Out Into the Snow
Album | Simon Joyner
Joyner unfolds one striking movie-for-the-ears after another
Simon Joyner started out in the early ‘90s, when being the Leonard Cohen or Townes Van Zandt of indie-folk was no cooler than being from Omaha, Nebraska. Flash forward some 15 years: both of the aforementioned scenarios have long been deemed uber-hip, and Joyner's disciple Conor Oberst has released the former's twelfth studio album on his own Team Love label. Hopefully this will translate into the kind of widespread acclaim for which Joyner is long overdue, because Out Into the Snow is one of his loveliest, richest, most fully realized outings to date. Not one to mess around, Joyner opens the album with the Dylan-meets-Rimbaud "The Drunken Boat," an epic, nine-and-a-half-minute song-poem overflowing with vivid imagery. From there on, there's no let-up, as Joyner unfolds one striking movie-for-the-ears after another, shot through with artful chamber-folk arrangements that bring an effective modernist touch to songs whose spiritual roots lie in the work of the great troubadours of the late '60s and early '70s.
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