American singer / songwriter Valerie June stands out for being a bit strange. With her long and thick updo she looks like the African Medusa. That mythic is reflected in her music, which sounds unearthly and ghostly on The Order Of Time. Also strange is her way of singing, like a girl with the rasp of an old blues singer. In addition, she likes to add to her Memphis descent with a fat Tennessee
… bite. This dark Southern belle made her breakthrough in 2013 with the album , produced by . She also found her style on this, which she only explores further on this successor. Gospel, blues and bluegrass are ingredients for her personal songs, which also always convey a bit of voodoo and Southern goth. It makes The Order Of Time a brooding whole, like music that was made a long time ago and whose reverberation still echoes over the bayou. Nice and strange. (MR)more
