She is really sharp.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 3 September 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 3 September 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Jim O'RLY
Ha! I actually really like this album, although irrespective of the 11-minute average track length, she has done more interesting things with her voice and lyrics than with the music
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
That might actually be why it's good.
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Still . . . VDP
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never understood the appeal of VDP's arrangements. He always sounds like he's transcribing Fairport Convention solos. I wish Newsom had considered Jon Brion or Wolfgang Rihm.
― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Sunday, 3 September 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Wikipedia entry on 'Ys'
Also, someone on the K Records message board has posted a list of many more albums Pitchfork supposedly leaked:
I already know that this link to said post won't last forever, though
(I hope those links work.)
I'm not saying that I really know anything or have any real sources, I'm just saying that words are going around, is all. But, if any of this is true, I'd love, love, love to see Pitchfork go down. Fuck those bitches (save Nitsuh).
― blood bitch (blood bitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
And dleone & Tim Finney.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link
It's all enough to make me pine for an acid house revival. This "weird America" folkiness has to stop NOW. But the kitschy hubris of the Joanna Newsom sleeve might just do the trick. Hippies are always their own worst enemy. Ha ha ha.
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― genital hyphys (haitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
All right, Hot Hot Heat.
...An acid house revival would rock the shithouse, though.
― blood bitch (blood bitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― blood bitch (blood bitch), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope there's something there I'll discover in forthcoming listens, but at the moment: WTF?
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link
This is an album of really gorgeous moments (so far, still percolating) but I'm still quite dubious of her whole damn thing really.
― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
there's definitely a sort of blandness to the actual sounds though, despite how well they move here.
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
It's so gorgeous..."and all those lonely nights down by the RIIIVERRR"
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The movement between parts reminds me of the randomizing systems used by Eno in "Three Variations on Canon in D," except that here there seems to be an element of mutual inspiration between the words and the music. None of the songs ever achieve resolution, but simply peter out when the time is right.
The whole thing is pretty syrupy and smooth, but I think that her poetry is strong enought to overcome the lack of edges. And it's full of absolutely gorgeous melodies.
― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
If you wanted it to sound like Rufus Wainwright... then yeah, I guess.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link
... maybe, but the fact that it's the first track on the most famous HARP album in modern folk music is surely no coincidence
― Ich Ber Ein Binliner (Dada), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
The first sign of the apocalypse?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bumpershine.com/2006/09/01/joanna-newsom-ys-a-closer-look.html
I've been listening to it all weekend. I have some thoughts but no time to organize them.
― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
she's shown admirable restraint in keeping this under 3 discs of material I guess.
as opposed to Sufjan "bank! bank! bank now!" Stevens...
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), September 5th, 2006. (Ned) (link)
Haha. Indeed.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― emekars (emekars), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
-My beautiful and astute wife, reacting to my praise of this record as it played on our long car trip this afternoon
Much like the time she challenged me to defend the Minutemen's "slap bass parts," I was at a loss.
She's becoming the Andy Rooney of indie rock, that one.
My opinion on YS is unchanged, however - a meticulous, dense and beautiful record I will definitely be coming back to often. Reminds me of Astral Weeks in places. Anyone else?
― Wand Milius (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
But her latest output is watered-down grocery store music, I'll give you that.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Wand Milius
Yup. Also In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I think I'm waiting until its release to finally listen to Ys. My only regret is that her publicity shot couldn't have been the album cover. Don't labels care about record sales anymore?
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha, that's the only one they pretty much didn't do anything to. It's still just harp and voice.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link
"Cosmia" is relatively short and snappy and it has a killer Joni Mitchell-ish hook. Well, it's 7 minutes long but that's as close as you're gonna get.
Anyway:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Three_female_druids.jpg/727px-Three_female_druids.jpg
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
-- M. V. (m...), September 5th, 2006.
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Oh, please.
― james brooks (j_brooks), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― just say no to individuality (fandango), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link