To Survive is the second album by Joan as Police Woman

Joan Wasser

Joan Wasser is a violinist and singer/songwriter in the indie rock world. She began her career playing violin with the Dambuilders. She has released three albums as a singer songwriter, the 2006 Real Life the 2008 To Survive and the 2011 The Deep Field...

. It was released on June 9, 2008, and made available on CD

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, LP

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 and digital download

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The album was released on Reveal Records

Reveal Records

Reveal Records started life as an independent music retailer in Derby, England. It won Music Week's "Best Independent Music Retailer 2005"and was nominated for best indie in 2006 and 2007 while they also set up a record label called Reveal Records Label with artists such as Joan as Policewoman,...

 in the United Kingdom, on Cheap Lullaby in the United States and on PIAS in Europe and the rest of the world.

The album received generally favorable reviews, including a metascore of 76 on Metacritic

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 and Paste

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 magazine's Editor's Pick in their July 2008 issue. The album was number #43 in Q

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Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...

s 50 Best Albums of the Year 2008.

The album cover is also a reference to Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

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Track listing

1. "Honor Wishes" (featuring David Sylvian
   David Sylvian
   David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
   
   )
2. "Holiday"
3. "To Be Loved"
4. "To Be Lonely"
5. "Magpies"
6. "Start of My Heart"
7. "Hard White Wall"
8. "Furious"
9. "To Survive"
10. "To America" (featuring Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
    
    )

The Japanese version of “To Survive” includes three bonus tracks:

1. "No Question" (featuring David Sylvian
   David Sylvian
   David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
   
   )
2. "Take Me"
3. "Radish (To Be Free)"