Joan Wasser aka JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN returns to the fray on July 13th 2021 with a new single, ‘Take Me To Your Leader’, an impassioned call to arms from this unique and supremely gifted musician.

Take Me To Your Leader is the first taste of the album The Solution Is Restless written and recorded with Dave Okumu of The Invisible and legendary drummer Tony Allen shortly before he sadly...

Album released May 24th 2019

  • The Times - ‘The coolest woman in pop’
  • Uncut – ‘This is breathtakingly good music'
  • Mojo – ‘full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn’
  • Sunday Times - ‘Sensational’
  • The Guardian -‘a voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane’
  • Q - ‘Beautiful’

Joan Wasser aka JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN releases ‘JOANTHOLOGY’, her first ever career...

To coincide with a run of headline shows and festival appearances across Europe this Summer, Joan As Police Woman will release a new single, ‘STEED (For Jean Genet)’, from her rapturously received new album ‘DAMNED DEVOTION’

Joan Wasser (aka Joan As Police Woman) on ‘Steed’: I have a fetish for writers. I read a lot of Genet several years ago; it fit the place I was...

Joan As Police Woman today reveals the video for ‘Tell Me’, the second single to be taken from her new album Damned Devotion, which is due for release on 9 February via Play It Again Sam. Watch the video for ‘Tell Me’ here.

Speaking about the video, Joan says: “The director, Brian Crano, and I became friends when I scored his upcoming featurePermission (released the same day as my...

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN returns with a new album, Damned Devotion, and it’s her best yet.

Already acknowledged as a thrilling live performer and starkly honest lyricist, Damned Devotion finds Joan Wasser at her rawest. While her 2014 album The Classic was a soulful celebration of life and her 2011 album The Deep Field a lush moody expansion, this new release sees her stripping her compositions back to the core,...

With her forthcoming effort Damned Devotion, Joan As Police Woman delves deeper into the emotional subjects she’s never been afraid to address in the first place. The album will find Joan Wasser at her rawest, most pensive and even her most free—she maintains her timeless melodies but couples them with experimental percussive elements, which she programs with the help of drummer Parker Kindred. The rhythms build a strong foundation for...

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN returns with a new album, Damned Devotion, and it’s her best yet.

The first track to be shared from the album is Warning Bell, a tender, bewitching song of regret Joan wrote about “being a romantic and the naiveté that goes along with it.”

Directed by New York filmmaker/artist H Spencer Young (hspenceryoung.com) Joan wanted to capture the performance of the song without obscuring...

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN returns with a new album, Damned Devotion, and it’s her best yet.

Already acknowledged as a thrilling live performer and starkly honest lyricist, Damned Devotionfinds Joan Wasser at her rawest. While her 2014 album The Classic was a soulful celebration of life and her 2011 album The Deep Field a lush moody expansion, this new release sees her stripping her compositions back to the core,...

Joan As Police Woman Announces New Album 'The Classic'

The Classic, the much anticipated new album from the supremely talented JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, will be released MARCH 10TH 2014 on Play It Again Sam It is available to pre-order now with physical formats from: https://www.musicglue.com/joan-as-police-woman/ and digitally from iTunes: http://georiot.co/4Hj

“I’m in the best place I’ve ever been in my life,” declares Joan Wasser, and she’s just recorded the album that proves it. The Classic, the fourth...