Electric Ursa

Recorded in Louisville, Kentucky, in the Summer of 2013 and Spring of 2014. Engineered by Kevin Ratterman (1, 2, 3, 5, 6), Anthony Fossaluzza (4,7), and Daniel Martin Moore (8). Mixing: Kevin Ratterman. Photography: Mickie Winters (cover) and DMM.

On the stellar and small Electric Ursa, her third album but first to be widely distributed, the Kentucky singer Joan Shelley lets prepositions hang with no object, tucks nouns into vivid verb-less clusters, and prefers pronouns that linger with little clear meaning.