He just gets better and better. If only he'd made an album like this in 1993 when he was still being marketed. Everyone should own this record.
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It's good, but not quite in the 5-star region a lot of reviews seem to place it in, don't you think? (Unlike Different Class.) Certainly a lot better than late period Pulp. I think the 25 or so minute wait for Cunts Are Still Ruling The World is a bit much. They told me in Fopp that they'd had a directive making sure they didn't leave the CD on play till the end and upset the public, as if any music store is going to have 25 mins of nothing! Need to listen to oit quite a bit more, and check the words more, some of which strike me as great, but of course one mustn't read and listen, as Jarvis instructs on the CD body text itself. The old wag. I agree, actually, it gets in the way of the song, to some extent.miss buenos aires wrote:Jarvis -- FINALLY! Loving it.
I find her voice totally unlistenable - sorryOtis Westinghouse wrote:
Joanna Newsom's Ys. Bought this on the strength of hearing one track on Hype Machine and the rave reviews, which had me salivating, e.g. this. Am playing now, and indeed it is stunningly original. Batty as a fruitcake, but engrossingly beautiful, with eccentric but very impressive singing. The Van Dyke Parks arrangements are fabulous, the harp playing too. The 5 songs run to 55 mins, the lyrics require 24 pages. I love the idea of a record it's going to take ages to really get my head around, especially when it's so unique and hard to categorise.
Who will like this? Lots of people, it seems, but probably the people here who go for a combination of Kate Bush and Bjork would get very excited, and maybe a sprinkling of Anthony and the Johnsons. So, eccentric, individual and very good singing, intense, personal world view struggling to express itself through very original music. Having jsst listened to the end, my first thought is 'I want to hear that again!'