Category: Joanna Newsom

In honor of the 10th anniversary of Joanna Newsom’s landmark third album, the sprawling epic Have One On Me, we examine its knack for finitizing the infinite and turning “the rote and rotten universe into something comprehensible and resounding.”

To say that Have One On Me , Joanna Newsom’s new two-hour triple-disc, is a challenging listen is an understatement. It’s a well-wrought record to be sure, and Newsom’s songwriting–both lyrically and structurally–are more […]

Listening to Joanna Newsom has always required certain things: patience, trust, an ability to overlook cosmetic flaws in favor of the more complete picture, more patience. Her precedent releases–2004’s Milk-Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys –required […]