| The Deep Field | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Joan as Police Woman |
| Cover: | thedeepfield.jpg |
| Released: | January 24, 2011 |
| Recorded: | 2010 |
| Length: | 55:35 |
| Label: | Reveal[1] |
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| Prev Title: | Cover |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | The Classic |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
The Deep Field is the third regular studio album by Joan as Police Woman, released in 2011.[1] [2]
The album has received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 14 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[3]
In a positive review, Q magazine stated, "There is slick virtuosity to all the playing here but it is her warm, witty presence that shines through."[4] James Skinner, in his 8/10 review for BBC Music says "...there is something fantastically indulgent and heartening going on here: the sense that Wasser is embracing her peculiarities and making giddy, ebullient light of them. Long may she continue to do so."[5] Andy Gill, from The Independent called it "everything the Adele album lacks: real emotional insight, couched in genuinely soulful arrangements bristling with imagination."[6] However, Michael Cragg's review for The Guardian was mixed, saying, "Wasser's featherlight voice suits the slower songs, it has a tendency to sound slightly one-dimensional on the over-fussy bigger numbers, and there are moments when it drifts too close to polite MOR."[7] In a negative review, David Raposa for Pitchfork Media criticized the overall sound of the album stating, "While she aims for such critically acclaimed heights, her shots often land in a middle-of-the-road, adult-contemporary wasteland."[8]