“When Joanna Newsom followed her intricate and exhausting 2006 album, Ys, with a live EP that took a pun, Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band, for its name, some fans were puzzled. A joke? From Newsom, the harpist-poet with the chirpy voice? The one who'd spent chunks of her 56-minute opus detailing the differences between a meteor, a meteorite and a meteoroid and describing the drowning of a broken”
