{"id":12511,"date":"2017-04-07T05:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12511"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:35:01","slug":"album-mini-review-valerie-june-the-order-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/album-mini-review-valerie-june-the-order-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Valerie June — The Order of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File next to: Rhiannon Giddens, Ali Farka Tour\u00e9, Shovels & Rope<\/strong><\/p>\n

If with The Order of Time<\/i>, Valerie June Hockett sought to create a resolutely unclassifiable record, she’s succeeded beyond a doubt. For the Memphis-based singer-songwriter’s fourth full-length, she’s come up with a dozen tunes that will delight the adventurous listener, but likely confuse and disappoint anyone who wants a whole album in merely one (or two, or three) musical styles. While her nasal, Southern-accented voice seems right at home on the steeped-in-Americana \u201cLong Lonely Road,\u201d when she shifts gears to \u201cLove You Once Made,\u201d June is every bit as effective as she evokes memories of Aretha Franklin<\/strong>‘s Muscle Shoals, Alabama recordings. \u201cShake Down\u201d filters field hollers through modern pop. A vaguely malevolent string arrangement and distorted electric guitar characterizes \u201cIf And.\u201d \u201cAstral Plane\u201d is straightforward singer-songwriter pop. The stylistic shifts never let up, yet The Order of Time<\/i> somehow ends up a cohesive musical statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File next to: Rhiannon Giddens, Ali Farka Tour\u00e9, Shovels & Rope If with The Order of Time, Valerie June Hockett sought to create a resolutely unclassifiable record, she’s succeeded beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,65],"tags":[3020],"class_list":["post-12511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-new-release","category-review","tag-valerie-june","cat-6-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12539,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions\/12539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}