Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me | CD review

(Drag City)The inlay to Pulp's Different Class memorably told listeners not to read the lyrics while listening to the album. For Joanna Newsom's third record, each song's lyric is so long, beautifully phrased – "Even the ghosts huddled up for warmth," she whispers on Autumn – and dense with detail that it's difficult to keep up without study aids. Suffice to say, not many records in 2010 will contain phrases like "faultlessly etiolated". The music, as anyone who devoured 2006's Ys ...

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