it was recorded all over the place by five people: t j doherty, noah georgeson, ryan francesconi, dana gumbiner and neal morgan - @ radiostar in weed; at fantasy (berkeley), sear sound (ny); king sound & pictures(laurel canyon); cedar house (sea-town); station to station (grass valley).mixed by noah g (laurel canyon); jim O'Rourke @ magnet (Japan).mastering by steve rooke @ Abbey Road Studios
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 21 February 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks thanks
― bowl of drawn butter (Eazy), Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish I liked this album half as much as everyone else. Most of these new songs just aren't very good, imo. None of the (plentiful on Ys) revelatory climactic resolutions are there, save for a couple of songs (which sounded 1000x more affecting live anyway). Obviously a lot of thought & work has been put into this album, but I think the sparser arrangements/deliberate restraint only help reveal how brittle and deceitfully noneventful most of this whole thing really is.
― Turangalila, Monday, 22 February 2010 04:59 (fourteen years ago) link
A lot of the songs are actually musically really repetitive. It's seriously ten minutes of her doing variations on the same melody line. Yes it breathes more than Ys and she's (IMO) singing much better, and her lyrics and storytelling is pretty great, but musically and chordally these songs really drag and don't really do that much. Even when they crescendo they crescendo on the same chord progression and generally peter out on the same one too. It's not as EXHAUSTING as Ys, but it's also nowhere near as interesting. That said I find it infinitely more listenable but still something I'd never see myself reaching for much
― Emily's Cheese, Monday, 22 February 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― idgi, mon (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 February 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
wow we got that wrapped up, what, 40 hours after it leaked?
you instant let-me-hold-forth guys ever take yr time with anything?
― sean gramophone, Monday, 22 February 2010 06:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuck, I like "Good Intentions Paving Company." I think it could be a little shorter (around 4:00 it takes some of my breath away, but then there's still 3 minutes to go and it's a let-down waiting for it to end), but it's so pretty at moments that it even makes me forget how annoying her voice is. Particularly what she does at, "But I fell for you, honey, as easy as falling asleep," and, "It had a nice a ring to it / When the old opera house rang / So with a song I'm all ran / Signed, sealed, delivered I sang."
― Mordy, Monday, 22 February 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
brb sean gramophone, questioning my worth as a human being
― Turangalila, Monday, 22 February 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone, Monday, February 22, 2010 1:14 AM Bookmark
That's what she said.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 February 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm waiting for the 2020 quadruple "deluxe edition" with previously unreleased bonus tracks.
― Zeno, Monday, 22 February 2010 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
The CD packaging is really cool. Its like a flip open (side spine) actual "box" a little under half an inch deep, then each disc is in its own sleeve and a pretty hefty book of liner notes and lyrics. The pictures on the sleeve covers and the lyric book certainly back up her emphasizing the "hot" Joanna Newsom. Black and white photos of her lounging on a chair wearing what sort of looks like a bathing suit with overall type straps over the shoulders.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the first time I'll be going to the record store the day of release in a while!
― ksh, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The store I stopped by this afternoon just happened to have it out already!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 February 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
So anyone able to buy copies of this in Austin, TX yet?
― Moodles, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw them at end of an ear on saturday
― city worker, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish more people respected the release date for the album of the year. Respect, respect!
― ksh, Monday, 22 February 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if it will sound different if i wait til tomorrow to illegally download it
― idgi, mon (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Thieves!
― ksh, Monday, 22 February 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Why wait until tomorrow when you can do that today?
― Australia, the world's suburb (SeekAltRoute), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Have One On Me = I give you permission to download my record illegally
― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Monday, 22 February 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"... pretty hefty book of liner notes and lyrics"
rilly? the vinyl box has no notes, just lyrics and recording info.
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Black and white photos of her lounging on a chair wearing what sort of looks like a bathing suit with overall type straps over the shoulders.
wait--i think you're confusing this with the new robert wyatt record.
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
velko otm
― idgi, mon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Analog recording + orchestra + 2 hours of music + cost of harp upkeep. Probably cost at least 50k to make. $25 for three vinyls.
― Megadeth Panel (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
+ couture!
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
^ Likely comp'd, or discounted. At least, I hope so.
― Megadeth Panel (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
You are correct, I jumped the gun. Its all lyrics and recording info, just seemed like there had to be more to it than that. I forget how many words she crams into songs.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Andy Samberg 9.2!!!!!
― Emily's Cheese, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Thing is, "Ys" had long songs, but it was 1 CD, so was digestible.
This is 3 CDs of long (and some not so long, heck one's short!) songs.
I haven't attempted it yet!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Mere hours before the record store opens.
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i wish drag city would man the fuck up and let their stuff stream on lala or whatever
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
So anyone able to buy copies of this in Austin, TX yet?― Moodles, Monday, February 22, 2010 4:33 PM (Yesterday)i saw them at end of an ear on saturday― city worker, Monday, February 22, 2010 4:38 PM (Yesterday)
― Moodles, Monday, February 22, 2010 4:33 PM (Yesterday)
― city worker, Monday, February 22, 2010 4:38 PM (Yesterday)
I saw it there on Friday afternoon -- politely inquired that I didn't think it had been released yet, and they replied that they had heard otherwise from Drag City, and put it onto the shelves that day, so who knows...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I left all the copies there for you fans, btw.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The pictures on the sleeve covers and the lyric book certainly back up her emphasizing the "hot" Joanna Newsom. Black and white photos of her lounging on a chair wearing what sort of looks like a bathing suit with overall type straps over the shoulders.
This is sad, but was due to happen sooner or later, I suppose. Gotta inject something new into her image, it'd be impossible to keep up with the "Hipster Renaissance Fair" look of Ys forever...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i am playing hard to get and waiting til i can pick this up next week before listening, but the pitchfork review of it is great, so clear and devoid of cliche
― Norman Mail (schlump), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
This is sad,
why?
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Visions of Joanna
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
or emusic, even! I NEED THIS NEW TRIPLE-DISC FROM JOANNA NEWSOM.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:43 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
innocent fairy prince sullied & sexualised by music business is certainly a trope on JN messageboards
― Norman Mail (schlump), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Slightly off-topic, but I would suggest, with the best intentions, that naming shops that are perhaps selling things early is not always going to do them a good turn.
I know of specific instances where blog posts and message board chat has landed local independents round here in minor bother on such fronts.
Not that any shops would do such things, of course. Also, I genuinely don't know the specifics of the release date and Drag City and US indies communications in this case. It's more of a general point that I'm trying to raise.
― krakow, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
so apparently after going massively out of the way to make sure it didn't leak they're releasing it ten days later in europe?
― thomp, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
no wait just a week i suck at math
still kinda stupid imo
These CDs do not want to come out of the paper sleeves easily.
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"On A Bad Day" -- thought that was a Daniel Powter cover for a moment
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Take this as a sign, turn away before it is too late...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
C -
― thomp, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Had to tag the first and third disc myself. iTunes was able to pull in the art. Genre: harpcore
― ksh, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
are you liveblogging now
― thomp, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
ksh: Listening to Joanna Newsom's new album so I don't have to!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link