
Yah, that chick with the harp that pitchfork has been shitting them selves for. I'll admit I came into this expecting to hate the album, everyone was all "ohhh it'll change your life" so I wanted to be different and not like it. Unfortunately I wont be able to be the one person who doesn't love this album. Joanna Newsom in her previous albums was alot more screechy and had much less control in her voice. Yes, I did like her but I could only listen [...]

Criticizing an album before anyone's ever heard it would be a bizarre thing to do. Bizarrely, I think I'm going do just that. Y'see, I'm just a little concerned about one of my favorite artists. Joanna Newsom's Ys was one of my favorite albums of the last ten years, but she's announced her follow up, Have One On Me , is going to be a triple. There's no track listing yet, but whatever it is will be released on 3xCDs, or 3xLPs. [...]
I've been watching this video about once every two days for the past two weeks, and I'm absolutely enchanted. It's rather old (2007, which was, like, before Merriweather Post Pavilion even came out ), but it's gorgeous all the same. It's a performance on Later...with Jools Holland by my fiancée, Joanna Newsom , of "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie." Basically, if you took the concept of beauty and put it in a blender and diced it and then pureéd what's left, it would be only the tip of the icing on the cake [...]