“I’ve always felt like I’m a slower person, compared to a lot of people," Ana Roxanne said in 2023. She was on a tour stop in Europe, speaking about her debut album, 2020’s Because of a Flower , a beguiling collection of pooling drones, ambient noise, and echoes of her spellbinding voice. She was working on her follow-up, but it wasn’t coming along quickly: “I don’t want to take five years to make this one,” she mused to Pitchfork in 2021. In the end she didn’t take five years; she took six. But some revelations need space to unfold, and Poem 1 is just that: a revelation. The feelings Roxanne captures are the ones that take the longest to develop—the shapeless internal sensations that can only be coaxed to the surface by blocking out the world and delving inward. This process not only requires time, it asks for a sort of grace. If six years is what Roxanne needs to produce a leap in scale as bracing as Poem 1 , then so be it: This will cast shadows deep and long enough to sit underneath for a long time.…