Advantages: Highly individualistic Disadvantages: won't be to everyones tastes
...lavish 32 page insert - Ys is a mixture of folky solo and sophisticated orchestrated tracks - the production of the album is absolutely superb.
The outer cardboard sleeve features a reproduction of a (somewhat flattering) acrylic portrait in Renaissance style, heaped with allegorical symbolism - to me it resembles a mirror image parody of Albrecht Durer's 1498 self portrait - but I'm probably being too clever for my own good there!
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Advantages: Beautiful sounds, beautiful lyrics and a much needed rest from over-produced pop music Disadvantages: Newsom's voice may not be appealing to all listeners
This is a truely beautiful album and shows Newsom's musical advancement from her earlier albums.
Throughout this album, Newsom plays her harp brilliantly, providing a beautiful, melodic background to her sometimes haunting voice. This CD only contains five tracks but each one is quite long and beautiful in its own way.
Joanna Newsom's voice and style may not be appealing to some people, however this album has seen great advancement in the control ...
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If the debut album from Joanna Newsom, 2004's The Milk-Eyed Mender, suggested there was
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no-one in music quite like this elfin San Franciscan harpist, its follow-up Ys sees that gulf of difference become a universe of possibilities. Recorded by veteran ...
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Personnel include: Joanna Newsom (vocals, harp); Grant Geissman (electric guitar); Lee
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Sklar (electric bass); Don Heffington (percussion).It shouldn't be a surprise that an artist as stridently unconventional as Joanna Newsom would make a second album ...
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