The three hundred and fifty-ninth album: #359 Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading has created a good folk rock album here - upbeat and rockier than the name implies, the guitars often feeling harder. It's got a lot to unpack in that sense, fusing gospel and harder rock into what could be a gentle folk rock album, and there are some songs here that feel like they could work in a stadium. It's a good fusion of different elements - nothing that's stood out to me as special, but it all just works really well.