Joanna Newsom, Environmentalists Sell Us HSBC Accounts

After the ascension of Devendra & Co., when I hear "freak folk" I hear "bank," so even though Joanna distanced herself from that "soulless, mindless, watered-down, image-obsessed, artless stab at John Fahey or Marc Bolan or Karen Dalton or Donovan or Vashti Bunyan," it's not surprising to find The Milk-Eyed Mender's closer "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" selling us checking accounts. It's a beautiful song, and the commercial tries to use it to a super emo degree. Still, it's not quite clear how...

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