JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN

'HOLY CITY'

The new single on Play It Again Sam available digitally now

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From the album,  'THE CLASSIC' out March 10th

(Play It Again Sam CD/LP/Digital PIAS685) Itunes link here: http://smarturl.it/theclassicitunes
 


Holy City is the new album’s prime Motown/Hi label-influenced pop fusion, a brilliantly instinctive lead single inspired by a visit to Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall and understanding people find ecstasy in different ways, from praying to making music. The track’s atmospheric closing scat-rap is from Reggie Watts: “he’s an incredibly inspired musician as well as being a comedic genius,” ventures Joan, “he challenges you to think much deeper, but in a way that’s subtle plus he’s so comfortable, natural and sensual in his body... I contacted him through mutual friends, and a week later, he was recording on my record with the freedom to do what he wanted. It felt very magical.”

Holy City is available digitally now but is also released on 7" vinyl as a AA-side single with the album's title track, The Classic on 17th February.

The Classic, the fourth album of originals by the uniquely charismatic artist known as Joan As Police Woman, builds on the creative impetus and success of its 2011 predecessor The Deep Field. As ever Joan strives to create music rooted in an intimate, elemental and uplifting brand of soul combined with her own unique serene, torch-singing temperament, but whereas melancholy was a principle feature of Joan’s earlier work, this time there’s a more liberated feel than ever before.
Famously a key member of Antony Hegarty’s Johnsons and Rufus Wainwright’s band until she began making her own records, Joan was inspired by their combined piano balladry while infusing it with her own stripped-down-soul and torch-song approach. Her 2006 album debut Real Life was followed by To Survive (2008), written in the aftermath of her mother’s death; in 2009, she released an interim covers album simply called Cover, before The Deep Field confirmed Joan had started a full recovery and was determined to beat the blues. Which takes us to The Classic, where Joan reaches even further toward the light.


A UK tour has been confirmed for April/May, plus two low-key shows in March.  The Lexington show, announced to fans via Joan's Facebook page, sold out in a matter of minutes. Tickets for all the other shows on sale now:

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN - UK Tour Dates

March 2014

13th LONDON The Lexington - SOLD OUT

15th NORWICH Arts Centre

April 2014

15th LONDON Village Underground

17th BRIGHTON Komedia

19th LEEDS The Belgrave

20th HEBDEN BRIDGE The Trades Club

21st MANCHESTER Gorilla

23rd NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms

24th BRISTOL Thekla

25th EXETER Phoenix

27th GATESHEAD Sage 2

28th GLASGOW Oran Mor

May

1st   BELFAST The Limelight

'THE CLASSIC' Album Artwork:

The Guardian -‘a voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane’

Uncut – ‘This is breathtakingly good music'

Mojo – ‘full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn’

Sunday Times - Pop CD of the Week - 'Sensational.'