I first heard Joanna's voice during senior year of high school in 2004. Peace, Plum, Pear was among a shuffle of new discoveries that period (mostly indie rock) but by far in its own category. Until this day, the line What was golden, now gray, and I'm suddenly shy" still hits a weak spot in the inner girl that I keep inside. Despite the sounding barriers that's kept people away from Joanna Newsom's music, I am only more in love with her storytelling with all its interwoven obscurities, ciphers, and intimacy.
My favorite songs:
1. Emily
2. In California
3. Soft as Chalk
4. Sawdust & Diamonds
5. Sprout and the Bean
Drag City recently released her newest video, Sapokanika, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Joanna sings and strolls down the streets of Greenwich Village, streets that I know and walk everyday. Besides its sweet and charming melody, the song is coated with an eerie sentiment to the ghosts of the village. The history and burial grounds is no secret. Yet how strange we go about our lives knowing that these graves tucked under our feet is part of the scenery.
My favorite songs:
1. Emily
2. In California
3. Soft as Chalk
4. Sawdust & Diamonds
5. Sprout and the Bean
Drag City recently released her newest video, Sapokanika, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Joanna sings and strolls down the streets of Greenwich Village, streets that I know and walk everyday. Besides its sweet and charming melody, the song is coated with an eerie sentiment to the ghosts of the village. The history and burial grounds is no secret. Yet how strange we go about our lives knowing that these graves tucked under our feet is part of the scenery.
Where all the 20,000 attending your footfall
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
And the records they left are cryptic at best
Lost in obsolescence
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
With any fluorescence
This coming winter, I will be locked in my room untangling her new album.
