Nov 20 2006

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Category: Life As I See It, Music In My Earsdryvetyme @ 3:29 pm

***UPDATE!!!***
Pitchfork Media wrote a review of a recent Joanna Newsom concert and you can read it here!

Yeah yeah yeah…. I know that I should get back to writing my reviews and I’m going to — it’s just been a busy month at work (& I’ve been collecting new material so that I can have things to actually review). But in the meantime, please enjoy this wonderful review from Pitchfork Media on the new album from a wonderfully deep, creative, & quirky woman — Joanna Newsom. And, after reading the review, you’re even more intrigued by Joanna, I’d like to point you to an interview that Pitchfork just conducted with her — it’s quite enjoyable!

Joanna Newsom
Ys
[Drag City; 2006]
Rating: 9.4

The biggest tragedy concerning Joanna Newsom’s brave, marvelous new album, Ys, would be if everyone sat there listening to it like bored middle-school kids at an amateur Shakespeare production. Continue reading “Joanna Newsom - Ys