Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

Occident hit me pretty hard today. Lyrics.

I don't agree with everything in this article, but I think it makes a lot of good points. It definitely articulates some of the reasons why I'm hesitant to even jump into this thread and start actually discussing this album.

good article, thanks.

I stumbled across a pretty cool interview with Joanna Newsom and her band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIw4U0rqup4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_N_MnAeT1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzH-1oC7zGM

Moodles -- thanks for posting these, i've just started the first one

man is that announcer dude insufferable

alright, so i watched all three videos, and they were great. if anyone's into her music, they're worth checking out

thanks, sugartits

she comes across as very funny and personable. she also says that she's been reading Nabokov's Ada, among other things, which wasn't so surprising because i've read her talking about Nabokov in the past

which reminds me, i still need to read Erik Davis's HOOM review

nice interview.
though i wonder how can a person, and one who makes music in particular, can manage without listening to any music at all for 2 years?

i was thinking about that, too . . . does she stop reading books, too? i really don't think i could go two years without other people's music or writing . . . but maybe when you're that deep in the writing process for a record your own stuff can sustain you

Why does she sound like Lisa Simpson singing through her anus on Occident?

if joanna newsom actually sounded like lisa simpson singing thru her anus, i might pick up one of her records. as it is, her voice sounds like a couple of cats getting into a fight in a room full of helium.

that's pure poetry guys, great job

the artistic progression that has been made over three albums ... in people's she-sounds-like-a-cat metaphors is astounding

maybe when you're that deep in the writing process for a record your own stuff can sustain you

Nonsense!

that's how it works for har mar superstar.

(AND OTHER BRILLIANT COMPOSERS)

http://pitchfork.com/news/38581-roots-and-monsters-of-folk-team-up/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS58_ZeLX1g

Why is this album so shitty?

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No. iirc the critical reception to this has been overwhelmingly positive.

sorry, the only time I've ever read anybody discuss Newman's records has been on ILX,

Huh?

any sales figures on this so far? i kinda thought with all the press she gets this had a shot to go at least top 20.
lol.

confession: i have not listened to any of HOOM from "Go Long" to "Does Not Suffice" more than once . . . and that one time was on release day

"'81" has 63 plays, though

With the exception of a few tracks (Go Long, No Provenance, and Kingfisher), I think this album is pretty darn great. I've listened to it a ton since it came out. I highly recommend quite a few of the songs on the later part of the album, especially Soft As Chalk, Esme, and Autumn.

Turangalila the reason this record has been so well received is because it is impossible to criticize. Who else is making lovingly crafted, impeccably orchestrated, analog triple disc albums in 2010? Nobody. She's the only person selling unicorn steaks, sorry if you don't like unicorn.

i like this album quite a bit.

Turangalila the reason this record has been so well received is because it is impossible to criticize. Who else is making lovingly crafted, impeccably orchestrated, analog triple disc albums in 2010? Nobody.

to be fair, iirc turangalia likes joanna newsom a lot. he just didn't like this new disc, maybe?

"Didn't like the new disc" is different from describing it as "shitty".

true.

could be a "regular album" masterpiece if 2/3 of it was left out.

81
good intentions
on a good day
in california
jackrabbits
soft as chalk

So basically I'm supposed to find this agreeable from some meta perspective and I'm supposed to be reverential about it?

I think precisely the fact that it is such an "ambitious" project makes the fact that the songs are so uneventful (and imo bad) more frustrating to me.

She's the only person selling unicorn steaks, sorry if you don't like unicorn.

Maybe within a very narrow, indie-centric perspective. But otherwise, no. Sorry.

fucking excellent new screenname Owen but that still cannot save this record

More specifically, I was so thrilled that I'd be eating what was consistently described as (and likely to be) unicorn steak but I tasted it and it turned out to be meatless. It was actually frozen, sickly sweet unagi sauce.

brb listening to the awesomely orchestrated new Nina Nastasia album

in theory i am willing to seriously stan for this album but in practice ehh

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Exactly.

still think this record is awesome though

actually i don't know, 'lovingly crafted, impeccably orchestrated' is kind of the thing -- like it's not a record where people are going to suddenly arrive at the opinion that she is amazing, from this record -- it's still a really, really, really good record

also i think it's her most generous-to-the-listener thing ever, despite being three discs long and the tracks averaging eight minutes

Also 0w3n, weren't you the one who was going on about how Ys should have been arranged by LOLWolfgang RihmLOL?

i like how Turangalila & I were hyping this record more than almost any other ilxors, then it comes out and T. doesn't like it & I've barely listened to anything beyond "'81."

that being said, I definitely should listen to it more.

can't imagine liking it more than Ys though, tbh

I definitely should listen to it more

it will change your life.

it's already changed mine.

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