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Universal acclaim- based on 373 Ratings
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Positive: 309 out of 373
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Mixed: 16 out of 373
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Negative: 48 out of 373
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ElliottMNov 12, 2006Best album of 2006, hands down.
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leirisNov 13, 2006A truly wonderful and unique album. Van Dyke Parks influence is apparent and works extremely well with Newsom
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johnwNov 13, 2006And once again this collection of reviews shows us what total retards the people at Rolling Stone magazine are. They have lost their connection with challenging music a long time ago. As for joanna newsom : record of the year.
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MattNov 13, 2006
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MichaelENov 13, 2006This is one of the albums that will be good company for a lifetime! I wouldn´t call it a voice I ´m falling in love with too easily, but her singing and storytelling is simply fantastic!
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AndrewCNov 13, 2006It's absolutely astonishing. Even after forty plays, it knocks me out every time.
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JoshSNov 13, 2006Incredible, best album of 2006.
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MattD.Nov 13, 2006Less grating than The Milk-Eyed Mender, but it's without personality. Sounds like a bad soundtrack to a fantasy movie. If you want something different, try Nellie McKay or Loreena McKennitt.
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umbertopNov 13, 2006beautiful but not so beautiful
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JeremyPNov 14, 2006Personally, my favourite album ever. I'm so happy I heard it months before it was released so that I was free of any influence
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KevinCNov 14, 2006This album is without question the best thing I've heard in at least a few years. It's mind-blowingly ambitious and ornately beautiful. I wouldn't expect anything less from Joanna Newsom, this is a perfect album and a stunning masterpiece.
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billNov 14, 2006Astounding! Between Joanna and Van Dyke, this si nothing short of a masterpiece! The more you play it, thyee more it grows on you. Congrats Joanna!!
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PaulFNov 14, 2006Spell binding! Album of the year.
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JonLNov 15, 2006
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GrutNov 15, 2006Her first album was amazing, this one is just crap. Must be the influence of her new buddy Devendra Banhart. Can someone tell this guy not to talk to other artists ?
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AntonioBNov 15, 2006Rolling stone dropped the ball. Solid arrangements as the songs meander with a purpose and let her voice shine.
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HelenNov 15, 2006We have seen the birth of a true modern day masterpiece.
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nightchapelkNov 15, 2006awful. 50+ minutes long and she is singing for 48 of those minutes. I would love to hear the version sans vocals.
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SanNNov 17, 2006On first listen, I'm thinking it might be the best of the year. That spot is currently held by TV On The Radio for me, but it's close.
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PlatePlateNov 17, 2006On the verge of replacing In The Aeroplane Over The Sea for me, album of the year, Joanna Newsom is a demigod, wow, i have listened to this album more in the last few weeks than any album this year in total
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ZachJNov 17, 2006One of the more groundbreaking albums to be released this year, I think. Takes a while to settle in (possibly moreso than usual; I say this because most times people follow such a comment with, "Just like any great album.") Once it clicks though...incredible.
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DanielONov 18, 2006J Publius said: "This will be on every critics top 10 list, and nobody will listen to it for more than five minutes." Actually I haven't been able to put it down for over a week. Grows with every listen. It's the same for most people I've talked to who liked it.
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samfNov 21, 2006stunning
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DanielWNov 21, 2006One of the finest albums ever written. Opening track "Emily" is one of the best songs ever written. One must be generous and open-minded when approaching Y's, but the rewards are excellent. At times, her lyrics can even be life-changing. Definitely pick this one up.
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skyweaponskyNov 21, 2006This is a real dream
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GuyHNov 23, 2006Anyone commenting on this album should have the patience to listen from start to finish at least 10 or so times... Well it isn't conventional pop song writing, it is hard to get a hold of at first but your patience will be rewarded. Ys is stunning - Only Skin and Sawdust together make up the most compelling 30 minutes of music released this year. Yes, this album is that good.
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KacyKNov 23, 2006I previewed this on iTunes and didn't like it. In particular, Joanna's vocals. A couple of days later, I purchased it and after 2 or 3 listens, I'm fairly smitten with it. I now find her vocals charming and sincere. Beautiful harp and arrangements. Wonderfully escapist.
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KenHNov 24, 2006This is by far the most overrated album of the year. Just awful
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markpNov 26, 2006Astonishinly beautiful, albeit a tad bjorkish and kate bushish, but once you over that, lyrics in hand, it is a bold, fresh, gigantic musical piece. Well done to that young californian girl!!
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TedB.Nov 27, 2006Newsom should have stuck to voice work in commercials and cartoons rather than thinking she could sing.
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Awards & Rankings
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It’s to her great credit that Newsom (literally) plucks artistic triumph from the jaws of cloying whimsy.
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It may well be the most off-putting album released this year. After playing it, there seems every chance it is the also the most astonishing.
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Newsom has managed to lessen the twee factor of her last record... in the process crafting an album as bewitching as it is odd.