{"id":650,"date":"2010-02-23T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=650"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T17:10:37","slug":"joanna-newsom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/23\/joanna-newsom-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Newsom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/newsom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"newsom\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/newsom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"newsom\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>She\u2019s the oft-misunderstood, oft-hyperbolized neo-folk darling who defies categorization due to her unconventional instrumentation (harp), more unconventional voice (squeaky) and still more unconventional disregard for standard pop\/rock song structure and subject matter. Her first album, <em>The Milk-Eyed Mender<\/em>, was a compendium of short songs about yarn, seashells, devotion, regret, and imagination. Her second album, <em>Ys<\/em>, was a five-song collection where the shortest track clocked in at 7:17 and the longest at 16:53, each of them reveling in a rich orchestral background produced by Townes Van Zandt, each of them long enough to fully develop Newsom\u2019s poetic ideas, against a landscape of leafless trees, talking circus animals, and astronomy lessons.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/joanna_newsom_cov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-652\" title=\"joanna_newsom_cov\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/joanna_newsom_cov-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"joanna_newsom_cov\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Now we get <em>Have One On Me<\/em>, billed as a triple album (available in LP and CD), out today on the label that\u2019s been with her from the start, Drag City. Earlier this month, three tracks were prereleased on the Drag City site, and they were awesome (\u201c\u201881,\u201d \u201cGood Intentions Paving Company,\u201d and \u201cKingfisher\u201d). I especially loved \u201cGood Intentions Paving Company\u201d for its soulful edge, with the trademark piano riffs, backing vocals and organ of a previous era.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a while to come to grips with the fact that Joanna Newsom is going to be super famous, now. I\u2019m OK with that, though I\u2019m not looking forward to the expanding criticism she\u2019ll face for things like her visibility in the fashion industry or her famous comedian boyfriend. When people come across a young, prodigious musician early in her career, they tend to make her in the image they want, and they want her to stay twee and nubile and childlike. Remember, folks: Joanna Newsom doesn\u2019t owe us anything.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to <em>Have One on Me<\/em> in its entirety on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=123981491&amp;sc=nl&amp;cc=mn-20100223\">NPR Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\">dragcity.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s the oft-misunderstood, oft-hyperbolized neo-folk darling who defies categorization due to her unconventional instrumentation (harp), more unconventional voice (squeaky) and still more unconventional disregard for standard pop\/rock song structure and subject matter. Her first album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, was a compendium of short songs about yarn, seashells, devotion, regret, and imagination. Her second album, Ys, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[485,662],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-joanna-newsom","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}