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NPR’s The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women
141. Joanna Newsom
Ys (Drag City, 2006)“Any fan of Joanna Newsom knows that to love her is to defend her. Her acolytes find ourselves defining her by what she is not: Not a waif, not an ethereal woodland sprite, not even really a folk musician. This habitual defensiveness is most common among music critics, who, in our eagerness to subvert a popular narrative, may have inadvertently kept it alive. But the truth is that Newsom long ago shook off the easy and obvious tropes that she initially accrued as a folk-adjacent female harpist. And that transformation began with her sophomore album, Ys. “Ys” is the name of a mythical Breton city that sank into the sea, and Ys is as mysterious and enchanting as its namesake. Across five sprawling epics, it’s all there — Newsom’s arresting warble, her dazzling musicianship, her exquisite melodic sense — but Ys is grander and more ambitious than her previous work. Composer Van Dyke Parks provides radiant orchestrations for material that is as dense and rewarding as any literary text. Newsom’s medievalist predilections notwithstanding, Ys is a deeply contemporary work, intent on enfolding us in a world of the artist’s own invention. In doing so, it shows us not what Newsom isn’t, but what she remarkably, audaciously is.“
—Amelia Mason (WBUR)
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