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- Summary: Steve Albini, Jim O'Rourke and Van Dyke Parks lend a hand on this five-song full-length from the folk singer-songwriter.
- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk
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And there was a booming above you that night, black airplanes flew over the sea. And they were lowing and shifting like beached whales, shelled... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 35
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Mixed: 4 out of 35
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Negative: 1 out of 35
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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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For the 56 minutes that "Ys" lasts, all the doubts evaporate. Every elaboration has a purpose, every labyrinthine melodic detour feels necessary rather than contrived. Tempting as it is to fixate on the gilded reputations of her associates, this is unequivocally Newsom’s album.
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While Ys is ridiculously overwritten, over-performed and self-contained, her fables always sublimate into the hot fog of real emotions just before they calcify.
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MojoIt is Newsom's voice that provides the stunning balm to bind this strange beauty together. [Dec 2006, p.118]
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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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She has issued a treasure. She has floored us again.
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It's like being stuck in the seat next to a chatty, batshit backwoods pixie for an 18-hour plane ride.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 151 out of 202
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Mixed: 13 out of 202
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Negative: 38 out of 202
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Dec 11, 2010
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ChristinaTDec 9, 2006
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aldoaNov 14, 2006rolling stone is the dumbest publication on earth.
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DarneeQAug 24, 2007
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JaredB.Nov 29, 2006
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PaulLFeb 10, 2007
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AaronSNov 15, 2006
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