Jun - The Heart & Home the Body & Throne

From feeling unconditional love without the need to put a wedding ring on it ("We can just enjoy the joy we bring, and I'll be in your life for life"), to treating each other like allies instead of opponents and what it means to be a good human beings ("We are all tired and we cannot do this alone"), Jun tackles various sociopolitical topics with her usual clever aplomb in third full-length effort The Heart and Home, The Body and Throne. Album Review by Creative Loafing The local anti-folk multi-instrumentalist composer, producer and vocalist - who imbues hints of hip hop, experimental electro, jazz, world music and rock into her sound - adds to her own sonic arsenal with additional players who broaden her overall musical palette without overburdening it, and carefully selects a few or a handful of components to build each track: strummed and plucked acoustic guitar with urgently bowed violins in "Higher Ground" or joined by mournful clarinet in "Lately"; hand-clapping, muted-thumping bass drum and plucked kalimba notes paired with deep organ tones in "Goodness in Us"; harpsichord and accordion melodies, the odd banjo strums, multi-tracked vocals, percussive rattles and electro-chugging machine drum beats in "Stones and Bullets." All are marked by Jun's resonant jazz-rich vocals and unique vibrato-bent phrasing, the star of another warmly inviting stripped-down effort.

1) My Heart My Home
2) Higher Ground
3) Goodness in Us
4) Love Will Come
5) Knock Kneed Bull
6) Chicken
7) Stones and Bullets
8) Q;A
9) Dusty
10) An Ear That I Could Sing to
11) Grateful
12) Heart Was Sold
13) Wedding Ring
14) Unseen Hurricane
15) Lately
16) Brewing
17) Brewing (Live)