anais mitchell - young man in america

Anyone else enjoying Anais Mitchell's new album?

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/anais-mitchell-young-man-in-america-round-24-toms-selection/

Obviously not!

the Bonny Light Horseman album (Mitchell / Eric Johnson of Fruit Bats / Josh Kaufman) is gorgeous, I've had it on repeat all morning. Helps if, like me, "revisionist trad-folk" is one of your favorite things.

Mitchell and Johnson ... those voices, man

yeah I've never been that big on Fruit Bats but they sound wonderful together

finally a good horseman

Only just come across this. Sounding perfect this evening.

I'm glad she found massive success on Broadway cause otherwise she is wildly underappreciated

Assuming we're talking about Bonny Light Horseman, yes it's totally lovely.

I listened to it when it came out but then it got lost on the far side of February hospitalisation for me, rediscovering it this week has been a joy.

one of my most listened to this year, a total balm.

Believe this to be among the best folk albums of the century.

New self-titled is great, too, with a more expansive sound.

Assuming you’re talking about Young Man in America and not Bonny Light Horseman, which sort of hijacked the thread in the posts above yours, I whole-heartedly agree. Criminally slept on.

The new one hasn’t clicked with me yet but I imagine it will. Her own recording of Hadestown followed by Young Man is one of my favorite one-two punches in recent memory.

Yep

I hadn’t even realised the new album was out - turns out it’s been out for months??

Anyway, this is excellent, very much of a piece with Young Man In America and The Brightness (which I like as much if not even more than Young Man) - spare and crystalline and sympathetically arranged, nothing getting in the way of Anais’s voice and the directness of her songwriting, a directness that might be corny if her portraits weren’t always so skilfully drawn, so tender, so knowing but generous - her persona in her songs always reminds me of the woman in Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” (“she knew your life, she knew your devils and your deeds and she said, ‘go to him, stay with him if you can, but be prepared to bleed…’”).

I do wonder if she’ll ever embrace the ambition of Hadestown again, but it’s very difficult to resent the smaller and more intimate targets of the rest of her work when she hits them so skilfully.

spare and crystalline and sympathetically arranged, nothing getting in the way of Anais’s voice and the directness of her songwriting, a directness that might be corny if her portraits weren’t always so skilfully drawn, so tender, so knowing but generous

cheers for the revive all. never heard her before but the glowing positivity got me curious. first listen to young man in america presently and this is damn good. instant love on "dyin' day." still in the middle of the album, but this is serious business so far.

holy smokes this is fantastic. "shepherd" was a heartbreaker, damn. 4.5 mics. definitely checking out the rest of the discography.

Yes, "Shepherd" is amazing. Absolutely gorgeous and impressive finger picking pattern.

xxxxp Great post, Tim F!

https://pitchfork.com/news/bonny-light-horseman-announce-new-album-and-tour-share-new-song-california-listen/

New BLH album coming in Oct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNI48Q-xhRk

lovely news

their voices work well together, imo

listening to the new album right now. it's darn good. excited for the new stuff, too. "california" sounds warm and wistful. grateful to have discovered her music.♥

*newER stuff

I was in NYC last week and finally got to see Hadestown on Broadway. Without a doubt the most enjoyable musical I've ever seen. Just an outrageously impressive evolution from the Hadestown album to what she produced for Broadway. At times was so absorbed with watching the musicians on stage, especially the trombone player, that the show (which is itself truly exceptional for its ability to do so much with so little) became secondary.

Saw Hadestown for the second time this weekend in Chicago. Highly recommend it if you have the chance to see it on this tour. The guy they have playing Hades is outrageously great.