“On her fourth album, Divers, Joanna Newsom comes down in size if not scope. A love letter in the form of a reckoning with death, Divers deals with making tangible the huge mass of impending doom about the loss of love. You know, the small stuff. It's a gorgeous record, full of her usual harp wilyness and baroque rhythms.”
“Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom's latest record is equally beautiful and conceptual.”
“"We mean to stop, in increments, but can't commit/We post and sit, in impotence/The harder you hit, the deeper the dent," Joanna Newsom spits on "Leaving The City" — a storm system of consonance and assonance that morphs between harp-led Renaissance courtly dance and social-media-damning, Mellotron-amped rap rock. The California-bred singer-songwriter may represent like an ambassador for the Socie”
