Joanna Newsom just released a triple album, Have One on Me, on which each disc has but six songs and most of the songs are in the 6 to 10 minute range. That's a lot of music and I've only listened to about 20 minutes of it, but included in those 20 minutes were 3 minutes and 51 seconds of bliss in the form of the song "'81." I heard that this album would be more straightforward and less weird than Newsom's previous work and it seems to be so far. "'81" is one of the few conventionally-lengthed songs and boy is it pretty. Newsom removes her quirkiness from the foreground and just gets down to business. Her voice sounds a lot better too.
Bottom Line: Listen to "'81."
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