Year: 2010.
Country:
Joanna Newsom discography rank: 2 (out of 7 listed on BEA)
2010 rank: 8
2010s rank: 43
Overall rank: 361
Average rating: 81/100 (from 522 votes).
Tracks:
1. Easy
2. Have One On Me
3. '81
4. Good Intentions Paving Company
5. No Provenance
6. Baby Birch
7. On A Good Day
8. You And Me, Bess
9. In California
10. Jackrabbits
11. Go Long
12. Occident
13. Soft As Chalk
14. Esme
15. Autumn
16. Ribbon Bows
17. Kingfisher
18. Does Not Suffice
indicates a top-rated track.
Top voted comments:
"This album right here. Heard it the first time today, thinking previously that Ys was her undisputed masterpiece. Ys sure feels sporadic and magical, but this album is focused, down to earth, human, and felt like much more of a statement. The quality of the album is so consistant, it baffles me how someone could write that much content that's all so fantastic. An instant favourite of mine. Literally can't wait to give it another spin."
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"I get why people don't like Joanna Newsom. Her voice is jarring, her songs are long, and filled with overly pretentious lyrics. I get it. I've heard all these complaints every time I've tried to make my friends listen to her, or read anything on the internet about her.
But unlike a lot of people I think who grew to enjoy her music, I never went through a period of hating Joanna Newsom. I loved Peach Plum Pair the first time I heard it. I'm not trying to portray myself as some cool original fan, but more disclose that I was just never going to not like this album. Or any of her albums. I like her voice, I like her long complex songs, I like her pretentious lyrics.
This album, though, does hold a special place in my heart. There is something so emotionally raw about songs like Baby Birch and In California that really gets to me. '81 is a good song of hers to listen to if her voice annoyed you in her previous albums - it's particularly clear on this song, and more obviously melodic than at other points on the album. Perhaps her best vocal performance on the album in my opinion though is in Does Not Suffice (another nearly 7 minute long heartache, complete with a lovely refrain from In California that feels particularly emotionally satisfying). It's also more straightforward lyrically than something like Have One On Me. The album moves well from really rich arrangements, to more intimate harp pieces.
These are some of my favourite bits ! I love it all to be honest.
"I don't belong to anyone
My heart is heavy as an oil drum
And I don't want to be alone
My heart is yellow as an ear of corn
And I have torn my soul apart, from
Pulling artlessly with fool commands"
"It does not suffice to merely lie beside each other
As those who love each other do"
"Wolf-spider, crouch in your funnel nest,
If I knew you, once
Now I know you less
In the sinking sand
Where we've come to rest,
Have I had a hand in your loneliness?"
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My point still stands from last time it was album of the day. I am probably never returning to it again.
You’re missing out Domme!!!
Possibly the greatest work of art of the last quarter century…
Much to admire about the deepening ‘interiority’ of the voice and the shimmering dream scape she traverses in the instrumentation and streams of consciousness and poetic verse of many of the songs. Whereas Ys, her previous masterpiece, was more ‘theatrical’ and demonstrative, even when aspiring to monologue or soliloquy.
The whole work has an astonishing depth of compassion, a loving grace, of yearning and empathy and “giving” in its emotional content, of all the while suppressing the inner urge to lash out, and of suppressing the inner urge to cry or to be upset out-right.
It is as if she, heartbroken and lost, has retreated back into herself as that of a child, a safer, peaceful, prettier place, an inner world to escape her troubles, a sort of “Alice in Wonderland” dream world.
She reaches out from within, in empathetic and giving and compassionate gesture, attempting to stand tall through the urge to cry, through the anger, through the spite, the disappointment, the heartbreak, etc — undercurrents of greater disturbance poetically alluded to and simmering beneath the surface, layered in her vocals and often lyrically countered, relayed, followed, accentuated in the instrumentation. _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
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