Joanna Newsom Ys
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Squiggly
January 23rd 2024


1531 Comments


Have you never heard one of her songs or just a full album? Do you remember what is sounded like?

Nikkolae
January 23rd 2024


6909 Comments


Not a single one, i just know her because of sput hahaha, i think it sounded kinda like the decemberists haha

AmericanFlagAsh
January 23rd 2024


13689 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Lmao check her

neekafat
Emeritus
January 23rd 2024


26926 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Very nice

Demon of the Fall
January 23rd 2024


39012 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

'i think it sounded kinda like the decemberists haha'

fortunately not in reality, lol

I mean the Decemberists are probably alright (been yonks since I heard any of their stuff) but I'm pretty confident in saying I'd rather take real life Newsom over your dream version

Nikkolae
January 24th 2024


6909 Comments


Checked this out and yea it aint for me but its good tho lol

Pheromone
March 2nd 2024


21850 Comments


+174

When I was a kid Joanna Newsom would have been the ideal girl for me. If we had been in school together I would have always tried to get the seat next to hers in biology class so we could laugh and giggle at anatomy diagrams, or I would stand near her in the lunch queue, or even give up my space in the lunch queue so she could get the best choice of chicken breast. I would have tried to look deep and thoughtful by frowning a lot and growing a fuzz moustache and scratching ironic cries for help in to my desk. She would no doubt have spurned my somewhat creepy and stalker-like advances with just as much indifference as she would have spurned my chivalrous actions as she would have been, on the evidence of Ys, far too deep a thinker for my teenage brain, fascinated rather than amused by anatomy, and ironic and funny without having to pretend.

She would have been my kind of girl because she was non-threatening, highly original in her thought process, creative, alternative, smart, and so adorably cute you could almost commit the accidental crime of squeezing all of the life out of her with overbearing affection. Had I been a more interesting, original and talented guy and did not come across in the least bit creepy, then perhaps, had we ever met, she might have let me be her boyfriend and then a few years later when she recorded her masterpiece, Ys, I could have had the honour of performing the baritone male vocal accompaniment part on "Only Skin" which, due to it's tumbling and vibrant nature, is my personal highlight on this record which is packed full of highlights, so packed, in fact, that there is no room for choruses or traditional song structures as we were used to on The Milk-Eyed Mender. Instead we are treated to unravelling musical fairy tales which possess an undercurrent of


Demon of the Fall
March 2nd 2024


39012 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, read that bizarre fantasy before. Good pasta.

Now stop messing around and check this Phero. Legitimately mind-blowing / bewildering first-listen experience and (I imagine) a keeper

Pheromone
March 2nd 2024


21850 Comments


Demon ! I checked yesterday as I was working and so absolutely nothing went in

I have just made a coffee and am about to check this proper good this time

Demon of the Fall
March 2nd 2024


39012 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Phew, there’s me thinking you were all talk no trousers

I’m listening to Divers right now in your honour (this is better, but Divers is excellent too. Have One On Me is remarkably consistent also, despite being crazy long!)

fogza
March 2nd 2024


10224 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Lmao phero with the crazypasta

DoofDoof
March 2nd 2024


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm still really embarrassed I wrote it in the first place

zakalwe
March 2nd 2024


41933 Comments


Good God

Nikkolae
March 3rd 2024


6909 Comments


lmao did u really doof?

Demon of the Fall
March 3rd 2024


39012 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

we all do daft things when we’ve had a few bevies

GhandhiLion
March 3rd 2024


17793 Comments


It's a rym review by ozzystyles

https://rateyourmusic.com/music-review/ozzystylez/joanna-newsom/ys/6174001

zakalwe
March 3rd 2024


41933 Comments


I’d have hated this bird at school

DoofDoof
March 3rd 2024


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Always harping on?

zakalwe
March 3rd 2024


41933 Comments


A boff with an intolerable uppityness

DoofDoof
March 3rd 2024


17294 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Cutie but snooty



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