Marina Rosenfeld / Warrior Queen: “Hard Love” (P.A. / Hard Love, Room40 2013)

I’ll admit that I was thrown off by Warrior Queen’s presence on Marina Rosenfeld’s album last year; her voice and spoken word style lent an extremely different quality that is far out of bounds of Rosenfeld’s sometimes otherwise understated sound experiments. But even though I had trouble embracing it as a full album (which is why I hadn’t posted about it here previously), there’s something striking about how odd the combination of influences and sounds is nonetheless…