I got my hands on the new record, and it’s complex and sprawling and I have still not gotten to know it as well as I should have, which makes me love it even more. A girl doesn’t have to give up all her secrets the first time she’s asked, you know.
Watch her performances. Here we have the rare female artist who is allowed to look weird and sound silly while making art. So much of female artistry is spent on making sure the whole thing comes across as sexy that a person can forget how silly and triumphant singers can look when they’re really pushing their voices and their ideas to the limit.
I’ll be in Nashville at the end of the month to see Joanna Newsom at the Mercy Lounge. I am excited to see a harp virtuoso in person. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.