Re: Joanna Newsom - Divers (2015)

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:38 pm

Ozymandian indeed.

A quietly but completely gripping narrative set against an almost Giallo-style thriller soundtrack.

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:40 pm

If this was 30 minutes long I'd still listen to it all the way through.

Sublime.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 18, 2020 7:41 pm

Track 8 - Same Old Man.

by Guest Mon May 18, 2020 7:41 pm

8: Same Old Man.

Is this about you?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 18, 2020 7:41 pm

Her voice is getting weirder.

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:41 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:8: Same Old Man.

Is this about you?

Wendi?

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:42 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Her voice is getting weirder.

This is normal.

She got polyps on her vocal chords after her first three albums and had to retrain her voice.

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:43 pm

Banjo and ominous Moog.

What's not to like.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 18, 2020 7:43 pm

Track 9 - You Will Not Take My Heart Alive.

by Guest Mon May 18, 2020 7:43 pm

Short one

9: You Will Not Take My Heart Alive

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:45 pm

This is a Joanna Newsom Stevie Wonder-style number.

All instruments played by Ms. N.

blush

by Guest Mon May 18, 2020 7:47 pm

This song finished a minute ago.

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:47 pm

This track has the weirdest most opaque of the album's lyrics.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon May 18, 2020 7:47 pm

Track 10 - A Pin-Light Bent.

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:47 pm

Nightjar wrote:This track has the weirdest most opaque of the album's lyrics.

In martial wind, and in clarion rain
We minced into battle, wincing in pain;
Not meant for walking, backs bound in twine:
Not angel or devil
But level, in time

by Guest Mon May 18, 2020 7:47 pm

10 - A Pin-Light Bent

Quiet start.

by Guest Mon May 18, 2020 7:48 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:This track has the weirdest most opaque of the album's lyrics.

In martial wind, and in clarion rain
We minced into battle, wincing in pain;

Bold, very bold.

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:48 pm

This is a slow-burner.

It burns and burns.

It smoulders...

bananafire

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:50 pm

Her lyrics are outrageously ambitious...

My life comes and goes
My life comes and goes
Short flight, free rows:
I lie down and doze

My life came and went
My life came and went
Short flight; free descent
Poor flight attendant

But the sky, over the ocean!
And the ocean, skirting the city!
And the city, bright as a garden
(when the garden woke to meet me)

From that height was a honeycomb
Made of light from those funny homes, intersected:
Each enclosed, anelectric and alone

In our lives is a common sense
That relies on the common fence
That divides, and attends
But provides scant defense
From the Great Light that shine through a pin-hole
When the pin-light calls itself Selfhood
And the Selfhood inverts on a mirror
In an Amora Obscura

But it's mine. Or, at least, it's lent
And my life, until the time is spent
Is a pin-light, bent
It's a pin-light, bent

by Nightjar Mon May 18, 2020 7:51 pm

It's an absolute and utter mystery why she's married to that idiot.

He must 'make her laugh'. Colbert

And have an enormous *****. asp

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