Joan As Police Woman
{{Short description|American musician (born 1970)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Joan As Police Woman
| background = solo_singer
| image = joan wasser ss2006 2.jpg
| caption = Joan Wasser performing at the Summer Sundae festival, 2006
| birth_name = Joan Wasser
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|07|26|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Biddeford, Maine, U.S.
| origin = Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.
| genre = {{hlist|Rock|pop|jazz}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|songwriter}}
| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|violin|guitar|piano}}
| years_active = 1991–present
| label = {{hlist|PIAS|Reveal|Sweet Police}}
| past_member_of = {{hlist|The Dambuilders|Anohni and the Johnsons|Those Bastard Souls|Black Beetle}}
| website = {{URL|joanaspolicewoman.com}}
}}
Joan Wasser (born July 26, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer who releases music as Joan As Police Woman. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders and played with Black Beetle, Anohni and the Johnsons, and Those Bastard Souls. Since 2004 she has released her solo material as Joan As Police Woman. She has released five regular studio albums, one extended play (EP), a number of singles and two albums of cover songs.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/joan-as-police-woman-mn0000713445/discography|title=Joan as Police Woman {{!}} Album Discography|website=AllMusic|access-date=2016-12-03}} Throughout her career, she has regularly collaborated with other artists as a writer, performer and arranger.[http://www.discogs.com/artist/268660-Joan-Wasser?type=Credits "Discogs credits"] List of writing, arranging and performance credits spanning the period 1991-2016. accessed December 4, 2016.
Early life
Born at the Saint Andre Home in Biddeford, Maine,{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/article/joan-wasser-survives-as-joan-as-police-woman|title=Joan Wasser survives as Joan As Police Woman|last=Righi|first=Len|date=September 11, 2008|website=PopMatters.com|access-date=2014-03-10}}{{Cite web|url=http://saintandrehome.org/history/|title=History|date=2013-05-30|website=saintandrehome.org|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328111928/http://saintandrehome.org/history/|archive-date=March 28, 2016|df=mdy-all}} to an unmarried teenage mother, Wasser was placed for adoption at infancy.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3654258/Joan-As-Police-Woman.html "Joan as Police Woman..."] Bernadette McNulty, The Daily Telegraph, August 5, 2006 She was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, with her adoptive younger brother Dan, who is a visual artist.[http://www.an-mag.com/daniel-amazu-wassers-new-series-planet-rock "Art nouveau mag"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429171111/http://www.an-mag.com/daniel-amazu-wassers-new-series-planet-rock |date=April 29, 2018 }} Announcement of an exhibition in Harlem (NYC), October 7, 2010. She credits her background as an adopted child with her "very extroverted" personality and dressing up a lot. She explained that "when you are in a situation where you're not blood-related to your family, it does become extremely obvious that you're born with your personality".Guy Blackman, [http://www.theage.com.au/news/gig-previews--reviews/joan-as-policewoman/2006/09/18/1158431622380.html "Joan as Policewoman]", The Age, September 18, 2006
Wasser began with piano lessons at age six and had her first violin lessons at age eight. She played violin in school and community orchestras before leaving Norwalk for her college studies. At the age of 18, Wasser began her music career during her studies at the College of Fine Arts, Boston University. She studied music under, among others, Yuri Mazurkevich and played with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/1524872/joan-as-police-woman/biography|title=Joan as Police Woman - Biography|last=Phares|first=Heather|website=Billboard.com|access-date=2016-06-30}} Wasser soon grew disillusioned and found that she "didn't want to make classical music my life, the Beethoven symphonies have already been played a million times and I am not going to do it any better". Instead, she joined a number of local punk bands trying "to bridge the gap between the guitar and the bass and play the violin really loud".
Career
= The Dambuilders =
{{Main|The Dambuilders}}
In 1991, Wasser joined the Dambuilders who were signed to Elektra Records in 1994. Wasser featured on three albums as a violinist.{{Cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/15638-joan-wasser-as-police-woman-interview|title=I've Lived Many Lives: Joan Wasser Interviewed|last=Lyndal Martin|first=Erin|date=July 2, 2014|website=The Quietus|access-date=2016-06-30}} The band played a number of shows on the East Coast,[http://www.songkick.com/artists/148522-dambuilders/gigography "1990-1996 shows"] Songkick listing of The Dambuilders shows and found an admirer in Colin Greenwood of Radiohead.[http://citizeninsane.eu/s1995-10AlternativePress.htm "Radiohead 1995 tour"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212431/http://citizeninsane.eu/s1995-10AlternativePress.htm |date=March 12, 2014 }} Randee Dawn, "Modulation Across the Nation" Alternative Press, October 1995 (Issue 87), accessed March 12, 2014. On stage, Wasser managed to stand out with "bright costumes and dyed, often dreadlocked hair". In 1995, the band appeared at Lollapalooza followed by the release of the album Ruby Red.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgsEAAAAMBAJ|title=Dambuilders Cover States, One by One|last=Wolff|first=Carlo|date=July 1995|publisher=Billboard Magazine|page=19}} Wasser augmented her role within the band, adding guitar and keyboard parts, singing vocals, as well as co-writing several songs as found on the album Against the Stars.Allmusic.com entry for The Dambuilders album [http://www.allmusic.com/album/against-the-stars-mw00000025330 Against the Stars.]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Accessed, March 12, 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Dambuilders-Against-The-Stars/release/6472123|title=The Dambuilders - Against The Stars|website=Discogs|date=November 10, 1997 |access-date=2016-06-30}}
Wasser first began to make a name for herself in the indie rock world during her time in The Dambuilders as she developed her aggressive style of playing, which led to work outside the group. Wasser moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1996,{{Cite web|url=http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2007/05/03/joan-as-police-woman-get-real/|title=Joan As Police Woman: Get Real|last=Asher|first=Tizzy|date=May 3, 2007|website=www.magnetmagazine.com|publisher=Magnet Magazine Inc.|access-date=2016-07-01}} while The Dambuilders disbanded in October 1997.
= Black Beetle =
In May 1997, her boyfriend of three years,{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/pop-arresting-development-wgmlpzvtzjm|title=Pop: Arresting development|date=July 30, 2006|work=The Sunday Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200226184217/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pop-arresting-development-wgmlpzvtzjm|archive-date=February 26, 2020|access-date=October 30, 2021|url-access=subscription}} musician Jeff Buckley, drowned accidentally in Memphis.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/15/popandrock.culture1|title=Blasé is not the vibe!|last=Rogers|first=Jude|date=2008-07-14|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-12-03}} She found it "such a traumatic experience of loss. I needed to grieve but I didn't know how". She continued to play with Those Bastard Souls, a band started in 1995 by a close friend of the couple, Dave Shouse of Grifters. They made a record entitled Debt & Departure attempting to respond to Buckley's death.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/those-bastard-souls-mn0000489439/biography|title=Those Bastard Souls {{!}} Biography & History|last=Phares|first=Heather|website=AllMusic|access-date=2016-12-04}} In late 1997, she created a band with the remaining members of Buckley's band called Black Beetle and finished an eponymous album that was never released.{{Cite news|url=http://bbook.com/music/joan-wasser-on-her-new-album-jeff-buckley-feminism/|title=Joan Wasser on Her New Album, Jeff Buckley, & Feminism - BlackBook|last=Shepatin|first=Matthew|date=February 17, 2011|newspaper=BlackBook|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-03}} This was the first project where she was writing as well as fronting a band. She commented, "I found singing terrifying at first, I didn't know about the boundaries of my voice and I had no idea what words I wanted to say. The violin had been my voice for so long."
= Antony and the Johnsons =
{{Main|Antony and the Johnsons}}
In 1999, Joan joined Antony and the Johnsons, initially as a violinist, but eventually as a full-time member. She contributed to their Mercury Prize-winning album, I Am a Bird Now. She explained that she "was called up to stand in for another violinist but by the end of the rehearsal (she) was in the band". The experience was "like a renaissance", and she "was surrounded by gentle people and quiet music [...] I had a space to let go".
= Joan As Police Woman =
While working with others, Wasser began to develop her own material, which she described as sounding "like old Al Green records". She focused on guitar and singing as "for a long time, I was really content with playing violin [...] and then all of a sudden it wasn't enough". The end of Black Beetle in June 2002 brought the beginning of Wasser's work as a solo artist and the creation of a new band, Joan as Police Woman. The name was a reference to the TV series Police Woman featuring Angie Dickinson. Wasser found the actress inspirational as "she was really powerful but sexy at the same time" in the role. She also preferred "the name to be funny because, although my music is serious, I like to laugh at tragedy". She formed a new trio in New York City together with Ben Perowsky on drums and Rainy Orteca on bass. Perowsky also co-produced the EP that also featured contributions by Oren Bloedow, Dave Derby and Erik Sanko. She co-wrote the song "My Gurl" with Michael Tighe.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joan-As-Police-Woman-My-Gurl/release/731139|title=Joan As Police Woman - My Gurl|website=Discogs|date=January 23, 2006 |access-date=2016-07-01}} The group self-released a five-track eponymous EP in 2004,{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joan-As-Police-Woman-Joan-As-Police-Woman/release/441525|title=Joan As Police Woman - Joan As Police Woman|website=Discogs|access-date=2016-07-01}} as Wasser had "decided to do it without a record deal because I wanted to make music on my own terms". In February 2004, Rufus Wainwright asked her to join his band on tour providing backing vocals and strings. In the second half of the year, she joined Joseph Arthur on tour as a violinist.{{Cite news|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2004/09/joseph-arthur.html|title=Joseph Arthur - The Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Ga. 9/23/04|last=Morford|first=Judah|date=September 23, 2004|newspaper=Pastemagazine.com|access-date=2016-12-04}}
== ''Real Life'' ==
In December 2005, Wasser signed a distribution deal with Reveal Records,{{Cite web|url=http://www.theredalert.com/features/joanaspolicewoman.php|title=Joan As Police Woman: A conversation with Joan Wasser|last=McKibbin|first=Adam|date=December 2008|website=theredalert.com|access-date=2016-07-01}} a British indie label, which subsequently re-released the self-titled debut EP, while adding one track.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joan-As-Police-Woman-Joan-As-Police-Woman/release/849419|title=Joan As Police Woman - Joan As Police Woman (EP)|website=Discogs|access-date=2016-07-01}}{{Cite web|url=http://revealrecords.bigcartel.com/product/joan-as-police-woman-first-cdep|title=Joan As Police Woman (First EP)|website=revealrecords|access-date=2016-07-01}} Joan as Police Woman's full-length debut, Real Life, appeared in the UK on June 12, 2006, and through PIAS in Europe and elsewhere.{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10563-real-life/|title=Joan as Police Woman: Real Life Album Review {{!}} Pitchfork|website=pitchfork.com|access-date=2016-12-04}} She embarked on a tour around Europe where she played a mixture of headlining shows and support slots, including the Guillemots.{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/joan-as-police-woman-spitz-london|title=Joan As Police Woman @ Spitz, London {{!}} Live Reviews {{!}} musicOMH|website=www.musicomh.com|date=August 10, 2006 |access-date=2016-12-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://mikeatkinson.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/guillemots-joan-as-policewoman-nottingham-rescue-rooms-sunday-june-4/|title=Guillemots / Joan As Policewoman – Nottingham Rescue Rooms, Sunday June 4|date=2006-06-04|website=Mike Atkinson|access-date=2016-12-06}}
The album was eventually released in the USA on June 12, 2007, on Cheap Lullaby Records based in Los Angeles. In early 2008, Real Life won in The 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Pop/Rock Album.[https://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima/about-us/ "About IMA section"] Listed as one of the past winners. The album included three singles, "Christobel",{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joan-As-Police-Woman-Christobel/master/194028|title=Joan As Police Woman - Christobel|website=Discogs|access-date=2016-12-04}} "The Ride",{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joan-As-Police-Woman-The-Ride/release/952357|title=Joan As Police Woman - The Ride|website=Discogs|access-date=2016-12-04}} and "Eternal Flame",{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Joan-As-Police-Woman-Eternal-Flame/release/852307|title=Joan As Police Woman - Eternal Flame|website=Discogs|date=July 31, 2006 |access-date=2016-12-04}} which was supported by a video directed by Leah Meyerhoff.{{Cite web|url=http://www.leahmeyerhoff.com/films/eternal.html|title=Eternal Flame|last=Meyerhoff|first=Leah|website=Leahmeyerhoff.com|access-date=2016-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217134726/http://www.leahmeyerhoff.com/films/eternal.html|archive-date=February 17, 2017|url-status=dead}}
== ''To Survive'' ==
Her second album, To Survive, was released in June 2008 and featured Rufus Wainwright on the song "To America". The title referred to the loss of her mother to cancer, where she felt encouraged "to talk about it, [to] put it into words and get it out there”. It was recorded with Rainy Orteca and Parker Kindred, an old friend and drummer of her previous band Black Beetle. The album reached No. 43 in Uncut's review of the year 2008, as well as in Q Magazine's top 50. Musically it was described as having "dance-floor soul and indie-rock influences".
With Rainy Orteca departing to pursue her own projects, Wasser and Kindred were joined by Timo Ellis on bass guitar for touring in 2008.
At the end of her 2009 European tour, Wasser returned to New York to play a show and release a new album of cover songs, entitled Cover.
== ''The Deep Field'' ==
In 2011, she released her third album, The Deep Field.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/albums/joan-as-police-woman-the-deep-field|title=Joan As Police Woman – The Deep Field {{!}} The Skinny|last=Neeson|first=Paul|date=January 5, 2011|website=theskinny.co.uk|access-date=2016-07-01}} It contained the singles "The Magic", "Nervous" and "Chemmie".{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/jul/20/joan-as-policewoman-chemmie|title=New music: Joan As Police Woman – Chemmie|last=Cragg|first=Michael|date=2011-07-20|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-12-06}}
== ''The Classic'' ==
On March 10, 2014, Wasser released her fourth album, The Classic, featuring the single "Holy City",{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicglue.com/joan-as-police-woman/about/|title=Joan As Police Woman|website=Musicglue.com|access-date=2016-12-04}} featuring a video filmed by Alex de Campi.{{Citation|title=Joan as Police Woman premieres video for Holy City online - exclusive|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/musicvideo/10620294/Joan-as-Police-Woman-premieres-video-for-Holy-City-online-exclusive.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206185701/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/musicvideo/10620294/Joan-as-Police-Woman-premieres-video-for-Holy-City-online-exclusive.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-02-06|access-date=2016-12-06}}
== ''Let It Be You'' ==
In 2016, Wasser collaborated with Benjamin Lazar Davis and released the album Let It Be You in October.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/20/joan-as-policewoman-benjamin-lazar-davis-let-it-be-you-review|title=Joan As Policewoman & Benjamin Lazar Davis: Let It Be You review – alt-pop experiment goes off script|last=Davies|first=Hannah J.|date=2016-10-20|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-11-22}} It was preceded by the single "Broke Me in Two".{{Cite news|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/videos/premiere-joan-as-police-woman-x-benjamin-lazar-davis-broke-me-in-two|title=Premiere: Joan As Police Woman x Benjamin Lazar Davis - 'Broke Me in Two'|last=Murray|first=Robin|date=4 July 2016|newspaper=Clash Magazine|access-date=2016-11-22}} The album received mixed reviews,{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/joan-as-police-woman-benjamin-lazar-davis-let-it-be-you|title=Joan As Police Woman & Benjamin Lazar Davis – Let It Be You {{!}} Album Reviews|last=Bemrose|first=Bekki|date=October 22, 2016|website=Musicomh.com|access-date=2016-11-22}} with DIY noting it as a "curiously unbalanced album",{{Cite web|url=http://diymag.com/2016/10/20/joan-as-police-woman-benjamin-lazar-davis-let-it-be-you-album-review|title=Joan As Police Woman & Benjamin Lazar Davis - Let It Be You|last=Johnson|first=Eugenie|date=21 October 2016|publisher=DIY Magazine|access-date=2016-11-22}} while AllMusic described it as "a collection of appealingly loose, lush songs full of creativity".{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/let-it-be-you-mw0002958543|title=Let It Be You - Joan as Police Woman,Benjamin Lazar Davis {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|last=Phares|first=Heather|website=AllMusic|access-date=2016-11-22}} The duo followed the release by a UK tour.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2016/11/22/joan-as-police-woman-at-heaven-live-review/|title=Joan as Police Woman at Heaven {{!}} Live review|last=Boyl|first=Stuart|website=The Upcoming|date=November 22, 2016 |access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.fluxmagazine.com/joan-as-police-woman-2016-uk-tour/|title=Joan as Policewoman: UK Tour through November|date=October 31, 2016|newspaper=Flux Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-22}}
== ''Damned Devotion'' ==
The album Damned Devotion was released on February 9, 2018. Emily Mackay, writing for The Guardian, describes Wasser's return to her "characteristically languorous, smoky zone".{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/04/joan-as-police-woman-damned-devotion-review|title=Joan As Police Woman: Damned Devotion review – edgily lascivious|first=Emily|last=Mackay|date=February 4, 2018|access-date=May 30, 2019|website=Theguardian.com}}
Before the album release Wasser released the single Tell Me, with its plea for openness and intimacy. "I am always wanting more intimate dialogue", says Joan Wasser. "Fear of being vulnerable, future tripping and feelings of shame, paranoia and jealousy get in the way. You got to separate now what’s real, what’s not real – stop using jealousy (not real) as a way to avoid having to clarify and tell me what you really want (real). Why don’t we try trusting each other enough to be fully transparent? What is there to lose?"{{cite web|url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15816525.joan-as-police-woman-to-release-new-album-and-play-yorkshire-gig/|title=Joan As Police Woman to release new album and play Yorkshire gig|website=York Press|date=January 9, 2018 |access-date=May 30, 2019}}
== ''Joanthology'' ==
The album Joanthology was released on May 24, 2019.
== ''The Solution Is Restless'' ==
In 2019 Wasser participated in an Africa Express concert{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/30/africa-express-the-circus-review-albarns-multi-artist-brexit-show-has-start-stop-feel | title=Africa Express: The Circus review – Albarn's multi-artist Brexit show has stop-start feel | website=TheGuardian.com | date=March 30, 2019 }} of March 29{{cite web | url=http://vblurpage.com/gigography/damon/africa/19_0329_circus_setlist.htm | title=Africa Express: The Circus, London, 2019 - Setlist }} organized by Damon Albarn, where she met fellow performer Tony Allen. Later that year the pair collaborated, with Dave Okumu of The Invisible, on her ninth solo album, The Solution Is Restless. It was released in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://joanaspolicewoman.bandcamp.com/album/the-solution-is-restless-album-2021 | title=The Solution is Restless (Album, 2021), by Joan as Police Woman Tony Allen Dave Okumu }}
Collaborations
Wasser has done considerable session work providing strings and vocals for a number of artists throughout her career. Her resume includes live performances and studio work with Elton John, Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, John Cale, Sheryl Crow, Scissor Sisters, Sparklehorse, Dave Gahan, Tanya Donelly, Joseph Arthur, and Fan Modine.
She has worked with Nathan Larson on his side-project, Mind Science of the Mind{{cite web|author=Aaron Schatz |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mind-science-of-the-mind-mn0000492647 |title=Mind Science of the Mind | Biography |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2014-03-10}} and ex-Fishbone member Chris Dowd's Seedy Arkhestra album. In the liner notes to an album by the latter, Dowd praised her as a "soulful mothafucka".{{cite web |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/discography/app-coll.html |title=Kingdom For A Kiss - The Jeff Buckley Discography: Appearances & Collaborations |website=Jeffbuckley.com |access-date=2014-03-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201134137/http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/discography/app-coll.html |archive-date=December 1, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}
In 2006, Wasser contributed backing vocals and violin to the track "Redwings" on Guillemots' debut album Through the Windowpane. She provided vocals and plays the violin on the song "Ballad of a Deadman" alongside David Sylvian on Steve Jansen's album Slope which was released in 2007. Wasser was credited for playing piano, violin, and guitar as well as contributing vocals on Lloyd Cole's 2010 release, Broken Record.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
In 2013, she started the band 2001{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/2001band|title=2001|publisher=Twitter|access-date=May 30, 2019}} with Benjamin Lazar Davis, which released its first single "Broke Me in Two" in September 2015.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
In 2014, she released a track on the Printer Clips album, the side-project of Bell X 1's lead singer Paul Noonan.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Also in 2014, she began to work and perform with Scottish folk outfit Lau, producing their album The Bell That Never Rang, released in May 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://brightonsfinest.com/html/index.php/1904-joan-as-police-woman-interview-2016|title=Joan As Police Woman - Interview - 2016|last=Hemmings|first=Jeff|website=brightonsfinest.com|access-date=2016-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123054329/http://brightonsfinest.com/html/index.php/1904-joan-as-police-woman-interview-2016|archive-date=November 23, 2016|url-status=dead}}
In 2015, Joan performed with the English alternative rock band Placebo on their MTV Unplugged session. She sang a duet with vocalist Brian Molko in the song "Protect Me from What I Want".{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
In 2020, Joan appeared on the Gorillaz song "Simplicity" from their seventh album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/gorillaz-song-machine-season-one-strange-timez-album-tracklist-robert-smith-2749027|title=Gorillaz team up with Robert Smith on 'Strange Timez' and share star-studded 'Song Machine' tracklist|website=Nme.com|date=September 9, 2020|access-date=November 6, 2021}}
Discography
= Studio albums =
= Compilation albums =
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== EPs ==
- Joan as Police Woman (self-released 2004 – CD; re-released February 27, 2006)
== Singles ==
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! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Year ! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Title ! scope="col" colspan="3" | Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Album | ||
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| BEL ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| SCO
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| UK | ||
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| rowspan="4"| 2006
! scope="row"| "My Gurl" | — | — | —
| Joan as Police Woman |
| scope="row"| "The Ride"
| — || 71 || 144 | rowspan="5"| Real Life | ||
| scope="row"| "Eternal Flame"
| — || 63 || 132 | ||
| scope="row"| "Christobel"
| — || 84 || 200 | ||
| rowspan="2"| 2007
! scope="row"| "Flushed Chest" | — | — | — |
| scope="row"| "Real Life"
| — || — || — | ||
| rowspan="3"| 2008
! scope="row"| "To Be Loved" | — | — | —
| rowspan="4"| To Survive |
| scope="row"| "Holiday"
| — || — || — | ||
| scope="row"| "To America"
| — || — || — | ||
| 2009
! scope="row"| "Start of My Heart" | — | — | — |
| rowspan="3"| 2011
! scope="row"| "The Magic" | 59 | — | —
| rowspan="3"| The Deep Field |
| scope="row"| "Nervous"
| — || — || — | ||
| scope="row"| "Chemmie"
| — || — || — | ||
| 2013
! scope="row"| "The Classic" | 104 | — | —
| rowspan="4"| The Classic |
| rowspan="3"| 2014
! scope="row"| "Holy City" | 104 | — | — |
| scope="row"| "Witness"
| — || — || — | ||
| scope="row"| "Shame"
| — || — || — | ||
| rowspan="2"| 2016
! scope="row"| "Broke Me in Two" | — | — | —
| rowspan="2"| Let It Be You |
| scope="row"| "Let It Be You"
| — || — || — | ||
| rowspan="2"| 2017
! scope="row"| "Warning Bell" | — | — | —
| rowspan="3"| Damned Devotion |
| scope="row"| "Wonderful"
| — || — || — | ||
| 2018
! scope="row"| "Tell Me" | 84 | — | — |
| 2019
! scope="row"| "Kiss" | — | — | —
| rowspan="6"| Cover Two |
| rowspan="5"| 2020
! scope="row"| "Spread" | — | — | — |
| scope="row"| "Out of Time"
| — || — || — | ||
| scope="row"| "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"
| — || — || — | ||
| scope="row"| "Not the Way"
| — || — || — | ||
| scope="row"| "Under Control"
| — || — || — | ||
| colspan="19" style="font-size:90%"| "—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory. |
= Compilation appearances =
- 2003: Jane Magazine compilation ("Prime Mover")
- 2007: Back to Mine: Guillemots ("The Ride")
- 2008: Mojo Presents The White Album Recovered Vol. 1 ("I Will")
- 2012: Spirit of Talk Talk (Myrrhman)
- 2012: The Separate – Orchestral Variations V.01 (This Night Has Opened My Eyes){{cite web |url=http://www.theseparate.co.uk/ |title=Orchestral Variations V.01 |publisher=The Separate |access-date=2014-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425224338/http://www.theseparate.co.uk/ |archive-date=April 25, 2014 |url-status=dead }}
- 2020: Songs for Australia, performing a cover of Gotye's "Hearts a Mess"
References
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External links
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- [https://joanaspolicewoman.com/ Official website]
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Category:Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni
Category:People from Biddeford, Maine
Category:Musicians from Norwalk, Connecticut
Category:Independent Music Awards winners
Category:21st-century American women singers
Category:Anohni and the Johnsons members
Category:The Dambuilders members
Category:21st-century American singers
Category:21st-century American violinists