Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

I love how deliberately 70s "Good Intentions..." is.

i thought first of mary mccaslin, and then, very strongly, of joni mitchell (it's the phrasing).

Yes, I definitely hear that.

so glad this will not leak//brings back the old excitement of going to a record shop and picking it up!

"According to the website what the new album will sound like is a bit of a mystery, since advance copies are not being sent to critics in an effort to avoid a leak of the album.[9] Joanna's last album, Ys, was leaked two months before its original release when it was left unprotected on servers belonging to music review website Pitchfork"

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anybody knows whos the producer?
"good intentions" sounds like something Jim O'rourke could produce and it's surprising to see her move from freak-folk to 70's rock-jazz.
very good track.

Ugh. Tell me all about the "no review copies." I get mine the day it comes out. Boooooo.

No review copies is a good idea. The album will sell fine.

Oh, it is. But GIPCo. can't hold me over forever.

blame pitchfork

Oh man, Ys was one of the records people took from that unprotected P4k folder, right? massive lols

wait, you guys haven't heard the leak of this yet? wow

Hope you listened to all three discs in one sitting.

the difficult life of the music critic
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The album of the year does not leak, it must be purchased.

"blame pitchfork"

i tend to do this with everything in my life.

sink overflowing? FUCKING PITCHFORK.
cigarette prices go up? FUCKING PITCHFORK.
12 year old girls with braces saying "I LOVE YOU PANDA" at animal collective shows? FUCKING.PICKFORK. INDEED.

pickfork, pitchfork, same difference.

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^Totally disagree about the lack of emotional resonance on Ys. *angry face*

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