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Simon Joyner has been on a roll for nine albums, and it’s time someone noticed. The Nebraskan singer-guitarist’s ambitious songs are sepia-toned portrayals of lives well spent or profligately wasted in pursuit of — or retreat from — redemptive love. Ironically, the biggest difference between this record and its predecessors is its sonic clarity. Producer Michael Krassner has swapped the singer’s usual dust-blown audio verite approach in favor of a spacious recording that gives guitarist Eric Heywood and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm plenty of room to swoop and sigh. Joyner rises to the occasion with his most expressive and world-weary singing to date.
