sleepy jack

Wow, I'd always been a casual fan of Joanna Newsom but I did find her voice grating after too long but listening to her now it's amazing. The music is so atmospheric in a dark room with just headphones (and a computer) the mood it sets is beautiful, the strings and her otherworldly voice and the world she paints with imagery words is stunning. "Emily I saw you last night by the river / I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water / Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever / In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror / Anyhow I sat by your side by the water/ You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger / Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiads loosed in December / I promised you I‘d set them to verse so I'd always remember." Absolutely stunning.

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