Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

dude I am a *huge* fan of Chrome Hoof which is the Smee brothers' disco-metal side-project - given the quality of that, it's a pretty surefire bet I'll dig Cathedral, so yeah I'll be on that just as soon as Joanna lets me outta the bedroom

There are no new cathedrals.

joanna peesom

― (uh oh I'm having a fantasy)

Lou1s, can you kindly confirm/deny fantasy's fantasy for us?

ever wondered why it's called "sawdust & diamonds"?

No, but I have wondered about "the milk-eyed mender"...

nights in get pretty wild when you're knocking socks with semi-sylvan indie harpists

"tastes like unicorn tears"

heavens, what luck! she's in musth!

looooooouis!

(aka something good came out of this godforsaken thread)

thread is totally classic

gotta wade thru too many ilxor posts and ksh (i'm kidding! no maybe i'm not!) posts

the next artist on my iTunes is Jobriath, which feels quite apt somehow

Joanna Poosom

newsome/jobraith/virgin prunes trifecta of emoting doom

gotta wade thru too many ilxor posts and ksh (i'm kidding! no maybe i'm not!) posts

Nothing to say except you should've known this would get a reply from me. Which doesn't mean I have anything particularly useful to say (I don't), just that I'm giving you one more post to wade through. ;-)

The pictures in the liner notes might as well be from a Calvin Klein ad. And sweet jesus I had no idea her legs were so ridiculously long.

I'm impressed with the album after one listen. Reining in her voice and the overwrought/melodramatic moments of Ys plays to her advantage, in my opinion. She also sounds more confident and relaxed, which in turn has the songs breathing accordingly.

album of the decade

lol

magna carta -> gutenburg -> HOOM

too bad she couldn't have found space on this triple-disc to duet with ex-hold steady keyboardist, Fancy von Mustache.

Jobriath -> Mika -> Cathedral

What does HOOM stand for?
Holy Order of MANS (Monastic New Age group most of whose members converted to Eastern Orthodoxy)

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* Organizations, NGOs, schools, universities, etc.

Holy Order of MANS

if this revelation does not result in 1p3 feline photoshopping bacchanale I am asking for my money back

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...just finished listening to HOOM...my immediate impressions are varied. I don't think it's as sonically ambitious or melodically satisfying as Ys/but there are some stunning moments on this record. The songs that were previewed by Drag City, all stand-out in addition to Baby Birch, and the remarkable Go Long. Again, Newsom's lyrics shine throughout, and she continues her naturalist focus.

"all stand-out in addition to Baby Birch, and the remarkable Go Long"

funny. those are the "repetetive, boring one-line-melody" songs that i talked about before, but it seems lots of people like them.

I find this far more melodically rich than Ys, but perhaps that is a casualty of my regarding Ys with extreme suspicion and suspended boredom for so long. I don't know.

ok this is streaming on npr for the curious

good intentions paving and jackrabbit are nice...she's toned down the voice a lot which i guess jibes with what i read in the interview way upthread?

i'm gonna buy this and enjoy it more than ksh

ok this is streaming on npr for the curious masochistic

her tryouts for the somewhat other music styles than before are the best songs on the record.
(paving company,jackrabbits,soft as chalk..)

yes am i imagining things or is there no harp on some tracks?

iirc there is no harp on some tracks

Listening momentarily.

Oh man, here we go. Be back in two hours.

make sure to take a bathroom break

pack a sandwitch

Update @ about 10 minutes in: there's no way I'm going to listen to all two hours of this straight through.

lol

Believe me, I'm laughing at myself.

haha. he's been broken in under 10 minutes.

not enough high-register warbling vocals, eh?

I hear a chorus of ilxors mocking every note, and I'm waiting for a stampede of unicorns to break down the wall in front of me and smash into my computer.

i'm mocking now, and i haven't even heard a note

She's singing about daddy longlegs and I can't stop laughing. I hate all of you.

:-)

Man, I'm going to have to listen to this on a day off from ILM. I just can't concentrate. Turning on Dinosaur Jr.

Still my album of the year though, no lie.