Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

New song up. "Kingfisher"

http://www.dragcity.com/

nothing's different from Y's but no complains here

i like it quite a bit better than the abrasively busy production on Ys. these tracks breathe

http://pitchfork.com/news/37875-joanna-newsom-gets-her-own-scholarly-tribute-book/

I'm buying this.

My general indifference has suddenly become massive appreciation for her comedic timing (starting here and going forward in Sophie's feed):

Interviewing Joanna Newsom yesterday, we sat beside the pool at a Hollywood hotel and the sunshine was so bright we had to move tables.

Which meant moving away from Quentin Tarantino who was busy holding court very loudly about how he wrote Inglourious Basterds

and how he "woke up one day and wrote on a piece of paper 'JUST KILL HIM. JUST FUCKING KILL HIM'"

to which Joanna muttered "damn, he stole my line"

hahahaha

that book has the potential to be amazing or horrid, probably both in alternation. a kind of scansion of her lyrics wouldn't be so bad. i'd hire nabisco to write that.

academics writing about music is a near-guarantee of total fail.

Joanna Newsom confirmed for Matt Groening ATP Festival

( insert Lisa Simpson joke here )

Not sure how over 2 hours of Joanna Newsom in a triple album format could be ALL GOOD. I find it highly unlikely and already don't LOVE all the new songs, but I'm intrigued to say the least. That said 2 + hours of her singing (generally non stop) is just too much

you don't need to listen to it all at once no?

its really only 40 mins cause youre supposed to listen to each cd simultaneously on three different players

i've seen the new album reviewed in a few places...i thought DC decided against promos?

there isnt supposed to be any info released before 2/19--they were hella strict about it

i think those are just rewritten drag city press releases.

This one is from Wire apparently
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John Mulvey's Uncut review here: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=6&title=joanna_newsom_have_one_on_me&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

And...it's leaked.

Did a solid job keeping it off the net for as long as possible, considering the record comes out on Tuesday.

It's a rickroll.

I'm not downloading it either way.

at 3 discs, this is the most ambitious rickroll yet

Nah, it's just astley mixed up with the animal crack box to thank ilm for what happened on the mpp thread.

it's just astley mixed up with the animal crack box

So sad, but hilarious.

so officially we can talk about this now i guess

its fuckin great

fans will dig it but no one else will be converted

unfortunately it doesnt all sound like good intentions paving co., which kind of sucks b/c thats one of my favorite tracks on the album

is it like ys?

in what way?

nothing on it is quite as... committed as ys, though she retains some of that shifting song structure

and she ditches the string accompaniment.

i mean this is like the simplest, easiest, most cliched thing to say about it, but it just sounds like shes "maturing as an artist." theres no dramatic shift in tone or sound, just a solidifying of her skills, like shes getting more and more comfortable with what she does.

and she ditches the string accompaniment.

ah. that's ^^^^^ what i was driving at.

since the string arrangements are the thing i remember most about the last disc -- and i'm still lukewarm on her voice -- not sure how i'll feel about the new album(s).

there is arguably the least amount of filler in a 3-disc album ive ever heard, too

Man, it'll be a good Tuesday.

it's actually available today. i just scored the vinyl @ amoeba, sf. guess somebody's worried about leakage

Probably depends on what stores are in your area. Around here, we just have Newbury Comics and then Target/Best Buy kind of shit.

fans will dig it but no one else will be converted

yeah i couldn't get into her first 2 but the stuff i've heard from this one has me wanting to buy it

first disc so good

my album of the year already, and i haven't heard a note

― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:41 PM

it's my second favorite album of the year, behind the new broken social scene.

You guys are ridiculous.

it represents a new definition of beauty, obviating all previous definitions and exposing all artists' previous efforts in every genre & discipline as the hollow posturing efforts they actually were - 8.1

i'm going to go ahead and call this the album of the decade

Nah, Grizzly Bear's fifth album is going to be album of the decade.

i heard joanna newsom guests on that.

Yeah, but it was the collaboration with Fleet Foxes that puts it over the edge.

"In California" might convert a couple of haters - straight-up gorgeous 70s style folk ballad, nothing "freak"-y about it.

never anything 'freak'-y about her music and less marmite here as well. yeah I think this album could convert some people who think she's about affectations -- Ys should've done that, but shorter songs are easier arguments and van dykes parts heavy arrangements are nowhere in sight

parks* that is

You guys are ridiculous.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

Was kidding by quoting my own admittedly ridiculous hyperbole.

it represents a new definition of beauty, obviating all previous definitions and exposing all artists' previous efforts in every genre & discipline as the hollow posturing efforts they actually were - 8.1

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Friday, February 19, 2010 5:37 PM

That's the title of her next record, iirc.