***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received an 8.5 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork. "Good heavens—five years go by—what can one do? Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with diversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier ballads, narrated from parts unknown; a family of polysemic song-sets; a paranomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies; a fanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay and love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones and Moogs, clavichords and celestas—and of course the harp, thrumming its threnodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of Shepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned Simulacreage. The music of Divers is a wonder of considered arrangements—a taut line, threaded with the pearls of passed and passing times... a round, a chant, an incantation... a ray of light diverted eleven ways, into eleven songs that striate, in chromatic collusion, their simultaneous arc... a span that takes in lifetimes, but is immaculately sequenced for telescoped brevity. The music speeds with dissociative dread over montaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight among the collaged quotations and sepia-toned codices of Popular Song..."
CD $13.75
10/23/2015
2XLP $27.85
10/23/2015
MC $8.50
10/23/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! JOANNA NEWSOM fans: don’t look now, but Joanna’s about to let her hair down—and that’s a considerable task these days. Of course, to the demure Mme. Newsom, this 125 minutes-worth of songs is nothing more than a new album. Through the course of Have One On Me’s eighteen songs, Joanna visits upon us ditties, weepies, court dances, rump-bumpers, epics and moments of wraparound fantasia. Have One On Me—ah, have three, they're small!
3XCD $19.95
02/23/2010
3XLP $33.95
02/23/2010
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The classic second album from singer/songwriter and harpist JOANNA NEWSOM. Five extended tracks conceived with harp and voice, tracked by STEVE ALBINI, and then meticulously arranged by VAN DYKE PARKS and Newsom over several months. The album features strings, woodwinds, and brass, as well as dulcimer, marimba, various percussive instruments, banjo, mandolin, electric bass (provided by LEE SKLAR), electric guitar (GRANT GEISSEMAN), and accordion (played by Parks). Mixed by JIM O’ROURKE.
CD $13.75
11/14/2006
2XLP $32.75
11/14/2006
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The official debut album from gifted singer, songwriter, and harpist JOANNA NEWSOM. Twelve engaging tracks rooted in the folk of the 1960s and the current bluegrass revival, but on a plane all its own. Whimsical themes meet with a playful approach, the harp's plucked beauty and Newsom's one-of-a-kind vocal delivery.
LP $21.50
03/22/2004