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Universal acclaim- based on 157 Ratings
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Positive: 131 out of 157
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Mixed: 10 out of 157
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Negative: 16 out of 157
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Nov 29, 2021Joanna Newsom’s fourth full-length, Divers, haunts you like an unanswered question. That’s what makes it so engrossing. You don’t listen to it to figure out what it means. You play it to revel in the mystery of the songs and who, exactly, is the marvelous, mercurial creature singing them.
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Jun 6, 2020
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Jan 8, 2019It took several listens to really get into this album, as with any Joanna Newsom album, but I'm glad I invested the time because Divers is a real treat. It's beautifully arranged and beautifully sung. This is probably her best album in terms of what I'd be in the mood to listen to the most.
Standout tracks: Waltz of the 101st Lightborne, A Pin-Light Bent -
Jan 29, 2018I was highly anticipating the release of Joanna Newsom's next album, and my expectations were more than fulfilled. Another great one!
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Jul 30, 2017Divers is my favorite Joanna album to date. her lyricism is unparalleled, her orchestration is eternally breathtaking, her voice so powerful in its intricacy. check out Anecdotes, Sapokanikan, Waltz of the 101st Lightborne, The Things I Say and Time, As a Symptom if you wanna be truly blown away
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Sep 21, 2016
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Jan 18, 2016Brillint album from one of the best songwriters and musicians of our time. Joanna is always impressing with her beautiful melodies, lyrics and touching songs
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Jan 18, 2016Beautiful, touching, deep and incredible well written. Joanna never dissapoints, she is always showing amazing materials since her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender. But the most important, she always is reinventing herself, none of her albums look alike
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Jan 16, 2016Joanna seems to never dissapoint her fans. Divers is another masterpiece from one of the best lyricists of our generation. She continues to tell tales that never seem boring to me. I am always here to listen to what this incredible artist has to say
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Dec 29, 2015I love Joanna Newsom, and her new Album is just magical. every track is full of personality and delight as each track unfolds into this wonder and awe from a musical, lyrical and narrative standpoint. Go buy it, if u go to the website u can get a really coolbeanz*reference* Cassette version of the album.
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Dec 27, 2015
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Nov 4, 2015Excellent album, with just enough fairy dust to carry you to Neverland! Perhaps not the most musically original, but it is a powerful lyrical study of time, birth, life, and death.
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Nov 3, 2015Tried to like this, but I just can't. I'm not seeing what everyone is going gaga about. The music in the background is pretty.. Too bad the vocals sound like the lovechild of Fran Drescher and Lois Griffin.
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Oct 23, 2015
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Oct 23, 2015Reminds me of Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming'. This album, more so than her previous albums, grabs you and shakes you. It is experimental and while the songs seem to have such decidedly seperate sounds they are connected thematically, yet again, more so than her previous albums IMO. Not for better or for worse. I absolutely love Divers. Thank you, Joanna Newsom.
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Oct 23, 2015
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Nov 9, 2015Newsom is, obviously, not the first musician to get technically better at what she does while we’re looking on, and not the first, either, to elicit a twinge of regret from listeners who liked the rawer, wilder beginnings.... Divers hides its sting not in an unusual voice, but in its lyrical and musical complexity, and it’s a good trade after all.
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Nov 6, 2015Divers is another meticulous masterpiece from one of the songwriters of her time, an album that’ll still be spellbinding generations from now.
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Nov 5, 2015Divers takes another logical step, tightening up from the sprawling consistency of Have One on Me without quite tightening up enough to return to Mender’s folk-pop. This is easily Newsom’s most sumptuously arranged album, with a more eclectic palette of instruments than she’s previously employed.