Joan ShelleyBest Joan Shelley Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
15
Opinions
7
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 15 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Joan Shelley's catalog across 7 albums from 15 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated Joan Shelley album is Like the River Loves the Sea (2019) with a 8.3/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Joan Shelley and Over and Even. The discography on Wavelength spans 2014 to 2025.
Joan Shelley
“It’s difficult to innovate within a genre as well-worn as acoustic singer-songwriter folk, and at no point does Joan Shelley try to do so here. Despite that, though, a handful of moments across its eleven tracks, via a melody, arrangement or simple musical approach, contrive to provide something never heard before. Accordingly, quite how Shelley discovered the gorgeous chorus for ‘Where I’ll Find”
Like the River Loves the Sea
“The Kentucky folk-singer’s new album feels brighter and more confident than her previous work”
Like the River Loves the Sea
“The Kentucky folksinger’s fifth solo album strips down to acoustic instrumentation and her softly luminous voice, carving out a refuge where love and nature find solace in each other.”
Over and Even
“Over the course of her six full-length albums, Kentucky singer-songwriter Joan Shelley has trafficked in the strain of intimate, earthy folk and country that calls to mind everyone from Nick Drake to Iron & Wine to Gillian Welch. Her latest, Like the River Loves the Sea, feels simultaneously grounded and even more expansive as it tracks its way through the changing seasons of a relationship. “A ha”
Electric Ursa
“On the stellar and small Electric Ursa, her third album but first to be widely distributed, the Kentucky singer Joan Shelley lets prepositions hang with no object, tucks nouns into vivid verb-less clusters, and prefers pronouns that linger with little clear meaning.”
The Spur
“Accompanied by a wide range of verdant textures, the Kentucky songwriter deepens the emotional landscape of her earthy, reflective folk music.”
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