her music is awesome. You don't find to many positive reveiws for her though.
lol, i'd have to agree with that, especially with her older albums. Milk-eyed mender was pretty good, but i think she has more control over her voice on newer ones like Ys.

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.

loz, last I saw, I had the impression that you were a hata!

incredible how someone who looks so pretty can sound so silly... I better not check out cocorosie pics, I guess.

I'd willingly shave my balls and wear a pink tutu for the rest of my life if I could receive a blowjob from that pulchritudinous mouth.

excellent word.

and I agree.

Oh yeah, Ys is good. It's all I've heard.

It has.

She is the most amazing thing EVER.

A revival to this thread.

I downloaded "Milk-eyed mender" a week or two back and it has already got a few run throughs. Joanna + Harp = Awesomeness :) I just can't decide about that voice, sometimes I feel like hurting someone when hearing it and sometimes it is beautiful. Perplexed. Never the less, an album all should check out, if they have not previously.

that's actually natural for her though, but hey if she didn't take on this uniqueness someone else would and it'd no longer be unique so she went with it, and her songs are actually very good. it was less creepy after i watched her music vid for "Sprout and the Bean"

Here, try this woman:

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Ys has managed to creep into my all time fave list.

it's a grower, but once you know it by heart each re-listen is absolutely stunning.

Aye. Ys is utterly enchanting. And she's yet to make a bad album...

I prfer The Milk Eyed Mender. She can do no wrong though. <3

Really can't get past the voice. Can't make it through one song.

it took me some time to appreciate her

the only thing i dislike about Ys is the rather heavy-handed Van **** Parks' arrangements

I much prefer Milk-Eyed Mender to Ys, it just seems more natural, and I prefer the simpler arrangements. Plus the lyrics are hilarious.

Totally me too! I really wanted to appreciate her growth as a song writer but really it was her imperfections and her simplicity that I enjoyed in the first place.

well, i just got The Milk-Eyed Mender to see how it compares to Ys

will hear it later

The Milk-Eyed Meder is easier to get into and has some brilliant songs, but I think I prefer Ys. I currently prefer both of them to Have One on Me.

ok have heard The Milk-Eyed Mender

generally like the simple arrangements, but i think her voice is much harsher here

Someone's described her voice as sounding like that of a child's and, I have to say, I thought it was pretty accurate! It's still very interesting to listen to so I don't think it should be taken in a negative way. Just like the myriad of other differently sounding artists like Bowie and Kate Bush, it helps make her stand out.

i'm so glad there's a thread on her, albeit one that hasn't received any attention in over a year!

gotta say, i can't get over this woman. i agree that she sounds a bit like a child, but i also think she kinda looks at the world like a child does, and describes it with the vocabulary and elegance of someone who's been alive for 500 years. i'd actually never heard of her until this past summer. she just randomly came up on a cocorosie radio station i'd created on jango... i was inking that mandala that i posted in the art thread actually. it was her song Emily. i probably listened to it 40 or 50 times during the process of inking that art piece. ugh... i can't describe her... it's like she just makes me completely abandon any desire to intellectually approach her work and personality... it's just so beautiful to be present for the experiencing of someone so okay with themselves.

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Does anyone here like her? I enjoyed her album called Ys, but havent got to check out the 2 other albums she released though. She talks a lot in the songs, which is something I kinda like.

i'm all about this lady. she's super talented. a little bit crazy... and super hot!

there is already a thread on her though.

http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...na-newsom.html

Created in 2005....but no problem, this thread can be locked if the moderators want to. I'll go post in that thread now.

I love Joanna Newsom's voice. She also talks a lot in the songs, which is something I really like, and its pretty reminiscent of rap in my opinion too. She's also a great harpist too. Anyone else agree with me about these kind of things?

At first I wasn't into the voice but hot dang, I'm so on board with it that it's crazy now. There's real soul and emotion in the voice in a lot of the songs, it's insecure and fragile but wise and strong. I don't hear a female harpist putting on a weird voice, I hear a unique storyteller who emotes these incredibly vivid folk tales just using her vocal timbre and the pluckings of her harp.

I can definitely understand people not liking her voice but I'm past that now, I absolutely love it. And her.

"We sailed away on a winters day, with fates as malleable as clay. But ships are fallible I say..." - Genius..