Joanna Newsom: Ys

Ys

Review by John Brainlove

Ys, the second full-length album by prodigious folk musician Joanna Newsom, sounds like it has come from some dimly remembered past - like old wives’ tales, these autobiographical myths are built from grains of truth and wisdom, a vivid, living, textured account of a memory glimpsed or forgotten, like a dream upon waking or a fable from a faraway place written a long time ago...»