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...contain words like Tulgeywood and sings in a high-pitched warble that manages to sound both beautiful and pained at the same time. It took the 28-year-old songwriter four years to release Have One on Me, the three-disc follow-up to her critically acclaimed sophomore album Ys. Newsom talks to TIME about the process of creating a monstrous album, why she wishes she was a better composer and what happened when she lost her voice. (Watch "Out Now: Spoon, Vampire Weekend and VV Brown...
...favorite song on there is "Good Intentions Paving Co." but it feels a little bit poppier than your other work. Actually, a lot of the album does. I think part of it was a reaction to the previous record, Ys. The experience of making Ys was quite intense and formal for me. I paid such close attention to every tiny little detail - the syntax, the lyrics, the distribution of syllabic entropies, the interior and exterior rhyme patterns - there was a lot of activity and it felt a little frenetic. When I was done with it all, I was pretty tired...
...YS JOANNA NEWSOM...
...whom it is impossible to be neutral: you either love her or you hate her. Her debut, “The Milk-Eyed Mender,” divided listeners with its tinkling harp, surreal lyrics, and, above all, Newsom’s lilting, often childlike, voice. “Ys,” her sophomore effort, only accentuates her most challenging qualities—and in doing so achieves perfection. A mere five songs in length, “Ys” nonetheless stretches to almost an hour. Each song becomes a fairy tale, allowing Newsom to experiment with words...
...Ys have used music to connect with our parents in a way our parents couldn't connect with theirs. But that intergenerational bonding has meant rock can never be an expression of solidarity for my generation the way it was for my father's. We came to our first concerts already divided into subcultures, armed with the different rock educations our parents gave us. Musical taste became our primary means of distinguishing ourselves from one another. In college most indie-rock kids respected hip-hop, and most hip-hop kids respected indie rock, but there was rarely any question...