Joan Of All
OCEAN OMEN
9/10
NEAR the end of the first track on Sarabeth Tucek’s new album, the songwriter poses a question. she asks, after “Joan Says/Amber Shade” has blossomed from ghostly folk to Paisley Underground glimmer, For a while, it seemed that Tucek had done exactly that. After her 2007 self-titled debut and 2011’s , both duly acclaimed, there were 12 years of silence. Yet now comes , her third album and first under the new moniker SBT. Written in LA, , , any Yo La Tengo record and, of course, the ‘White Album’, all of which weave a spell far greater than the sum of their parts.
