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Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles review – a soul-recharging exercise in radical positivity
The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s joyful new album pushes back against the bleakness of doomscrolling
While current global events would seem more likely to inspire dark or depressed music, the Tennessee-based, Grammy-nominated, Bob Dylan-favoured Americana singer-songwriter Valerie June is pushing back against bleakness and pessimism. She describes her sixth album as “a radical statement to break scepticism, surveillance and doomscrolling” with the aim that the listener will “celebrate your aliveness. With June’s inimitable vocals at their most pure, freeform and childlike, the songs draw on folk, blues, gospel, gentle psychedelia and soul.
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