{"product_id":"joanna-newsom-divers-rock-1","title":"Joanna Newsom - Divers ((Rock))","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood heavens — five years go by — what\u003cbr\u003ecan one do? Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with\u003cbr\u003ediversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier\u003cbr\u003eballads, narrated from parts unknown; a family of polysemic song-sets; a\u003cbr\u003eparanomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies; a\u003cbr\u003efanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay\u003cbr\u003eand love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones\u003cbr\u003eand Moogs, clavichords and celestas—and of course the harp, thrumming its\u003cbr\u003ethrenodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of\u003cbr\u003eShepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned\u003cbr\u003eSimulacreage... The music of Divers is a wonder of\u003cbr\u003econsidered arrangements — a taut line, threaded with the pearls of passed and\u003cbr\u003epassing times...a round, a chant, an incantation...a ray of light diverted\u003cbr\u003eeleven ways, into eleven songs that striate, in chromatic collusion, their\u003cbr\u003esimultaneous arc...a span that takes in lifetimes, but is immaculately\u003cbr\u003esequenced for telescoped brevity. The music speeds with dissociative dread over\u003cbr\u003emontaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight among the collaged quotations and\u003cbr\u003esepia-toned codices of Popular Song; it ambles its carefree citational course\u003cbr\u003ethrough the public domain and down into the dustier corners of municipal parks,\u003cbr\u003eto lionize infamous airmen and anonymous Dutch Masters, to mourn pearl divers\u003cbr\u003eand Poorwills, and to elegize the ineluctable tragedy of relativity — a tragedy\u003cbr\u003eof parochial time, anecdotal time, dubious time... At the center of the mythos\u003cbr\u003eand the maelstrom is the woman. Divers reminds us that Newsom is\u003cbr\u003ea melodist, above all — an acolyte of melody and beauty in form, a crackerjack\u003cbr\u003eof emotional truth conveyed with undiluted immediacy. “The Things I Say” seems\u003cbr\u003ea naked admission, after the epic swales of war and peace that precede it, and\u003cbr\u003eyet this sudden moment of piano and voice falls seamlessly into the flow,\u003cbr\u003ebuffeted by the haunting winds of a musical saw and time-slipping reversal at\u003cbr\u003ethe finish. ...so that, at the aortic confluence of such a complexity of\u003cbr\u003estrings and wires, winking beneath the lacquered layers of instrumental nacre,\u003cbr\u003ebiding quietly between the ranges ofrhapsodic arrangement—including those by Nico Muhly, Ryan Francesconi, Dave\u003cbr\u003eLongstreth, Dan Cantrell,\u003cbr\u003eand Newsom herself — there lies an intimacy seldom achieved, and simply\u003cbr\u003eheard. Divers dives forth with a pure love and respect for the traditions\u003cbr\u003eand mysteries of man, such that we can feel the surge of life itself passing\u003cbr\u003eover our bones as we hear the songs and sounds, the playe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Joanna Newsom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42655054299276,"sku":"X47XYZ-ZN7R-13","price":12.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/8349\/files\/joanna-newsom-divers_4B13i.jpg?v=1713569803","url":"https:\/\/redyetirecords.com\/products\/joanna-newsom-divers-rock-1","provider":"Red Yeti Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}