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Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band EP
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0781484033622
Format: EP
Label: Drag City
Manufacturer: Drag City
MPN: 336
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Drag City
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Studio: Drag City
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Rating:  - Stunning
I cried the first time I listened to this version of "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie." I feel so lucky for the opportunity to listen to Joanna's voice get better and better and better through the years. The way she sings the line in this song, "And I am watching you/ And you are starry, starry, starry..." has always gotten to me, and with her improved vocal abilities here she manages to add a new degree of touching nuance to this favorite of moments. Give it a listen, I think you'll see what I mean. ... Read More
Rating:  - Great companion to the "YS" album
Joanna Newsome is not for everyone, that's for sure, basically Joanna singing with harp, and sparse other instruments. Her 2006 "YS" album created quite a stir, though. (It was my 17 yr. daughter who introduced me to her, incidentally). This live EP was recorded on the YS Fall 06 tour.
"EP" (3 tracks, 24 min.) brings a new song, "Colleen", which is pretty much in the vein of the "YS" album. Next is "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie", from "The Milk-Eyed Mender" album, in a slightly altered ... Read More
Rating: - lovely, deceptively simple..
for me, this new ep makes up for the pretensions of the Ys album; the band is amazing, and newsom has never sounder better.
i hope this bodes well for the future, for one of my favorite artists.
Rating: - Addictive Beware!
It took me almost 2 years to warm up to her first album MIlk Eyed Mender. My brother in law would play it over and over again when we went to visit. Then after one of our visits I couldn't shake the songs from my head and I had to hear them! I was hooked! This ep is also addictive! Newsom's songs have an optimistic and other worldly elegance that is missing in mainstream music culture. These songs are especially endearing, ( is it the band accompaniment?) and I especially love the mix of melodies ... Read More
Rating:  - I Wouldn't Get Too Excited About This
The new song, "Colleen," is, lyric-wise, alarmingly close to boilerplate dorm-room Tori Amosity. (The only Joanna-ish touch is that the song's awakening-to-her-oppression heroine seems to be a were-whale.)
Both "Milk-Eyed Mender" and "Ys" have a muscularity to the playing and singing that's absent here--the arrangements (performed with a small acoustic combo) are much more noodly, and Joanna sings in a more "controlled" (i.e, less yelpy) manner.
For me this EP lacks the loopy imagination ... Read More
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