JOANNA NEWSOM - Y's (Drag City)

by Tommy G

Rarely does an album so unique reach out to so many different listeners, in Y’s Joanna Newsom has created what will surely surmount to be a timeless classic, each song a beautifully twisted adult nursery rhyme that tugs on the heartstrings.

Each word that oozes from Miss Newsoms vocal chords ripples and vibrates with emotion and other-worldly charm, each caress of her harp sending shivers down your spine and twinkling moonlight falling upon you. These are not songs but stories dramatically put to life, stories that have been inside you all your life but without being ordered into words, Joanna makes sense of all the gibberish that floats around your mind, casts her magical light on it and lets you dance in its fragile beauty. Simply wonderful.

Low - Drums and Guns

SJ Esau - Wrong Faced Cat Food Collapse

Jesu - Conqueror

The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America

Isis – In The Absence of Truth

Anaal Nathrakh – Escharton

Joanna Newsom – Y’s

The Berzerker – Animosity

Tom Waits – Orphans

 

 

 
 

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