, all held together by Joanne’s multi-octave ranging vocals. 

“What happens when we push up against that which contains us?” asks Pollock. “By distorting the mirror, we may become plastic. When the comfort of familiarity is stripped away, it can feel as though we become a stranger in our own bodies. Is it through embracing the Stranger that we discover ourselves? Stranger explores the multiplicities of selfhood - what defines us, where the boundaries lie.”

On tracks like the album opener ‘Carnival’, ‘Myself Apart’ and ‘Expect Me’ Pollock’s vocals weave in and out of the bruised and bruising bass lines, glacial synths and stop-start beats almost becoming one with the music, before suddenly overpowering the synthetic elements to take centre stage in bursts of joyful exuberance.

Combining an intricate, detailed approach to music production with illusive almost dreamlike textures ‘Stranger’ sees Pollock further burnish her reputation as one of electronic music’s most exciting and idiosyncratic new artists. Throughout the album’s ten tracks she continually leads us down dark, surprising paths as she experiments with and twists song structures, resulting in an album that feels both eerily familiar and startlingly new and continues to reveal new secrets with every play.

Stranger

Joanne Pollock - Expect Me (TIMESIG007 - 16th June)

Solstice

Buy Album Here:
magicsquarerecords.bandcamp.com/album/yes…y-network

All music written, recorded, mixed & mastered by Elijah Franks.

"Reading Color" by PBS'73 is licensed under a © ℗ ® Creative Commons License.

Reading Color

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You know we did and when we did we found the edge and stuck to it like glue
I'd look at you and you at me we'd face the same bright destiny it's true
not all around you'd find a sound, the time to get this butchers work is due
We take their dreams and endless screams and silence pours from every seam 


Hey wag, there is nothing more important to me, so much is down I've stopped being able to see
we were all born into darkness night hunters every one of us 
Shaded by sequoia nothing can possibly ever get to us

talking around, walking around, missing each other in the powder and the deadly dusk or this husk,
you know the one, the one that you've become, bullet in the black light so fast that you'll succumb you must, Succumb you will to the feeling of this chill, the one that is running like a hare down your spine  The spine you claim you have that's a strong as mine: visualise things with your eyes and notice that maybe you've got a demon inside

You know we are, and here we are, the night is wrapping round us like a cloak
I feel for you, and you for me, we know our quarry is so very close 
We know their breath, thier sleeping breath, we both of us know just what the fuck to do
we fill a void, so utterly devoid without encouragement from the ethereal crew:

Bullet in the blacknight
Bullet in the searchlight

We're in the blacklight you and me
Nothing can touch is, this is the way it was alway meant to be
You and I, or us and them, nothing really matters in the end

Bullet In The Blacklight Slightly Extended Edition

Smoke trails like whispers from your mouth
darkness within will win the struggle to make its way out
twilight and dusk the thoughts that drift across your mind
your shadows eating at your feet you'll feel your loosing it right

it never stops there, so release me
you'll never take it there, so release me
look me in the eye, hit me where I feel it
Shut me down, try all you might
Be prepared, I won't go out without a fight

The moon fell into the earth today
A blaze of fire in an autumnal sky, I see you
I wake in heat and fear and haze from this dream
my skin still trembles from your searing gaze you've got me

Let me out

Let Me Out

I find myself drawn to, this place I once knew
I've stood right here a hundred times
but never seen it through
I can clearly hear the crashing waves of the tide
pulling the threads of my soul and tearing me apart inside

I am so very drawn like I hear the sirens nearby
but I stand here staring out to sea I can't find any sign
There is nothing humbles like this place where your power resides
Cold, its so cold but face I it this time I am coming home to you


Juxtaposition not, I'm really torn apart by being 
all together not okay with how your being
your cold hand in my chest it grips my heart still beating
but not for long, my whole world seems to still be reeling

I reach for anything I can do to stop this fear of falling
into the depths where I belong but don't deserve this I'm feeling
just please please pull me out now

Solstice

Antony Pinch