I initially sidled up to Joanne Robertson and her work with Dean Blunt on Backstage Raver.
Sidled because I frankly wasn’t sure and I tend to be cautious that way when it comes to music I choose to spend time with. It is a commitment, after all. But over time I went back into her catalog where I found comfort so when word of her new album arrived in my inbox, I saved Blurrr to my Roon library as soon as it showed up on Qobuz with mostly “unavailable” tracks.
And here we are. Blurrr was released on AD 93 on September 19, 2025 and it’s now official—I’m in love. Ears over heels.
Blurrr can be heard as sloppy by today’s meta-polished standards where there are more people in the credits polishing the music than people making it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but I enjoy hearing what sounds like a person, Joanne Robertson accompanied by cellist Oliver Coates make music that largely feels unprocessed with simple ingredients where in this case add up to natural beauty, another thing in shorter and shorter supply these days through a similar surgically enhanced homogenization. Do we all have look the same in order to be considered attractive?
Burrr is mesmerizing in all its fragile unvarnished beauty.