Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

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.

the album of the year will be by a Texan duo called "l3 kn0t." but don't tell them that, because they're not finished recording it, and if they get all self-conscious they'll screw it up.

http://www.l3kn0t.com/

^ replace obvious characters

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^ fire yr SEO guy imo

That's the title of her next record

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right

^

from memory

this is good, so far: more joni mitchell or randy newman (one song i think actually quoted 'davy the fat boy') than previous work. still plenty to hate on if you want to hate on shit, i think she just sung about finding a violin in the garden of eden.

'good intentions paving company' is so awesome: most immediately appealing i've heard her be since the first record, and probably moreso.

yeah good intentions paving co. is the highlight for me.

other faves: baby birch, in california, does not suffice

I'm not usually one to have a problem with "weird" vocals--big Bjork, Knife, Arthur Russell, David Thomas et al fan--but I admit previously I found Newsom's bubble-and-squeak voice prevented me from accessing what seemed like otherwise careful, compelling music. But I was impressed with "'81," and totally wowed by "Good Intentions Paving Company," which pretty much seems like the best mid-70s sophisticated singer-songwriter track that never was--Joni Mitchell would've been very proud to have created it. So I'm hoping to be "converted" by the album, and glad to hear the vocal quirks may have been traded in for a more relaxed, confident voice.

which one is better, this or the Redd Fox one?

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/8kZljgHzlhs/default.jpg

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

― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Friday, 19 February 2010 21:55

So does the vinyl include free mp3 downloads?

"Maybe a bit too long"

understatement?