Johanna Warren – Lessons for Mutants (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Johanna Warren – Lessons for Mutants (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:57 minutes | 364 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wax Nine Records

Lessons for Mutants is the prolific songwriter’s sixth solo LP and her second for Wax Nine/Carpark Records. The album’s running theme of metamorphosis (the title of the closing track, “Involvulus,” is Latin for “caterpillar”) reflects major changes in Warren’s personal life: after a decade of relentless touring, as the world was closing its borders, the American multi-instrumentalist unexpectedly found herself quarantining in rural Wales, where she’s now permanently homesteading.

Though tracking for the new album began in New York in 2018 in tandem with the sessions for 2020’s Chaotic Good, the majority of Lessons for Mutants was recorded in the UK surrounded by sheep, cows and a forager’s paradise of wild edible plants—a far cry from the urban jungle of LA that Warren had most recently called home. The body of work that emerged from this dramatic about-face is Warren’s most dynamic to date, shapeshifting seamlessly from searing punk screams to sparkly psych-folk soundscapes, from the bootleg ambivalence of Dylan’s Basement Tapes to cosmic stoner grooves reminiscent of Black Sabbath’s acoustic moments.

Tracklist:

1-01. Johanna Warren – I’d Be Orange (03:15)
1-02. Johanna Warren – Piscean Lover (02:54)
1-03. Johanna Warren – Oaths (03:14)
1-04. Johanna Warren – County Fair (04:35)
1-05. Johanna Warren – Tooth for a Tooth (03:09)
1-06. Johanna Warren – :/ (01:47)
1-07. Johanna Warren – Lessons for Mutants (04:46)
1-08. Johanna Warren – Hi Res (02:51)
1-09. Johanna Warren – Good Is Gone (02:27)
1-10. Johanna Warren – Involvulus (01:54)

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